Sentences with phrase «of discordant»

Maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring antisocial behaviour: findings from a longitudinal investigation of discordant siblings.

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.

[63] Proper respect for these rights «may involve disciplinary bodies tolerating a degree of discordant criticism.»

In this situation, many of us humans will find it impossible not to overestimate the frequency of the discordant event (expert consensus actually being wrong).

This obviously makes the journalists» job easier, but less seasoned journalists simply cover each and every one of the discordant discoveries since global warming is a hot topic that sells.

Reminiscent of discordant television color bars, Whitney's loosely laid grids operate on both optical and conceptual registers, while Serra's nearby show features photos of local veterans relegated to a common child's punishment.

Behind us, in one of the smaller rooms, hang paintings like bilious eruptions, cascades and swamps of discordant, seemingly random paint, somehow arrested in its liquid flow.

This is a bit of a discordant concept, since these days we've come to understand that anything an artist does is wrapped in the larger context of their «artistic practice» and therefore becomes art.

Mostly the show read like a series of discordant arguments, rather than works in conversation with each other.

As the balloon slowly deflates, it forces air through several acoustic sound - generating devices to a funnel directed at the viewer, issuing a series of discordant noises — the frog's mating call.

Through processes of disassembly and reassembly, and through the creation of discordant visual tensions, these works ultimately reject any formal notions of resolution or the absolute, preferring instead to remain open, fragmentary, and possibly even unresolved.

The graphical style explores the palette to an almost worrying degree, and one can't help but worry that the game should come with an epilepsy warning, so rapidly flashing and full of discordant noise is the opening cinematic.

«Past Life Strife», by Christina McMullen, is the first book in the «Rise of the Discordant» series.

Soon that show tune merges with score to create a cacophony of discordant sound, fitting for what The A.V. Club's A.A. Dowd described as «a portrait of a famous dreamlife curdling into a public nightmare.»

Musically, the exciting on - the - rise composer duo of Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans («Martha Marcy May Marlene,» «Simon Killer «-RRB- bring an atonal A-game of discordant cellos and oblique half notes that would make Jonny Greenwood proud, and keeps the movie tilted on its discomfiting axis.

Despite improved medications, however, some donor - recipient pairs remain incompatible because of discordant blood types or antagonistic immune systems.

DNA methylation was analyzed in adipose tissue of discordant twins, case - control cohort 2, and the twin cohort for heritability estimates using Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChips (Illumina).

Because of discordant findings in studies on the relationship between the athlete's age and sports - related concussion symptoms and their duration, Lee, Odom, and colleagues chose to study age - related differences by applying rigorous matching criteria across different age groups and by using reliable change index (RCI) methodology.

The matter of discordant tunes on its use from election tribunals is disturbing as expressed by the CJN.

To be fair, some of the discordant voices come from those who grudgingly accept that there's now no short - term prospect of a Miliband leadership challenge.

The failure to realize a higher form of perfection is preferable for Whitehead: «Progress is founded upon the experience of discordant feelings.

Along the razor's edge between inclusion of discordant elements as effective contrasts and their dismissal as incompatible ingredients, each organic form of life seeks a particular equilibrium.

According to the new theory, there are an indefinite number of discordant time - series and an indefinite number of distinct (i.e., instantaneous) spaces.

Progress, in God's eye, is based upon the experience of discordant feelings.

He says, «Progress is founded upon the experience of discordant feeling.»

It may be resistant to falsification, but an accumulation of discordant data can not be dismissed if empirical testing is to be maintained.25

A sense of discordant searching, but never settling or finding the right tempo and beat.

The string of discordant communities along the Atlantic coast has grown into a mighty people, joined in a union which the earthquake of civil war only served to compact and consolidate.

If the basic situation of human life is set originally in complexity, any realization of harmony will be a precarious venture along the razor's edge between inclusion of discordant data as effective contrasts and their dismissal as incompatible values.

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.

These terms represent two continua rather than discrete categories: a contrast of discordant disparity, for instance, is identified only in relation to other contrasts in the particular event under scrutiny.

Not exact matches

Your marketing could well end up discordant with your intended audience — out of touch with their true wants, needs, likes and behaviors.

When the U.S. tone strikes a discordant note however, there are opportunities to look to Canada and Mexico as platforms for North American trade, in the event the U.S. pulls out of NAFTA and decides to go it alone.

Praise for an avowed supporter of the Tamil Tigers seems discordant coming Tony the Tory.

Though he remained largely unchallenged, Lee's combative character began to strike an increasingly discordant note among a growing number of Singaporeans.

«It is one of these issues that seems discordant with what our country stands for.»

The strong rise of the gold price amidst liberal doses of QE post-2008 through 2011 would have been a note discordant with an otherwise happy fable.

Discordant contrasts represent mistakes in the process of symbolic transformation.

No scheme of analysis could account for all gradations of relative scale, so I have begun with a simple division into contrasts of relative parity or disparity and contrasts that are discordant or concordant.

Thus, because the ultimate objective, the totality to which my nature is attuned has been made manifest to me, the powers of my being begin spontaneously to vibrate in accord with a single note of incredible richness wherein I can distinguish the most discordant tendencies effortlessly resolved: the excitement of action and the delight of passivity: the joy of possessing and the thrill of reaching out beyond what one possesses; the pride in growing and the happiness of being lost in what is greater than oneself.

Discordant quotations from Process and Reality about the order of concrescence reflect unresolved tension between Whitehead the metricalist and Whitehead the ordinalist.

The Timaeus states: «there were no days and nights, months and years [i.e., there were no time measurements] before the Heaven came into being» (37E); before the Heaven came into being, the contents of the Receptacle were in» discordant and unordered motion» (30A); nonetheless, «the different kinds [i.e., earth, water, air, and fire] came to have different regions, even before the ordered whole consisting of them came to be» (53A).7 Of course, the terms «before,» «motion,» and «came to have» could be construed as metaphorof the Receptacle were in» discordant and unordered motion» (30A); nonetheless, «the different kinds [i.e., earth, water, air, and fire] came to have different regions, even before the ordered whole consisting of them came to be» (53A).7 Of course, the terms «before,» «motion,» and «came to have» could be construed as metaphorof them came to be» (53A).7 Of course, the terms «before,» «motion,» and «came to have» could be construed as metaphorOf course, the terms «before,» «motion,» and «came to have» could be construed as metaphors.

It belongs to the goodness of the world, that its settled order should deal tenderly with the faint discordant light of the dawn of another age.

Therefore, to the qualities already mentioned, I would add the following generic qualities: (a) an expansive quality associated with the feelings of subjectivity; (b) a retrogressive or inertial quality inherent in the conformal feature of simple causal feelings; and (c) a discordant quality present within the communal character of transmuted physical feelings.

Despite their differences, none of the undergraduates seemed interested in challenging, supporting, or even mentioning Houellebecq's characterization of Islam as fundamentally discordant with French culture.

In the Christian sense our discordant, confused, sinful lives are given a new wholeness and sense of direction.

When this occurs, the inherently self - surpassing quality of the feelings of subjectivity, which may either overreach themselves in an expansive quality that knows no bounds or else become blocked by retrogressive and discordant tendencies, instead forms the basis for the religious mode of experience «at the width where the «self» has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality» (AI 368).

The array of analyses of time in response to these difficulties in turn suggests an additional difficulty: the existence of a plurality of sometimes discordant temporal concepts.

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.

Seen in this perspective, historical Christianity must be judged to be a discordant synthesis between a religious movement of recollection and an eschatological or non-religious movement of repetition.