Sentences with phrase «only discordant»

About the only discordant note in the design is the use of Polyisocyanurate insulation.

While the story grows confusing at times, the only discordant notes are a couple of narratives that focus on fringe characters who appear to exist only to move the story along.

The only discordant note in this entire procedure, I found, was that the engine - transmission combination did not always run smoothly at lower speeds, and it sometimes caused the car to shudder momentarily when being brought to a quick stop.

The only discordant notes were sounded, literally, by the squeaks and creaks coming from various locations, and by the ill - fitting dash pad.

But that is absolutely the only discordant note in the predictably lush interior, where the attention to finish detail borders on obsessive.

Only the discordant music and some intentionally choppy editing connects the softer Under The Skin scenes to the sojourns into other dimensions.

The only discordant note in the photo arises from the contrast between your attire and the lush look of green behind you.

Not exact matches

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.

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 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.

There's only one way to restore harmony — by making that discordant note the first note in a brand new melody, maybe now in a minor key rather than a major, but beautiful nevertheless.

We can create harmony from discordant sounds by the addition of further sounds, but only in music.

Partners PrEP began in July 2008 and enrolled 4758 «discordant» couples in Kenya and Uganda that at the start had only one HIV - infected partner.

The researchers then gave the males access to a 10 % alcohol solution, while their female partners were allowed only water (discordant drinking) or also had access to alcohol (concordant drinking).

Importantly, only 25 and 10 possibly cross-reactive probes, respectively, have a perfect match to another location in the genome in the discordant twins and case - control cohort 2.

I cut out all the coconut oil and butter I was consuming and on 3/11/2013, only a few weeks after my initial NRM lipid profile, this really didn't lead to any change in my LDL - C or total cholesterol (I decided to cheap out since the standard cholesterol test is only $ 29 while the NMR lipid profile is around $ 100 with my initial NMR test I could see that I wasn't one of those people who had discordant LDL - C vs LDL - P).

This was later recognized to be an oversimplification, as this paradigm not only failed to elucidate the role of Th17 cells, but it was also discordant with data demonstrating that autoimmune diseases do not always fall into these neat categorical distinctions (14).

The discordant mTOR - p70S6K phosphorylation with protein only and protein feedings with alcohol is not unprecedented given we [8] and others [43] have shown that mTOR - S6K phosphorylation often parallels changes in MPS but does not always reflect either the magnitude or duration of the increased MPS signal in humans.

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.

However, while that may be sweet music to your ears, what strikes a slightly discordant note is that only Taiwan will be blessed with the e-reader initially and it's not known when the rest of the world will be as fortunate.

Vinny shows that he understands time travel by saying, «Scott Bakula and all that» (for all of you Quantum Leap fans out there) and when future Stewie saves past Brian he starts to fade out like a Marty McFly in Back to the Future — only without the discordant guitar sounds.

True artists will always be free in their submission only to one cause - not fame or celebrity, not a career, not pieces of paper from universities, but to that of whether that colour can possibly be right, whether in saturation it is discordant with the image intended, whether a composite form is distractingly discordant to the whole, (as well exemplified in the Angel of the North), not the political agenda of Liberalism in all things - to do as one likes privately or publicly so call it art «because I say it is», or to be «relevant» to a «handout dogma» by revered establishment figures of any description: nothing, as Sickert put it, that follows a «finicky programme of social pieties», and again as he says, quite rightly, defining art as «what I do» - in essence a rigid and confining agenda of a politicised mind.

Only 21 monozygotic twin pairs out of a total of 74 monozygotic pairs, or 28 percent, were concordant for transsexualism; the remaining 72 percent of identical twins were discordant for transsexualism.

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.

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).

The Bureau believes such a definition would not only be discordant with the current definition that considers whether a creditor's offices are open to the public for carrying on substantially all of its business functions, but would also increase the level of difficulty in evaluating compliance.