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She felt dissonance between her values and the choices she was being pressured to make.dissonance = inner conflict between beliefs and behavior
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Within the administration, there are signs of dissonance about how to proceed.dissonance = disagreement
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The dissonance in the music made the audience tense and uncomfortable.dissonance = unpleasant, clashing sound
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The composer used moments of dissonance to create emotional intensity in the piece.dissonance = lack of harmony in music
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She felt a deep dissonance after lying to protect her friend, knowing honesty was one of her core values.dissonance = inner conflict between beliefs and behavior
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One advantage of being thoughtless, is you don't suffer as much from dissonance when you act in contradiction to your stated beliefs.†
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I struggled with this dissonance—a whorish dress, gifted to a loved daughter—until the meal had been finished and the plates cleared away.† (source)dissonance = not going well together or conflict
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Dissonance and harmonic tension slowly resolved into warm chords—the sound was transcendent.† (source)Dissonance = not going well together or conflict
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As the music, enlivened by unscored dissonances, swelled to a raucous climax, she gripped the wooden sides of her chair, closed her eyes.† (source)dissonances = conflicts
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There is always this dissonance between what you see and hear.† (source)dissonance = not going well together or conflict
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She had been awakened from her siesta by the thundering artillery that made the earth tremble, by the dissonances of the marching bands, the confusion of funeral hymns over the clamoring bells in all the churches, which had been ringing without pause since the previous day.† (source)dissonances = conflicts
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The brass chimes swayed and clanged, picking notes out of the wind and making chords from the dissonance.† (source)dissonance = not going well together or conflict
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Since turning fifty, Matron had noticed such dissonances and disconnections between her thought and action; they were becoming common.† (source)dissonances = conflicts
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There was a dissonance, faint, every two minutes across the water, and finally even that disappeared.† (source)dissonance = not going well together or conflict
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And suddenly she knew why this was so, why this sonorous and noble statement so filled with peculiar, chilling dissonances should flood her spirit with relief and recognition and joy.† (source)dissonances = conflicts
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The rock group gyrated to its outer limits, frantic dissonance worthy of the scene.† (source)dissonance = not going well together or conflict
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Now, as one of the squirearchy, greeted with honorable salutations by the villagers, he marched into his office, and peace and dignity were upon him, and the morning's dissonances all unheard.† (source)dissonances = conflicts
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