But amid the upbeat noises are a few discordant notes.
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It tried to teach its discordant candidate to sing harmony.
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They created discordant and concordant notes on each sample image.
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There are more than a few other discordant notes, however.
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Clinton to recover from symptoms of the concussion are discordant.
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But no, that was another lie of the discordant mind.
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What followed, however, was a striking display of discordant allegiances.
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It was a fitting moment for a surreal, discordant day.
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Its complex polyrhythms and discordant motifs sound improvised by a child.
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There are politics here, just curiously discordant politics to the time.
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But a discordant note among the city's repeated calls for calm.
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In dissent, Justice Robert Jackson called the majority opinion "utterly discordant".
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It also connected the diverse and often discordant American Muslim community.
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Its earlier years were a wild grab bag of discordant content.
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A jazzy tune came from the speakers, discordant with the mood.
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Eerie, discordant chords drifted from another room: A trio was practicing.
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The loss of these friendships is heavy, however discordant they've become.
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In fact, I was jarred by the song's many discordant elements.
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Many musicians tried to copy their seemingly discordant approach, and failed.
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Bottles litter the floor, and discordant music blares from the record player.
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Check. A discordant yet earnest mix of font sizes, serifs, and colors?
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The discordant plonking of an untuned piano rises to an unbearable crescendo.
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It was a discordant scene with happenings elsewhere in the Disney empire.
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What is unquestionably a visually appealing exhibition is beset with discordant sensibilities.
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Still, the letter to Congress from Mr. Langhofer sounded a discordant note.
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Rider's latest plan for Westminster has struck a far more discordant note.
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This year, however, the rallying cry to save Christmas seems particularly discordant.
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His proposals "are not discordant with what happens in other countries", he says.
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It was the one discordant note in an otherwise clear, wide-ranging speech.
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One day he melted down on our piano with a diabolical, discordant pounding.
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The past few dismal weeks have left the Knicks in a discordant place.
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"I think this president is discordant with America," Mr. Cuomo said on Sunday.
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The level of discordant noise and complexity is too much for the human heart.
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Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy" is discordant enough to qualify, but it's too dark.
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Dionisio González's exhibition at Galerie Richard, while visually appealing, is beset with discordant sensibilities.
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Sometimes a many-headed beast seems to loom, shrieking in discordant voices, promising strife.
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Without Porzingis and Hardaway, they rolled out discordant lineups and relied on Courtney Lee.
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Mr. Fender found himself left to grapple with the discordant results on his own.
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To my young ears, Elektra's anguish over her murdered father sounded discordant, alien, ugly.
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Just listen, and Mr. Trump's discordant policy notes sour nearly every foreign policy tune.
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Harding explains that these discordant elements are part of "Toss a Coin's" basic appeal.
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The dissent's tone sounds a discordant note alongside the majority's plain reading of the treaty.
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But together, the mourners' discordant voices intertwine, becoming a nationless, language-less outpouring of sadness.
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Twitter could be a tree filled with birds, chirping a discordant cacophony day and night.
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But his score for Hereditary is particularly notable, full of droning menace and discordant bursts.
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Ms. Sineenat's actions "caused the royal household staff to be discordant," the official statement said.
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It's fast and engaging, though the discordant energy of it might not be for everyone.
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Discordant ideas are not there to inform; they are there to provide cover for oppression.
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Calling for more disclosure may seem discordant at a time of growing concern about privacy.
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The painter's depiction of breezy palm trees and picturesque mountain ranges contain eccentric, discordant details.
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These two realities — my son's asthma and this new respiratory virus crossing continents — feel discordant.
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But across the country, Jewish communities viewed Mr. Trump's order in competing and discordant ways.
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The idylls are punctuated by the discordant sounds of a tape rewinding at hyper-speed.
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And for anyone fluent in the president's conversational rhythms, little in the document sounds discordant.
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Instead he continues to spread anger, sarcasm, and mockery, which sound discordant in most settings.
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Pulses from these repeat bursts have, so far, seemed somewhat random and discordant in their timing.
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His most immediate first impression of the thing that has become his legacy can seem discordant.
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In Graham Costello's collective, Strata, anything goes—from discordant bashes of the keys to muted strings.
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She's completely activated by a sense of years-long wrath, a discordant, unbalanced level of rage.
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Sanders' message Sanders' effort to reach out to African-American voters has been, at times, discordant.
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Instead, Rowling took a totally different, discordant route: She had Remus and Tonks fall in love.
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It represents an opening of musical trade routes between two often discordant sides of the world.
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Then he played a very strange and discordant collection of sounds, which cracked them both up.
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The discordant element in the economic picture is that inflation is actually below the Fed's target.
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Leaving the first darkened and spare gallery, you hear the discordant noise of the second room.
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Every death brings a parade of cliches, misquotes, and dubious text that intensify the games discordant tone.
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The third night featured the discordant notes of Cruz displaying the Republican party's utter lack of unity.
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That said, consumers still face an ocean of discordant state-level protections instead of comprehensive federal guidelines.
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These days, we're trusting wholly discordant industries across the private sector to keep our biometric data secure.
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It seems to be settling into a smug, fairytale version of reality that filters out discordant information.
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The rest of the Clinton package proved discordant with an impatient political moment, devastatingly so at times.
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So it seemed discordant to some critics when, this month, Mr. Walker joined the board of PepsiCo.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel had some harsh words for the U.S. after a discordant G-7 summit.
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Various discordant facts about what happened before, during, and after the assassination continued to emerge over time.
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It opens up with some loose, discordant guitars and hurries forward from there through twitches and spasms.
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Mesches has overlaid the panorama with vexingly discordant smaller paintings of infrastructure projects and X-ray films.
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Ms. Medina eventually connected with her mother, traveling to Pennsylvania when possible, but discovered the relationship was discordant.
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Justice Samuel Alito then jumped in, and I clarified that I was only reconciling the court's discordant cases.
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Three initiatives this week, involving currency depreciation and two sets of stock market rules, have been particularly discordant.
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Like the city, the EU can feel fragmented and discordant, lacking a common mood or a shared story.
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It was this discordant relationship that designers had between stitching by hand and via machine that became contentious.
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If Brussels is truly serious about this, then discordant voices from Berlin, Paris and Rome will not help.
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When it comes to foreign policy, especially on Russia, the Trump administration is a cacophony of discordant voices.
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But other aspects of the strategy seem discordant with Trump's own insistence that ties with Russia be improved.
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His addiction to melodrama was a discordant note at a World Cup that has seen thankfully little controversy.
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And this tension is what creates the discordant foreign policy that is often (justifiably) perceived as plain hypocrisy.
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It seems to be settling into a smug, fairy tale version of reality that filters out discordant information.
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That is a recurrent theme in the editorial pages of the Times, and it is a discordant one.
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And with visions of the storm sneaking into even the most discordant scenes, inescapable loss permeates each page.
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Sometimes, it's hard to tell whether I'm actually being clumsy and discordant or just telling myself I am.
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And then the sax (yes!) comes in, and the song turns into something part joyful, part discordant, part sad.
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The noises from each instrument bounce up and around, timed to either harmonize with each other or be discordant.
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The timing of this tie-dye resurgence, right when US politics has reached a discordant din, doesn't seem incidental.
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The disagreement played out in discordant court filings, though less spectacularly than the public dispute in the Stone case.
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Jewish communities across the country viewed the order, which is aimed at college campuses, in competing and discordant ways.
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These murmurs grow discordant and progressively louder, despite indications many organizers have long been involved in community revitalization efforts.
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This is a beautiful and discordant, sweet and angry piece of music, out of body and out of time.
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The angle was a little off, their rhythm not quite right, and the bench rocked in discordant bangs and thumps.
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He was concerned the message might appear discordant with his trade efforts, according to a person familiar with the decision.
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"The big question is whether Trump will embark on a more strident or discordant policy in the South China Sea."
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The menu screen is also more visually appealing, with none of the discordant elements found in the Sega Genesis Flashback.
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But that day was when I began to understand that there was something different, discordant, between my color and myself.
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A new art book of literary and photographic works consider the more discordant and sinister sides of love and relationships.
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In this most discordant and ugliest of ways—humanity has never really had a hard time with sticking to sports.
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The Leave campaigns are loud, discordant and spirited, run by people who have obsessed about an EU referendum for decades.
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It was not discordant, but the melody was all over the place; like something written in the mid-20th century.
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It becomes two love stories — neither quite romantic, but rather about twin passions that are both discordant with their time.
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Whether the party becomes more unified after the Philadelphia convention, which began Monday on discordant notes, remains to be seen.
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Some of Mr. Trump's statements might seem particularly discordant in Seneca Falls, such as his recorded comments about groping women.
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Yet when Hefner's death was announced on Wednesday, there was a discordant note on both sides of the political spectrum.
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But throughout she evokes the discordant ins, outs, and in-betweens of friendship, family, and you bet the romantic bond.
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He's able to make a classic four-four swing feel sound fresh, or a jagged, discordant composition pulse with life.
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Forget the fact that the song itself is a tinnitus-inducing combination of brass parps, military drumming and discordant whistles.
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Reviewing what you know, you could try to engage in "reflective equilibrium," adjusting discordant beliefs into some sort of coherence.
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And their low, incessant groan is the new drone note in the discordant symphony of post-storm Puerto Rican life.
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The result can be challenging and discordant, but this is still a deeply benevolent impulse—to recognize and free pain.
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Difficult integration of discordant technologies resulted in network and billing problems that drove millions of angry customers to the exits.
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President-elect Trump was announced as the Time magazine's person of the year on Wednesday — but with a discordant note.
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Perhaps the only thing clear in this case is that once again President Donald Trump is calling the discordant tune.
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These records, which made use of dozens of SUNY Purchase student musicians, put a discordant twist on her musical training.
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Since the documentary filmmakers couldn't have predicted the election results, An Inconvenient Sequel's hopeful tone is discordant with present-day reality.
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Isolated from beach-goers and kitschy wares, she laughingly told me the discordant buildings looked like they were dropped from space.
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With each passing year, the older generation's nationalist narrative of reclamation is growing increasingly discordant with the facts on the ground.
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The narrative is opaque, each paragraph dense with fragments, and while there are alarmingly beautiful surprises, it's too fractured and discordant.
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The MOAB strike, rather than snuffing out Afghan resistance, may instead anneal discordant Afghan insurgent groups together against a common enemy.
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Sitting recently at the Veselka diner in the East Village — his old stamping grounds — Mr. Morea cut a strikingly discordant figure.
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But the pattern of husbands standing up for wives and fathers looking out for daughters was most noticeable — and most discordant.
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Take "I Eat Myself Alive"—one of the record's standout tracks—a claustrophobic drone that swells into discordant string-like sounds.
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But even then, there were some discordant moments, like when he urged relief workers to "have a good time" in Houston.
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And Comey's attacks may now strike a discordant note now Trump is a commander in chief leading US troops in battle.
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While nominally anyone can string pieces of discordant action together, what really made Sapochnik's choice stand out was the fantastic score.
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Clinton concluded with a brief, discordant programming note for the afternoon: "We'll be in Florida talking about national service," she said.
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Carnell and Segre capture the tone of Cognetti's calm descriptions of nature, setting them in tense contrast with Pietro's discordant thoughts.
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How did the unified, peaceful Europe of the late 20th century turn into the fractured, discordant continent of the early 21st?
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Groups smitten with the siege mentality filter out discordant facts and become more extreme versions of themselves, leading to further marginalization.
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To him, there is nothing more punk than turning something as flagrantly discordant as a 3-D printer into an instrument.
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The GOP's discordant claims and head-scratching moments, scattered through the hearings over the last two weeks, have left witnesses baffled.
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He keeps piling on elements, so that an initially consonant texture turns discordant and competing rhythmic patterns build to a blur.
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There is something discordant about the gap between support for charter schools by black voters and opposition by some Democratic leaders.
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In Batman v Superman, Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor was overacted and conceptually discordant with the comic book version of the character.
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"Standing By The Sea" alternated between a tense, discordant bassline and some of Hüsker Dü's least-restrained and most passionate vocal outbursts.
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The punk sound looks discordant with the Icelandic landscape but, let me assure you, people in Iceland love music when it's hardcore.
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And discordant moments like the Apple exercise bike demo illustrate just how hard it'll be to improve our unhealthy relationship to technology.
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The music grows more and more discordant in the early 2000s; by the 2030s, it's so fast and distorted it's anxiety inducing.
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More worrisome than any global shock is a Federal Reserve stocked with officials whose ideas are not only discordant but also dangerous.
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The verses are soft and melodic but the bridge becomes harsh and discordant, inserting feelings of confusion and fear into the film.
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But while plugging his "legal defense fund," Stone has given discordant explanations for both the size and origin of his legal bills.
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At other points, async is discordant and disquieting, with pieces sometimes consisting of nothing but electronically manipulated percussion that skitters and clangs.
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My mind is a parade of discordant thoughts, and as a result, I'm rarely present — in conversations, during meditation, in daily life.
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Butler layers colored strokes on top of one another, sometimes in a discordant manner, sometimes with subtle hues from the same family.
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It was characterized by improvisation jams, strange imagery, experimentation, inconsistent rhythms, discordant harmonies, abrupt changes in timbre, and general defiance of convention.
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He later led the Socialist party in France, uniting the discordant factions of the French left, and helped build the European Union.
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Turning horror into comedy is nothing new, but Mr. Iannucci's unwavering embrace of these seemingly discordant genres as twin principles is bracing.
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The goal, Mr. Kaufman said, is to find a wall color that will minimize any "discordant elements" that distract from the art.
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The other half of this show features a new series of "Elevator Paintings," allover abstractions in which cloudy washes overlay discordant backgrounds.
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Just under the halfway point, in the garages and pit lanes of the Acura race teams, something equally discordant has materialized: Nothing.
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But outside the swelling chorus of optimism in the House of Lords, where the queen spoke, there were a few discordant notes.
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Critics in Italy say the Saudi human rights record is discordant with the values of a democratic country embodied by La Scala.
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The truth is there is so much that Pandora: The World of Avatar gets right that it makes those discordant details stand out.
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That discordant approach is how the Trump administration ended up with a series of purported wins from China that are mainly rehashed promises.
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With Aronofsky's signature staccato cuts and discordant music, the series tries to redefine what natural-history documentaries can accomplish in terms of cinematography.
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Further discordant noises came recently from the chief of staff of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), the well-regarded Lieutenant-General Gadi Eisenkot.
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Supporters will grumble under their breath, the stadium will turn monochrome, and the discordant tinkling of a grand piano will echo through Islington.
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This translates to a wild live show where guitars buzz like pneumatic drills over melodic lines varying from soul-pop to discordant mayhem.
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From the moment SZA came onstage to the opening strains of "Supermodel"––those discordant, dense, now-iconic guitars––there was an atmosphere shift.
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But Johnson's decision to entrust the coordination of that process to business secretary Alok Sharma – hardly a big hitter – struck a discordant tone.
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Fox's Trump-less debate last night brought another colorful interlude to the disarray and randomness of this whole angry and discordant election cycle.
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A dramatic moment like this could have been an effective way to open the film, but instead it has a fundamentally discordant effect.
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She calls for a closer examination of the stories of our possessions, both individually and as a strange, discordant, but ultimately meaningful whole.
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It is why Pochettino's bullish disregard for them — in words, if not always in actions — strikes such a discordant note among many commentators.
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The sound Rainer Maria produced on their early works is the definition of art house emo—discordant, atonal at times, and cunningly mawkish.
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There is a harmony in that, just in the way the notes all line up, but it is a deeply dissociative and discordant one.
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Their work was harder now, though: Ebola and the discordant relationships between the government, health workers and communities were still fresh in people's memories.
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In response, Azar combined real plants with random objects from around the house, craft materials and beauty products that resulted in crude, discordant sculptures.
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When White House officials warned that a party would look discordant given the likelihood of losing the House, he insisted on going forward anyway.
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The absence of a coronavirus campaign was more glaring given that other public service advertising has continued, some of it striking a discordant note.
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Because this is a weighted photograph within a photograph, the discordant image enclosed versus the dominant image enclosing, it is disorienting and intensely memorable.
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This story is so weird and surreal, and the discordant sound is there to sort of play up how surreal the whole world is.
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On Fox and talk radio, the message was the same, with only a few conservatives willing to sound a discordant or even cautious note.
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The discordant messages underscore the lingering divide between top Democrats and key lawmakers about how to proceed with the potential impeachment of the President.
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Each church show spiel was so predictable, featuring the same discordant musical crescendos, the same sermons, the same vague, lingering unease towards non-gentiles.
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But Mexico - once a vocal member of the Lima Group regional bloc created to pressure Maduro to enact democratic reforms - struck a discordant tone.
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For the past six weeks, Legion creator Noah Hawley has taken viewers on a discordant path through the brain of one David Haller (Dan Stevens).
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To stand out once again, they would have to follow Lynch's loopy subconscious to some place entirely new and as discordant as the original show.
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In foreign policy, however, the fog of uncertainty fostered by the president's divergent campaign trail statements and discordant selection of advisers has begun to clear.
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But the idea that modern industrial society alone is responsible for our discordant forms of sleep is belied by the taxing rhythms of agrarian life.
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That has proven to be the surest way to create a discordant wild west of standards and measurements that make educational disparities impossible to see.
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The late-afternoon air carried the tang of clippings burning slow and controlled like patchouli incense, a discordant thought for this anything-but-countercultural area.
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It looked at 900 HIV-discordant couples—meaning one partner was living with HIV (undetectable and on antiretroviral therapy [ART]) and the other was negative.
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The gallery feels like a sanctuary, a place of worship, respect, and contemplation that fosters synchronicity between a collection of seemingly discordant and unrelated artworks.
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A sturdy dresser and half-moon writing desk, in polished dark wood with brass handles, felt discordant among the room's clean lines and pale palette.
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CHICAGO — An exotic, discordant symphony was ringing out in The Hypocrites' cavernous rehearsal space in the Ravenswood neighborhood on a crisp Tuesday night this month.
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As in certain Hockney paintings, large-leafed plants abound and exterior walls are painted in discordant hues of hot pink, royal blue and yolky yellow.
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It could have been a discordant note amid the sparkling sophistication but instead it created an impression of streamlined modernity, and kept nostalgia at bay.
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For starters, there was the discordant vibe of liberation written all over Mr. Sondland's face while detailing his bromance rapport with a real-life president.
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If you prefer to view dying as a natural part of life, a step in a cycle, this film will feel discordant and perhaps counterproductive.
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But the discordant messages laid bare a national security process that, officials say, has shrunk to little more than the instincts of an impulsive president.
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Lines from the former mayor like, "They wanted to keep it quiet for everybody's interest," seem strikingly discordant with this moment in the Democratic Party.
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Jazz was the new counterculture dance music replacing ragtime — but more dangerous, disorderly and discordant, consisting of random, wrong-sounding musical obstreperousness and percussive turmoil.
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Gesualdo had murdered his wife and her lover, and spent his last days in a torment which one can sense in his crazily discordant late works.
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Thus far the new season of Twin Peaks has also been confusing, discordant, and lacking in an overall propulsive narrative drive (see "Cooper, Agent Dale" above).
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Throughout Mark Leibovich's new book Big Game, the ghoulish results of an NFL career — memory loss, physical degeneration, grief — materialize on the edges, in discordant places.
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The Brazilian government is monitoring six such sets of twins, discordant for Zika microcephaly, in hopes of learning how the virus infects (or doesn't infect) fetuses.
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All discordant cycles and bizarre segues, The White Death takes a long hard look at what black metal is and turns it completely on its head.
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If you'd heard of them before, you may have slotted them in next to PC Music and its discordant, sometimes shrill, aggressively digital take on pop.
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The editors discuss the issue; opting to sidestep the question, they decide to proceed with a clip that contains a rush of muffled, discordant sounds. Profanity?
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" He doesn't tell us if the tattoos date from his involvement with his neighborhood's gangs, but there's something appealingly discordant in a tattoo that says, "Smile.
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Azalea's point about the content of her songs going untouched highlights the site's discordant policy on the materials that it allows users to stream and download.
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The issue is that Trump has from the start run his affairs like a capricious monarch who likes to have a discordant range of conflicting advice.
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When given the Dälek remix treatment, though, it becomes utterly transformed, stretched out into a discordant opium haze, peppered with electronic blips and menacing subsonic frequencies.
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The album sees them maintain the raw, discordant black metal sound of its debut, while rounding out its sound with elements of doom and death metal.
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This theory of dissonant counterpoint would invert traditional rules of harmonic writing and, Seeger believed, create a musical language at once radically discordant and uniquely American.
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There's nary a wasted breath before the closer "Lament" barrels in with its bottom-heavy groove and chugging guitars lending hefty closure to its discordant predecessors.
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The transitions seemed a bit jarring at times, and you could almost feel scenes being cut out, creating an occasionally discordant sensation when the setting would shift.
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Though the film was edited to reflect Donald Trump's win and his Paris exit, they are acknowledged only briefly, odd discordant notes in an otherwise triumphant melody.
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The first scene in "Put It Down" is just Tweek screaming and playing a discordant piano in reaction to intensifying relations between the US and North Korea.
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That struck a discordant note, in that Mr. Johnson has promoted his Brexit policy by saying it would open the door to a lucrative deal with Washington.
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In most of them, such as "Visionary Transformation of the Purification" (2011–13), a concentric configuration of deities disintegrates into an all-over marbling of discordant colors.
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The morning following a Democratic debate is like waking up after a loud cocktail party and trying to piece together the discordant images from a long night.
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Still, the latest round of negotiations showed that a confident China could be more than a match for divided American officials who have made often discordant demands.
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What happens next will yank the film from observant coming-of-age drama to trite crime caper — a disappointing swerve into snitching, double-crossing and discordant violence.
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While the FCC may be singing a familiar song, there is a discordant tune over at the Department of Justice, where signs of inconsistent decisions are emerging.
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Ahead of their time, the band's dissonant, discordant heavy-rock is said to have been an influence on the likes of Sonic Youth, the Swans and others.
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When she plays these nearly discordant, absurdly fast run, it has this sensation of trying to stand still after spinning around really fast in a desk chair.
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Breaking up is hard to do – and the European Union has been treating the U.K. like it's a spouse on the verge of leaving a long, discordant marriage.
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"To me, it's very discordant to hear him complaining about the debt on one hand, and proffering a plan that would make it so much worse," he said.
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For decades serious musicians have mocked it as the discordant, breathy, vulgar voice of peasants, clowns and fairground hucksters: an endlessly jovial or sentimental repertoire of folksy tunes.
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But lately I've found myself less patient with it, more attuned the discordant notes of weak humor being wedged into a setting that's left no space for it.
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ENDON renders a tumultuous ten minutes into placid organ-filled ambient work that is quickly superseded by Aaron Turner of SUMAC's snarling verses and chaotically warped discordant noise.
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" Around the same time came a discordant note: news that two black men had been arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks for what many describe as "waiting while black.
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For in a musical sense, the European Championships are a gathering of bizarrely discordant overtures, cheesy riffs, synthesizers and, quite often, rhymes that schoolchildren would struggle to comprehend.
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Underage smoking is one of those things that really only looks charismatic when you're even further underage; otherwise the combination of backpacks and hard packs is just discordant.
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It's one thing to fight evil, but Shazam's eye-popping, slack-jawed, discordant physicality is a reminder that it's just as tough to get a grip on yourself.
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The smarter a person is, the greater his or her ability to rationalize and reinterpret discordant information, and the greater the polarizing boomerang effect is likely to be.
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The name comes from a legend about the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, who came across five men hammering at a forge; the fifth hammer created a distinctly discordant sound.
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We have watched a restless day of rest in the park of the title, where an assortment of flâneurs and poseurs have become steadily more fractious and discordant.
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In Seasons 5 (set during the resulting riot) and 6 (dealing with the riot's aftermath), the series tilted more toward the somber, and the comedy felt more discordant.
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In Seasons 5 (set during the resulting riot) and 6 (dealing with the riot's aftermath), the series tilted more toward the somber, and the comedy felt more discordant.
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The bickering between them is discordant filler, particularly given the miseries — the bullet-pocked buildings, the orphaned, the starving, the desperate and the dead — that surround the aid workers.
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Image courtesy of the artist Because the gestures will be random and arbitrary from the audience, Oikawa's musical compositions have to be able to react appropriately without sounding discordant.
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But it's hard to know who to blame for the forced and discordant scenes, or the mood-killing casting of Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding as the romantic leads.
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It was a discordant message coming out of a liberal American university whose first class was held in the basement of the First Baptist Church of Lewisburg in 21980.
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The Patterns EP finds Samuel Riot teasing out a quivering and tensile, low-blood-sugar-in-the-club vibe, all slurred beats, discordant melody, and griping blasts of noise.
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It was all in stark contrast to the discordant years of the Obama administration, when a 2010 visit by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. ended in bitter recrimination.
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But Trump's hurricane talk and hurricane tweets were like his fair-weather fare: childishly intent on superlatives, puerilely obsessed with size, laden with boasts and lavish with discordant asides.
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It would be a bit discordant to hear Mr. Bharara defending clients accused of financial chicanery after his aggressive pursuit of white-collar defendants over the last eight years.
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ISPs have been quick to argue that state efforts to impose their own consumer protections creates a discordant and costly patchwork of rules ISPs will struggle to adhere to.
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That incident may have been on the mind of Yennifer Correia, a classical violinist, when she got into a discordant duet with a United employee in Houston on June 4th.
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Berlin-based producer, Rui Ho, has shared a discordant remix of their track "Ru Meng Ling" by Copenhagen producer Why Be, to be released on Shanghai imprint Genome 6.66 Mbp.
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But as a life advice show, especially next to its warmer, fuzzier Netflix sibling Queer Eye, Tidying Up is discordant in a way that takes a while to pin down.
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While the band largely eschews that record's subtler elements of discordant, droning melody (a relative term) and death metal inflections, they've lost nothing in blistering, hammer-to-the-head power.
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Related: Giant Billboards Paint a Discordant Portrait of Mongolian Desertification Leonard Suryajaya's Photos Let You See the World Through Outsider's Eyes Why You Should Be Paying Attention to Agriculture Photography
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Some sources close to Trump remained optimistic that Kelly could succeed in bringing an often discordant White House staff into line, despite the demonstrated failings of his predecessor Reince Priebus.
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The discordant tones he struck at the UN General Assembly last year -- "we will have no choice but to destroy North Korea" -- have all but echoed out of current discourse.
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But Martel's extravagantly titled story — "The Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto With One Discordant Violin, by the American Composer John Morton" — doesn't have it either.
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Katowice, Poland (CNN)After two weeks of discordant and emotional negotiations, the nations of the world agreed Saturday night on a set of rules meant to help curb global warming.
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Some of these effects, bestowed by that spirit whom she calls the "angel of uncertainty" (the wayward twin of Proust's "angel of certainty"), can be beautiful, others eerie or discordant.
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Created independently from the show it features a concave mirror, blue LED lights, and discordant audio—a disorientating experience that ties in with the opening of 22016: A Space Odyssey.
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Tidemand, on the other hand, lashes together two massive and massively discordant themes: our arrogance in believing we can set the terms of our own fate, and our ultimate vulnerability.
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Daniels, who was obviously neither of these extremes, winds up looking perpetually uncomfortable, which makes the film's constant descriptions of Lisa as a conniving sex goddess seem strange and discordant.
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Instead of playing each of these genres and tones separately or as merely pastiche, they blended with each other—often in uncomfortable or discordant ways—producing something that felt distinct.
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One of his most famous works is the 1960 composition "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima," a wailing, discordant lamentation dedicated to the victims of World War II's atomic bombing.
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After a twist-filled Season 2 finale left audiences discordant (or just asking why June didn't get into that truck), "The Handmaid's Tale" returns to Hulu for a third round.
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The ponderous music that blares when Arnold's phone rings is amusing, and then it's abruptly not, having transformed, call after call, into a dirge, a requiem, a discordant family bleat.
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Photos of fake conflict-zones far from any foreign fire reminded me of how contingent our internal realities are upon our physical realities, and how discordant these realities can be.
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The disconnect was on display at the white-tie Al Smith dinner in New York shortly before the 2016 election, when Trump's jabs at Hillary Clinton hit clanging, discordant notes.
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It's discordant to watch her get so excited about finally earning health insurance and rekindling her passion for dancing right as her son is being threatened by a murderous monster.
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" "When discordant news got in the way -- a communal riot here, a clash between the army and insurgents there -- it was easily swept aside as peripheral to the main story.
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There's a lot of discordant synthesizer noise at first that builds up, rather brilliantly, I think, to the introduction of Cats' main theme at 1:11 — the Jellicle cats theme.
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The result has been largely deemed too pop and melodic for their old noise head fan base, and too discordant and plain ol' weird for fans of most anything else.
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It was as though somebody turned off a blaring radio, a soundtrack of discordant shouting voices that had been on for so long that I had gotten used to it.
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General relativity tests are important if scientists hope to really understand the universe at its limits, or figure out how the theory connects to the seemingly discordant mathematics of quantum mechanics.
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The Fed has to reconcile an inflation and employment mandate while the ECB needs to worry about a discordant currency union that came to the brink of collapse in recent years.
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"We're open for investors, including foreigners," he declares, a statement that might seem discordant in an era of sanctions and with a war simmering just across the border in eastern Ukraine.
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NEWLY RELEASED BEYOND ZERO: 1914-1918 A collaboration between the filmmaker Bill Morrison and the Kronos Quartet, "Beyond Zero" sets nitrate footage of World War I to Aleksandra Vrebalov's discordant score.
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The first day of the Democratic National Convention opened on a jarring, discordant note, as Bernie Sanders supporters in the Wells Fargo Center began booing every mention of Hillary Clinton's name.
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" We flatter ourselves with our schoolbookish vision of the United States as a nation of immigrants and a nation of religions, forever crafting a peaceful "unum" out of this discordant "pluribus.
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These motifs are stitched into the fabric of the canvas by hand, an interjection that makes them more visually discordant with the painted scenes that are ethereal and haunting by themselves.
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Mr. Hintz's theory on the seemingly discordant survey results: "The level of dysfunction and cynicism and chaos that's happening in Washington, D.C., makes doing nothing, perhaps, in Wisconsin seem somewhat calm."
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She believes that today, people have been profoundly hypnotized into dismissing their own merits as a sinister, relentless chorus of doubt delivers discordant notes of insecurity and isolation to the masses.
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I heard Weir sing "Playing In The Band," with the extended jam at the song's core heading into especially discordant territory, and Lesh bleat out "Box of Rain"—both revelatory experiences.
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In just over two minutes, their lead grew to 14 again, and although the game's final stanza was at times discordant, the Knicks had notched their first victory of the season.
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The sick humor about Elsa and Nazi propaganda does make for a lot of uncomfortable laughs, in part because it's so discordant and unexpected, and because Jojo is so desperately ignorant.
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I'm not sure what developer Infinity Ward is trying to do with these quotes, but they're discordant and highlight the strange contradictions and problems of the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
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Mr Fillon hit the most discordant note of all when he sought to mimic the grandiose oratory of Charles de Gaulle, whose photo he kept on his bedroom wall as a child.
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Algo-clash clothing would be more like the artist Philip David Stearns's glitch textiles, unique fabrics generated from software gone intentionally awry, the discordant pattern of pixels made into a Baroque style.
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Trump's hyperbolic praise for a summit that was evidently discordant shows his refusal to allow any venture in which he is involved to be portrayed as anything other than a roaring success.
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Still, experts warn that at any age, and especially in adolescence, great caution must be taken before irreversible treatments are provided to induce changes that conform to a person's discordant gender identity.
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The pain of seeing my father continually erode into a pitiful figure—all missing teeth and rummy eyes, dressed in the discordant, used-clothing wardrobe of the perennially downtrodden—was too much.
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In an attempt to make sense of these discordant results, the new research combined data from 69 previous studies, resulting in a comparison of 2,152 frequent marijuana users with 6,575 non-users.
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Rather than look "punk," Descendents have actually been punk, eschewing all of the things bands "should do" in favor of playing angular and often discordant pop-inspired songs with melodies and harmonies.
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Through a carefully constructed set of rewards and punishments, the CCP will reassert itself as the only authority in China and crowd-out discordant voices and potential challengers to single party rule.
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The Andante, her most famous piece, consists of a fierce litany of minuscule swells attaining such expressive energy that the music becomes a kind of discordant version of Barber's Adagio for Strings.
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The situation is putting pressure on Mr. Brown, who is heading toward the end of a long career here, and it is threatening to add a discordant punctuation mark to his legacy.
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In an epilogue, Caxton wrote that, after receiving an English translation of the French version of "The Dictes," he read the manuscript and "found nothing discordant therein"—well, except for one thing.
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Despite the sometimes discordant tune from the Trump legal team, the lawyers are close to receiving a round of written questions from Mueller's investigators, according to a source briefed on the talks.
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Songs like "Good Lava" and "One" veer off course with discordant guitars and apocalyptic choirs, a tactic that's almost counterintuitive for a vocalist and composer who could so easily stick to pretty.
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"I knew something was up," he said in a telephone interview on Monday, zeroing in on the discordant moment when he noticed two of his employees interrupting the best picture acceptance speeches.
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"The volatility in equities over the last 72 hours is very discordant with the amount of actual incremental news crossing the wires," said Adam Crisafulli, founder of Vital Knowledge, in a note.
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Album centerpiece "The Tunnel" finds Davidson trapped in a tunnel filled with broken glass, unable to get out; the song's dense, discordant synths evoke sheer terror like few artists are able to.
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Many of these recommendations are discordant with the policies thus far sketched out by President-elect Donald Trump and his picks to hold key cabinet positions in the run-up to the inauguration.
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The disagreements between officials at the NSC and U.S. State Department over whether to maintain a hard line or take a step-by-step approach are "creating a discordant policy line," Green said.
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It was a discordant, but consistent, note in the strange crescendo of those few heady days, before a video of a rat dragging a pizza slice supplanted me as the next viral sensation.
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A particular strain of moody romanticism pervades "One Discordant Violin," a monologue with music adapted by Anthony Black from a jejune short story that Yann Martel ("Life of Pi") wrote in his 20s.
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Trump's call to change the Constitution via executive order also struck a discordant note with a GOP conference that filed court briefs in a lawsuit against former President Obama's executive actions on immigration.
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Though he occasionally moves into a more discordant, nasally voice—borrowing, for a moment, the sourness of Bob Dylan—it's often hard to distinguish his singing from any number of gauzy, fading synthesizers.
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Many observers felt the MLK clip struck a discordant note given the ongoing tensions surrounding the NFL's stance on Colin Kaepernick and other players kneeling during the National Anthem to protest systemic racism.
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I can't reveal it yet but it will deal with an issue many of you have raised: the discordant note struck by using the word today in the title of a weekly newsletter.
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"If you prefer to view dying as a natural part of life, a step in a cycle, this film will feel discordant and perhaps counterproductive," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The New York Times.
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Although he was friends for 60 years with André Verchuren, "the king of the accordion" in its street guise, that sharp, discordant quality, "anti-musical" to his ears, did not truly appeal to him.
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Except for this: Some of the points made by Hinkie, verbose though they were, Jackson would have to nod affirmatively to, given the increasingly discordant critiques of his two-plus years in New York.
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Two of them are here: a version from 1896, roughened with the same scraping technique used in that early self-portrait, and another, from 1915, whose vertical brush strokes are bolder and more discordant.
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There is something almost discordant about including Justice Thomas in a discussion of "the future" because his highly personal and eccentric jurisprudence would take the court and the Constitution hurtling backward into the past.
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There's currently an entire multi-billion dollar industry tasked with taking full advantage of the Gmail tab system, using a universe of discordant and different technologies to maximize the reach of their marketing messages.
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This sense of hope is discordant with the rest of online media, which seems in grim shape — last year, more than 2000,220 people were laid off at BuzzFeed, AOL, Yahoo, HuffPost and Vice Media.
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This sense of hope is discordant with the rest of online media, which seems in grim shape — last year, more than 2000,220 people were laid off at BuzzFeed, AOL, Yahoo, HuffPost and Vice Media.
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Swiss director bo Odar loves images of sleight-of-hand magic and glowering men lurking deep in the depths of giant hoods, and Dark shares Who Am I's grimy, heavy cinematography and screaming discordant soundtrack.
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Pelosi, or more correctly, the GOP caricature of her that has been rolled out every two years, is an icon of coastal liberalism who strikes a discordant chord with some voters in conservative-leaning districts.
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"We should seek to better understand subgroups that may be prone to discordant HbA1c and glucose measures; such groups may overlap with race, but we should not conflate such conditions with race itself," they wrote.
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"The images for which annotations were found to be discordant — that is if they were viewed differently by three team members — were sent to senior cytopathologists for final analysis," Microsoft wrote in a blog post.
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In the same essay, she looks at her relationships with her sisters—tight, somatic, and sometimes discordant bonds, so unlike the bonds of mutual encouragement and honest compassion she shares with friends as an adult.
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Since 2016, we've learned in drip-drip-drip revelations how our social media giants, especially Facebook, have made us disconnected — divided, discordant, isolated into like-minded silos, and manipulated by hackers working for the Kremlin.
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If these story beats led anywhere, or if they fit into a broader picture that Nantucket is trying to paint of the inner lives of sailors and their officers, then they might not seem discordant.
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But even given these associations, when I see a food that's not naturally black turned that dramatic shade, it strikes me as so discordant that I expect it to taste like nothing I've tried before.
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Preaching a message of unity and reconciliation that resonated with many in the discordant age of Trump, O'Rourke took an ever-growing social media community along with him on his seemingly quixotic campaign against Cruz.
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If there was a discordant note on Sunday, it might have been when Trump took to Twitter to admonish South Korea, a key ally, for what he termed a policy of "appeasement" of North Korea.
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But on Monday morning, Kasich himself sounded a discordant note — emphasizing that while his campaign is no longer focusing on Indiana, he still hopes his supporters there will vote for him and not for Cruz.
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American University is a small campus tucked into a leafy, suburban neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Students hang out and study on the quad, which is so peaceful you almost forget you're in the nation's discordant capital.
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For the United States to seek to keep China down merely to preserve its place in the pecking order by, say, further balkanising the internet, is a recipe for a poorer, discordant—and possibly warlike—world.
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Her parents could have been stuck for eternity with the consecutive ex-sons-in-law, though that possibility, a discordant note that their marriage, known for its harmony, would have had to endure posthumously, entertained Bella.
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Even back then, the capital was far more diverse than it was made out to be; and even then, it seemed discordant that such a clearly multicultural place was struggling to integrate its booming immigrant population.
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Then, Mr. Lieberman would manipulate those video clips — adding an aura, for example, to illustrate the warm thrall of an initial high; layering the video with spiky, discordant static to get across the pain of withdrawal.
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Inside Today's FBI was one of the more popular exhibitions I walked through, mostly a hodgepodge of unrelated and discordant FBI ephemera from various cases that made national or international headlines in the last quarter-century.
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" One analyst said this was quite noteworthy, explaining "It is no secret that these two previously discordant states are now cooperating in unprecedented ways as they try to counter the threat posed by a nuclear Iran.
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No matter, as I agree with you that "soothing" is not the appropriate adjective to describe the Seventh — unless you compare it to the new, atonal, discordant compositions that often begin many of the Philharmonic performances.
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Francis's sharp criticism came on a morning filled with symbols of temporal and ecclesiastical power, marking a discordant note on the first full day of a trip to Mexico designed to demonstrate his devotion to the powerless.
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Dizzee Rascal and Skepta may have bars, but the beats are way too fast and discordant to have any appeal for someone looking for the same feeling they get from listening to Jay Z or Gucci Mane.
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Set against the darkness of dusk, the video sees Rundle, the wonderfully gloomy songwriter behind acts like Marriages and Red Sparowes, waxing about the hopefulness of mortality over the discordant yet sweet sounds of her scratchy guitar.
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He has moved to shrink the number of journalists traveling with him, and his press shop has curbed some interviews with subordinates in the department — presumably to limit the likelihood a Pentagon official utters some discordant note.
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Their findings presented a discordant medley: cases involving mentally disturbed people, extremists, and terrorists; political grievances that escalated; and one incident, in 1890, in which a journalist shot and killed a congressman who had been harassing him.
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Under the droplets of rain that hit us through the large canopy of trees, they make music that feels both rhythmic and discordant, ramping up both the volume the weird factor as dog walkers look on in bewilderment.
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Think of a long sentence as a poem and it will always be clear, because each part of it will unravel in little musical phrases, with all the different parts coloring one another without it ever feeling discordant.
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The scene was rife with bands that borrowed heavily from earlier elements of Romanticism, the occult, and literature; from Siouxsie Sioux's Egyptian-inspired eye makeup to Adam Ant's Byronic "Dandy Highwayman" to Bauhaus' discordant homage to famous vampires.
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Those kind of standout, nightmarish moments are threaded throughout the film, with Guadagnino often deploying his horror show imagery in discordant jump cuts, or quick flashes that disorient the audience much as Susie is feeling increasingly off-balance.
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Having refused to hire any Republican who criticised him during his rowdy and divisive election campaign, he has a relatively small stock of talent to draw from—and his discordant and unstable administration is off-putting to many.
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Trump's enthusiastic embrace of the guns rights organization sometimes appeared discordant: The President was once a proponent for stricter gun control laws, and hails from a city with some of the toughest restrictions on firearms in the country.
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The Whitney will feature the collective's 2016 video installation, "A Very Long Line," in which the camera rapidly moves laterally along the border to a discordant soundtrack, as if from the perspective of a passenger in a car.
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That dizzying feat feels strangely discordant with this newly restored and quietly beautiful film, which offers intimate and lightly fictionalized portraits of Mr. Hockney and his creative friends, filmed in London and New York from 1971 to '73.
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Jazzercise — the dance-inspired exercise regime popular in the 1980s — may seem a thin hook for an entire book of ambitious verse and prose poems about bodies and sex and "gender-discordant" identity, melancholy and capitalism and mortality.
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LOS ANGELES — When the long-awaited Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opens next year, it will offer a mix of scholarship and sparkle as it tries to appeal to two discordant audiences: moviedom's elite and the tourist masses.
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So, the president's invitation to immigrants facing religious persecution abroad strikes a discordant note for the Muslim families his own policies have kept apart, along with the immigrants at our southern border seeking safety and a new beginning.
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The events that unfolded after the reshuffle had "created anxiety and undue confusion as a result of the discordant views, in particular of the National Officials of the ANC," Mantashe said, referring to the criticism directed at Zuma.
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There is the faux-naïve figuration that consists of overlapping moments or perspectives such as in "Pink Lips and Halo" (2016) which act as odd, discordant melodies that skate on top of an insistent, driving bass of gay sexuality.
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The use of GBU-2628/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, American military's largest conventional weapon, on an ISIS tunnel complex in Nangarhar Province may have served to unite often-discordant Afghans against the U.S. and its client Afghan government.
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The leader grunts and grinds out his own sinister version of the same song, their discordant duet joined remotely by the woman's ex-husband in the Foreign Legion, also now a seasoned killer and a fair-to-middling baritone.
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Their entirely aptly titled debut album, A New Wave of Violence (taken from the Raymond Pettibon zine), sounds like what one might imagine the sum total of five people known for innovation in discordant audio assault would sound like.
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When she opens "A Curse"with dry, breathy whisper, the chill is inescapable—dead leaves rustling in an graveyard on a still winter night—and her unearthly roars at its panicky, discordant end are enough to stop your heart.
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Half the songs have no melodic elements at all, instead constructing a sharper, heavier, more uncompromising sound from only the interlocking of various discordant electronic drums and her own voice; it's irresistible even as it's hard to listen to.
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And she persists with Retrovirus, delivering a caldron frothing with tales of brutal heartbreak and deliciously hard living wrapped in a discordant blues wrapper provided by Weasel Walter on guitar, Tim Dahl on bass and Bob Bert on drums.
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"Such hashtags serve mostly as bait: they serve to attract 'opposing view' readers, which results in explosive and discordant online mutual shouting -- in place of any reasonable debate, which would not be in the interest of Russia," Grozev said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A prominent U.S. prosecutor said the Trump administration fired him on Saturday after he refused to step down, adding a discordant note to what is normally a routine changing of top attorneys when a new president takes office.
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Replacing the jazz elements that flowed through "To pimp a butterfly" is a discordant batch of raw materials: siren-synth 808 beats, candy-cane autotune, slow, sparse reverb, scattered across the album's 54 minutes but never blended into a cohesive whole.
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By lobbying to eliminate modest consumer protections on the federal level, they've opened the door to a litany of discordant state-level solutions and endless, costly local legal battles, an ignominious fate for arguably the least-liked industry in America.
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Indeed, "microaggression" is a ridiculous word; it's a linguistic feat to combine such discordant concepts as "micro" and "aggression," to coin a term so self-contradictory that the injustices it identifies can then be dismissed on account of their smallness.
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A lot of those scores are indeed just "ominous drone, then LOUD STRINGS" but that would be leaving out the discordant voices of The Witch or the tragic grandeur of Byung-woo Lee's waltz for A Tale of Two Sisters.
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"The presence of two political appointees on the board may mean more dissents and discordant communication, but the remainder of the board will have sufficient numbers to conduct monetary policy based on the dual mandate, as opposed to political preference."
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With rooms starting at about $1,000 a night in the summer, and a cordoned-off square of sand accessorized with tented cabanas and yellow chaises, the Ocean House is a discordant display of gated excess on a beloved public beach.
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The teenager would practice at home as much as he could, but given the loud and sometimes discordant sounds that emanate from a beginner's harmonica, he would save his parents' ears and sanity and head out of the house to practice.
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As Mercury enters your communication sector on Thursday, you come up with some schemes to organize all of the seemingly discordant information into a beautiful masterpiece that can be synthesized and eventually shared from your soapbox as something powerful and special.
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At a studio in Seattle in 1965, John Coltrane recorded Om, a 29-minute, two-track album full of discordant, seemingly structureless saxophone, flute, piano, and drums mixed with lines from the Bhagavad Gita and The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
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That cheering for a man who is not only surrounded by corruption, but whose inner circle is also under criminal investigation, has become the discordant soundtrack of a man who is morally compromised and whose campaign may have been materially compromised.
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Mr. Trump's paper towel-tossing episode in Puerto Rico seems even more discordant in retrospect, after his unfounded claim last week that the death toll there from Hurricane Maria had been inflated as part of a Democratic plot to discredit him.
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Every afternoon in elementary school, I plunked my discordant fingers in the cracks between the keys, not because I didn't know the score, but because the thickened skin on the tips of my fingers prevented me from feeling the ivories — literally.
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It's Welcome to Night Vale by way of NPR — that is, it sounds like a news program, if the news were covering a town full of deeply surreal and discordant weirdness, from faceless firemen to terrifying wooden shapes in the forest.
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While tributes flowed in from across Europe, the head of the anti-EU Northern League party struck a discordant note, denouncing Ciampi for the crucial role he had played in making sure Italy was part of the euro from its birth in 1999.
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Set to a discordant remixed version of Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence" and featuring a CGI rendering by Hiba Ali of the Kalashnikov bullet, Gravenor situates the destruction wreaked on her body within the historical context of the bullet's manufacture.
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Paris (CNN)At stake over this long weekend, when Europe went to the polls to select its new leaders, were the seats of the 751 members of the European Parliament -- but also the very character of an increasingly discordant, even fragmented, Europe.
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Still, against a backdrop of ceaseless and varied obstacles — clashing egos, brushes with the F.B.I. and K.G.B., creationists holding town hall meetings across the street, enormous administrative entropy swirling between vision and reality — this discordant cohort of idealists persevered for half a century.
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The first study, Stronger Together, aims to provide couples in which one is HIV negative and one is HIV positive (known as sero-discordant couples) with the opportunity to come together and make informed decisions that allow them to keep their relationship healthy.
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But if you see them as an essential part of our democracy, necessary tools for taming conflict, balancing discordant values, ordering democratic deliberation and organizing democratic action, you might recoil when someone like an unaccountable billionaire suggests we'd be better off without them.
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His jangling, often discordant soundtrack is a striking accompaniment to the alien mating rituals of two amorous cephalopods in this clip from the filmmaker Jean Painlevé's short 1967 documentary "The Love Life of an Octopus" ("Les Amours de la Pieuvre" in French).
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Part of why Bloomberg's wealth strikes a discordant note is that taxing the wealthy seems like a logical way to pay for sweeping climate legislation like the Green New Deal, according to Charles Komanoff, co-founder of the nonprofit Carbon Tax Center.
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It also forced her to confront a discordant reality: as a domestic worker in search of the American Dream, she had taken one in only a handful of jobs in the United States that has been excluded from laws meant to shield workers from abuse.
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The bottom line: Trump will face a choice in Buenos Aires: Side with the rest of his administration and endorse the growing competition with China; or, as with Russia, remain a discordant note in the international chorus in the interest of short-term political goals.
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When Sawyer unknowingly takes a bad batch of pills, her psychotic break is illustrated via a terrifying scene in which a shot of her from the front and one from the back are superimposed over each other, discordant music screeching as she stumbles about.
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The New York Times critic Bosley Crowther found it "strange and confused" — hardly an inappropriate response to a kiddie show that ends with a red radioactive mushroom cloud followed by the elevation of the piano exercise "Chopsticks" to a discordant anthem of juvenile liberation.
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On a trip to Saudi Arabia in October, Ms. Nauert posted on Instagram a smiling selfie outside a government complex in Riyadh, a discordant image given that the purpose of the visit was to discuss the brutal murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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While the emergency legislation may spare couples like Ms. Canton and Mr. Damon the hassle of conducting a second wedding or moving their ceremonies to Maryland or Virginia to be legally married, it hasn't prevented D.C. wedding bells from continuing to strike some discordant notes.
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But on the big video wall in the Place des Mousquetaires, there was still high-stakes tennis on display: a special screening of Julien Faraut's documentary, "John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection," which focuses on McEnroe's virtuoso 43 season that included one discordant note.
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"No matter where you come from, or what faith you practice, you are now an American citizen," Mr. Trump wrote in a letter all of us received at the naturalization ceremony, which struck some participants as discordant, given how he has described our home countries.
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But his typical confidence and downplaying of the threat — he bragged that America was a top-ranked country for handling a viral outbreak and noted the seasonal flu was killing more people than the coronavirus — continued the administration's occasional discordant messaging on the subject.
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That meeting struck a discordant note with the rest of Francis' visit to the United States, but many conservative American Catholics, who have criticized the pope's inclusive agenda, pointed to it as proof that the pope had not departed from the traditional culture war agenda.
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In 1968, when the Brazilian band Os Mutantes performed the discordant "É Proibido Proibir" ("Prohibiting Is Prohibited"), with the singer Caetano Veloso, for an audience of conservative students at the Festival International de Canção, in Rio, the crowd bristled, and many turned their backs.
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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama chided Vietnam on political freedoms on Tuesday after critics of its communist-run government were prevented from meeting him in Hanoi, a discordant note on a trip otherwise steeped in amity between the former foes.
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Embryonic attempts by the Chinese government to engage with the opposition and allay such concerns have not gone far, complicated by the latter's discordant, hydra-like nature; it remains unclear who among the opposition's various warring chieftains would take the helm in a transition.
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For an ecosystem that has in many ways avoided the public markets, these changing norms will not just increase the pressure to go public, but may also present challenges for boards where discordant voices may be simultaneously pushing the exec team to stay private or go public.
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Reflationist board member Yutaka Harada and Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata have both sounded discordant notes in support of bond purchases despite the new framework, while Kuroda has said the pace of purchases could slow if the bank can hit its yield control target with less buying.
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Those discordant strings have the creepy tension of Steve Reich soundtracking a Hitchcock murder scene, Thom Yorke's voice sounds like a synth made from weeping ghosts, and you can't put a price on a music video in 2016 that has a genuine idea at its core.
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Aggressively atmospheric opener "Tower of False Cleansing" gnashes away in an ice-cold mid-215s black metal furor, while "Morbid Oaths Fall From Wicked Tongues" is a mesmerizing dirge that snaps to attention midway through, charging headlong into discordant, howling chaos with a beautifully clean finish.
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Cambridge physicist Dr. Sebastian Ahnert presented the findings of a 2011 study in April of this year in which he'd mapped a bunch of flavor networks, resulting in hypothetical pairings of different, seemingly discordant foods—coffees and potatoes, for example—whose flavors may play off one another's.
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HANGZHOU, China — President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China formally committed the world's two largest economies to the Paris climate agreement here on Saturday, cementing their partnership on climate change and offering a rare display of harmony in a relationship that has become increasingly discordant.
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However, Mexico - once a vocal member of the Lima Group regional bloc created to pressure Maduro to enact democratic reforms - struck a discordant note under new leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, saying it would not take sides and branding support for Guaido a violation of sovereignty.
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Some of that is no doubt Lynch adapting his filmmaking style to better represent specific locations, but it turns the many different story threads — catching up with old friends like Hawk, Andy, and Lucy; following Snakeskin Cooper through seedy motels; the mystery box shenanigans — feel like discordant, random threads.
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In 2014, Cordova directed Silent Parade… or The Soul Rebels Band Vs. Robert E. Lee, in which the Soul Rebels Band — a brass band from New Orleans — played, in freeform improvisation, to a statue of the Confederate soldier, in a discordant melody of frustration, despair, and real joy, too.
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Enjoy: Big Joanie describe themselves as being "like The Ronettes filtered through 23s DIY and riot grrrl with a sprinkling of dashikis" and I'm not sure I can really explain this accomplished, joyful, discordant debut album with anything better than those words, so I'll just leave this one here.
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Emerging markets are known for their wild, discordant swings, but this mini-rally in Turkey, brief as it may be, highlights just how much risk yield-starved investors are willing to take on when $258 trillion worth of bonds of governments around the world are offering up negative returns.
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Americans are sorting into clusters of the same opinions, we choose our media diets so that discordant views never enter our partisan echo chambers, and the major political parties have gotten so adept at gerrymandering that, in essence, our representatives choose us rather than the other way around.
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It was a crescendo finish to a discordant process, and as I slipped at last into the ocean and looked back at flawed, complex and beautiful Rio from the sea, it was easy to feel the buzz of the present; much harder to feel good about whatever comes next.
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And that was before the league embarked, in 2017, on its most discordant season in years, replete with player protests, fan furor over the protests and the highly unusual circumstance of an American president using the country's most popular and profitable sport as ammunition in the country's culture wars.
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But the Polish government's choice to use the forum to showcase its devotion to coal offered a discordant note to the start of the convention — part of the much broader challenge facing Mr. Guterres and others who are urging countries to aim for net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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Although it may be hard to sympathize with the deprivations of the inordinately wealthy, it is every bit as discordant to see midmarket retail chains flanking Billionaire's Row as it is to observe drugstore after drugstore in parts of the city that still adhere to bohemian self-characterization.
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The sparkle and joy have made for a discordant feeling at a White House, where the cloud of impeachment looms even as the halls are decked with 22 evergreens, 14 golden magnolia topiaries and 10 floral urns, all "dusted with fresh-fallen snow," according to the first lady's office.
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Director Rosemary Rodriguez (Jessica Jones) has chosen a discordant, leisurely pace, one that seems dictated more by Negan's ominous strolls around the Sanctuary than by what is — we're told — the Alexandrians' sense of urgency about having only one day to find supplies before the Saviors return to collect.
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Composed by Tsukerman in collaboration with Brenda Hutchinson and Clive Smith, the consistent, mechanical music of the opening, coupled with several slow, steady zooms, offers the feeling that the film is gradually progressing toward a goal or a reveal, but its discordant melody creates a sense of unease regarding the destination.
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LONDON — No one expects negotiations over Britain's exit from the European Union to go smoothly over the next two years, but a German newspaper's account of a dinner last Wednesday between the British prime minister, Theresa May, and senior European Union officials suggests that round one, at least, was particularly discordant.
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Yet much like the tropes of queer literary lust that populate the final half of the novel (the Sulking Straight Top Who Sodomizes Without Fear of Feces), even this halting dialogue never feels wholly out of step with Wallace's psyche, which itself functions in discordant, sometimes off-putting, thrillingly contradictory ways.
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FROM PEN: Andy Cohen's Top 5 Most Revealing Plead the Fifth Answers Grant credited his parents with instilling in him proper manners and an appreciation for fine tailoring (his father, Elias, pressed suits), but the Leaches' marriage was a discordant one—until the day that his mother, Elsie, completely vanished from Archie's life.
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I guess now I've learned a couple of cowboy chords, but I try not to write with that stuff, because I feel like the best stuff that connects people to Band of Horses are these songs that have these discordant, quirky elements and weird-ass tunings that make no sense to anybody else.
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Even careful religious statements like those of Mrs Merkel would go down badly with most British voters, and Thatcher-style lectures on the Good Samaritan would be even more discordant; but Mr Cameron still found it worthwhile, during his election campaign, to address a meeting of Nigerian Pentecostalists and swap Bible stories.
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The album has a discordant edge to it, almost experimental seeming in its lack of ambition or bombast, and it's great to see how they both worked to improve upon the formerly leaked song "Views from the 6," which is now titled "You with Me." The songs of Views are all, undeniably, Drake songs.
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And though, at times, the mishmash of looks felt slightly discordant (and items like a half-jersey, half-shimmery oversized tee and going out tops that resembled Kendall Jenner's 21st birthday get-up felt a bit unnecessary), overall, it's easy to see these pieces catching on as quickly as ones from his previous collections have.
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For the paint-hungry eye, "Democratic Beauty" and "The Remnant of Spirit" are the most satisfying works in the show, but the uniformity of their surfaces eliminate the discordant factor in the artist's discourse, which produces, if not a softening effect, then a very different viewing experience — a less fractious yet thoroughly recognizable Lasker.
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This slightly implausible meet-cute (in the age of Tinder, how many people fall in love after bumping into each other in the rain?) segues into "Not the Drugs Talking", the soundtrack's lead single – a discordant, fast-tempo dance track that wouldn't be out of place on Bloc Party album's Intimacy or A Weekend in The City.
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Whether or not you believe that philosophy, you can see how fundamentally discordant it is with the liberal belief that restrictions on access to guns — whether banning certain types of guns, mandating waiting periods, preventing certain individuals from obtaining guns, or eliminating public ownership of guns altogether — will decrease mass shootings, accidental shootings, homicides, and even suicides.
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In his pocket, primed like bombs, were his own compositions: in germination from his teenage years, when he had fallen under the spell of Stravinsky's percussive, discordant "Chant du Rossignol", and tested from 1946, when he was in charge of music for a decade for Jean-Louis Barrault and Madeleine Renard at their avant-garde theatre company.
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One of his odder invocations of his experience in Afghanistan came in the following debate, where he took an uncharacteristically sharp and discordant jab at Beto O'Rourke, who had praised his military service, during a back and forth about O'Rourke's mandatory buyback proposal, which O'Rourke insisted Democrats should support regardless of polling and the advice of political consultants.
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Like the songs they wrote, Albertine's stories of this era are discordant and in-your-face, revealing in short, intense bursts how the punk scene came together via art school students, shabby squats, and "the Shop," Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren's boutique Sex, on the King's Road—part hangout, part shrine, staffed by assistants in fishnets and bondage gear.
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The dueling political events on Tuesday were as discordant as they were separate: The president and his first-term secretary of state sidestepped the email issue at their rally, where Mr. Obama clasped hands with his onetime rival and predicted victory in the fall, making no mention of Mr. Comey's dramatic announcement in Washington faulting Mrs.
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The melodic strains of lilting Gaelic sing-songs certainly made for more pleasant listening than the discordant Anglo-Saxon howls coming from the streets of Marseille and Lille, and so – by virtue of not beating each other about the head with barstools – Ireland supporters were praised to the heavens on both sides of the Irish sea.
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Mr. Trump has never troubled himself with keeping a presidential mien during times of national crisis, whether it was wildfires in California, shootings in Chicago or the racial clashes in Charlottesville, Va. But even by his standards, his remarks in the White House before a crowd of a few hundred mostly African-American activists were discordant.
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That Mr. Rohatyn had come to this country as a World War II refugee, that he had forged a singular life in public service in gratitude for what America had given him, that he listened passionately and brought discordant voices together to harmonize in the name of the city's resurrection — this was the theme of Mr. Bloomberg's warm appreciation.
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Of all the surreal things I've seen during Super Bowl telecasts in my lifetime — the wardrobe malfunction, Left Shark, whatever in the world they're doing to poor Mr. Peanut — I'm not sure anything feels more discordant with the way we live today than the fact that Bill O'Reilly interviewed President Barack Obama before two Super Bowls.
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This devotion has blossomed in two releases of Fairon's own music this year: one LP of new music on the European label Entr'acte, Musique Isotype (it dropped in early July); and a coming reissue of a 20163 cassette, Réalisme Electronique, on the Parisian label Charivari (the term for a French folk custom where communities perform noisy, discordant, mocking serenades).
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In attendance was a young Vic Reeves (real name: Jim Moir) who could be found hopping around the muddy fields charged up on amphetamine and exhilarated by the savage music he was hearing from the stage: a ferocious and unearthly mix of discordant punk, dense dub, propulsive funk – a mutated sound that has since come to define post-punk as a genre.
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The discordant statement not only flew in the face of Roanoke's status as a destination for refugees—it's home to a refugee resettlement program that's found homes for Bhutanese, Bosnians, Iraqis, and Somali Bantu in recent years—but it also disregarded the contributions of the many Syrians who migrated to the city in the last decade of the 22011th century and the first decade of the 2100th.
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They reflect a point of view that does not, strictly speaking, actually exist in the wild, and the algorithmic attempt to compress the various hugely discordant things that our culture "likes" produces something so inverted and weird as to be, on its own, frankly avant-garde—we see a diverse crew of attractive young TV detectives smilingly hitting the nae-nae while standing over a horrifically mutilated corpse, say, and just change the channel.
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The only way to make sense of the resulting din—the grim rumbling of a sour, scolding media apparatus, the airless synthesized americana of various NFL-aligned advertisers, the denatured waiting-room Mantovani of the league's own brand managers, some discordant and disturbing and increasingly loud noises coming from somewhere within the walls and ductwork—is to understand that it's the sort of music that the league's bizarre billionaire owners enjoy listening to.
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That said, for the Ghanaian people, the timing felt regrettable, and the message discordant, as the country neared the crescendo of its designated "Year of the Return, Ghana 2019" — a marketing campaign to the American and diaspora community launched 10 months earlier by the country's president, Nana Akufo-Addo, to mark 400 years since the first recorded arrival of a slave ship from Africa to the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia in August of 1619.
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"Hungry Ham" is the second track on Ferg's forthcoming sophomore release Always Strive and Prosper, with the rapper tell-taling about his childhood growing up in Harlem (according to an interview with Ferg for Complex, "Hungry Ham" is a nickname for Harlem's "Alexander Hamilton Playground," on 143rd Street.) Underneath Ferg's raspy raps, Skrillex keeps a tight leash on the beat with anxious trap claps and a discordant tone that underlines the tension throughout the track.
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The show itself feels a little discordant, vacillating between the works that take on literal aspects of magic in an art historical manner, such as a 1947 letter from René Magritte, "Letter to André Breton," which discusses magic in the context of Surrealism, and those that are more conceptual, like "Base magica — Scultura vivente (Magic Base — Living Sculpture)" (1961), by Piero Manzoni, which purports to transform whomever stands in the designated footprints into a work of art.
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David is a man with a mission, and his most prominent foils, Melanie and Syd, are women with missions too — shepherding his residual child-self through the sex-and-death madness of his mind (including a memorable sequence in which David's present-day girlfriend attempts to shield his juvenile self from the sight of his adult body having sex with his old flame, which is every bit as odd and discordant as it sounds) and rescuing him from the gruesome beings infesting his thoughts.
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The practical effect of the feds' new framework, which more closely resembles a loose best practices guide for the states than a cohesive national plan, will be a regulatory arms race among the states and the major regulatory jurisdictions within each–how best to address interstate travel amid a complex matrix of discordant laws; how to settle passenger liability in autonomous taxis; and whether to remove outmoded laws that would impede adoption, like anti-platooning rules or those requiring the presence of one hand on the steering wheel.
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But both of Hastert's immediate successors – Speakers John BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE and Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE – left the Speaker's chair frustrated by managing the discordant House Republican Conference – like "herding cats" as Trent Lott, the former Senate Republican Leader, would say.
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Born out of a sense of crisis — members of its core team were previously volunteer D.J.s at the University of San Francisco's station until the school's administration suddenly locked them out and sold its license to a classical music network for $3.75 million — KXSF is relishing the challenge of staying live on the air at 102.5 FM. For Carolyn Keddy, one of KXSF's co-founders, that's meant plenty of disinfecting wipes, but not a second thought given to changing up her own show's steady diet of discordant punk and garage rock.
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