Sentences with phrase «more discordant»

This becomes more and more discordant, something like listening to Little Richard sing «Ready Teddy» while gazing at the lunar surface.

Not exact matches

The mistakes may be only apparent and with a more sophisticated view may be seen as relatively concordant instead; that is why the identification of discordant contrasts is a useful procedure.

The more extreme, bizarre, fragmented, conflicting and discordant these ideologues become, the weaker their influence on politics.

Alone on the hill, with the dark sky and the stars above and the discordant world below, the narrator sinks more deeply into a contemplative state and, much like Stapledon's description of the Whiteheadian explorer, proceeds on a panoramic exploration, leaving his mountain top in a flight of imagination while staring at the stars.

It was threatened by internal decay and by the still aggressive Ottoman Turks, loyal Moslems, who were more powerful than any single European state and against whom, in spite of the frantic efforts of the Popes, discordant Western Europe would not unite.

What happens in a crisis, or in any less dramatic problem situation involving unexpected, puzzling or discordant experiences, is this sudden shift of control of an ongoing activity to a higher level in the many - leveled hierarchy, from a semi-automatic to a more conscious performance, because the decision to be made or the problem to be solved is beyond the competence of the automatic pilot and must be referred to higher quarters.

Amid the conditions of our confused world wherein many discordant voices blare and earthly wisdom often seems inadequate, is anything more needed?

But a perspective that takes the whole painting into account may be able to unify these discordant particulars into a wider and more intense harmony of contrasts.

The «reconciliation» aspect is more prevalent in metaphor of association, the «discordant or opposite qualities» more evident in metaphor of juxtaposition, but both are crucial.

With each singing in discordant tone, proving to be more Nigerian than the other while promoting tribal loyalties as against common sense of nationhood.

Bopp said they also found several characteristics that could predict if someone was more likely to be «discordant,» or likely to estimate travel times incorrectly.

Simply changing to more efficient light bulbs or HVAC systems would more than muffle the discordant thought of mall music's contribution to climate change.

News from a second study in discordant couples, suddenly announced the week before the Rome meeting began, made the draft guidelines potentially even more confusing.

We therefore analyzed CNVs in MZ twins discordant for T2D and filtered CNVs present in two or more individuals of the same status.

«We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.»

Either this discordant plan is a front for public school expansionism, bent on adding another grade or two to its current thirteen, and adding the staff (and dues - paying union members) that would accompany such growth, or it's a cynical calculation: only by appealing to the middle - class desire for taxpayers to underwrite the routine child - care needs of working parents will any movement occur on the pre-K front, and the heck with the truly disadvantaged youngsters who need more than that strategy will yield.

Even more surprising is the fact that the current crop of Folio 100s that were put on sale turned out to be dismal in performance and looks which is probably why it has hit a discordant note with buyers.

25 % of these cats convert to negative on both tests (safe), 25 % become positive on both tests (typically soccumb to the virus and more common in kittens), and 50 % remain discordant (where the results of the 2 tests are different and the patient may never become ill).

Although previous research on younger couples revealed that discordant heavy drinking (rather than only drinking status) is associated with lower marital satisfaction and divorce (Leonard et al., 2014; Mudar et al., 2001), the present study contributes to the literature by showing that concordance on drinking status (i.e., drinker vs. no drinker) appears to be more important for negative marital relationship quality among older couples than frequency or quantity of consumption.

In a study of older couples, however, discordant high - risk alcohol consumption (3 or more drinks a day and / or 14 drinks per week) was not related to decreased marital quality (Moos, Schutte, Brennan, & Moos, 2011).

Discordant drinking couples may use more destructive conflict strategies (e.g., yelling and insults) or more negative regulation strategies (e.g., threats and punishment) to attempt to reduce partner drinking (Rodriguez, Dibello, & Wickham, 2016).

Torvik and colleagues examined couples aged 20 and older in Norway and found that concordant abstainers and concordant heavy drinkers (e.g., drinking 10 or more times over 2 weeks and endorsed at least one indicator of hazardous drinking) had lower divorce rates, but that among discordant drinkers, heavy drinking only among wives was a stronger predictor of divorce than heavy drinking only among husbands (Torvik, Røysamb, Gustavson, Idstad, & Tambs, 2013).

Homish and Leonard (2007) examined effects of discordant heavy drinking (drinking to intoxication and / or 6 or more drinks on one occasion) on marital satisfaction over 3 years of marriage and found that greater discordance was associated with decreased marital satisfaction.