Both Uses of
dissonance
in
Cutting for Stone
- Strange dissonant notes thrown together, wanting resolution, and somehow they captured America and Science and all that was bold and brash and daring and exciting about America (or at least the way she imagined America to be).†
Part 1dissonant = not going well together or conflicting
- Since turning fifty, Matron had noticed such dissonances and disconnections between her thought and action; they were becoming common.†
Part 1 *dissonances = conflicts
Definition:
not going well together; or conflict
especially in these two senses:
- unpleasant musical sound
- inconsistency or conflict between beliefs and actions such as voluntarily taking actions that conflict with beliefs, or holding two conflicting beliefs (also called "cognitive dissonance")