The beginning violin students filled the air with a loud dissonance. From LearnThat.org.
The reason for this dissonance is the loophole larded corporate tax code here in America. From Wordnik.com. [Wonk Room » Republicans Falsely Argue That Surtax Would Disproportionally Affect Small Businesses] Reference
The cognitive dissonance is making me psychologica. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
Or maybe the dissonance is constructive tension for your blog. From Wordnik.com. [The IQ Revolution?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Its power rests in dissonance and as such it refuses explication. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Debate] Reference
We borrowed the term cognitive dissonance from the psychologists. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
The cognitive dissonance is making me psychologically uncomfortable. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
But cognitive dissonance is a favorite pastime of people who preach about Evil. From Wordnik.com. [Bring your own examples.] Reference
That level of cognitive dissonance is definitely the sign of a schizophrenic break. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Powerline: The “Dumbest Bit of Political Analysis” We’ve Seen in a Long Time] Reference
That's where the dissonance is greatest, it seems to me, and the public interest weirdest. From Wordnik.com. [A Conversation with Anna Quindlen about Rise and Shine] Reference
I underwent surgery in Bangkok in 2007 and am happy to say that my gender dissonance is now much reduced. From Wordnik.com. [Introducing our new guest blogger…] Reference
Cognitive dissonance is the idea that when people do something painful, they become more committed to the goal. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Irrational' Way Humans Interact With Dentists] Reference
The dissonance is the conflict between the desire and the lack of action to satisfy it. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Mark Kleiman Guest-Blogging] Reference
Cognitive dissonance is quite a powerful motivation in every person’s view of the world (including my own). From Wordnik.com. [Comedy Central Accepts Political Ad - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
What we see here is a perfect example of cognitive dissonance, which is a trait common to all right-wing followers. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Beck admits he doesn’t give ‘a flying crap about the political process. … We’re an entertainment company.’] Reference
Your cognitive dissonance is hilarious. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Why the Budget Will Never Be Balanced] Reference
And that kind of dissonance is no longer acceptable. From Wordnik.com. [11/05/2007] Reference
Yeah, we don't need that kind of dissonance at this point in the race. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Webb's Veep Tour Comes To Manhattan] Reference
Your cognitive dissonance is astounding. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Cheney: If You Don’t Support Everything I Do, You Aren’t Serious About Terrorism] Reference
A pleasant kind of dissonance comes of drinking in the Mash Tun. From Wordnik.com. [TODAYonline] Reference
An example of that kind of dissonance transcendant thinking can be practiced at home. From Wordnik.com. [Cobb] Reference
"dissonance" I died (I think), and the game ended. From Wordnik.com. [SFFaudio] Reference
The result of this dissonance is cynicism all around. From Wordnik.com. [Political Dissonance] Reference
As the series proceeds, the music of promise turns to the dissonance of reality. From Wordnik.com. [When Heaven Turned To Hell] Reference
"There's dissonance between what researchers study and what patients need," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Chasing Cancer] Reference
Periodically, controversies arise when people are forced to confront this dissonance. From Wordnik.com. [A Black President Before a Black ‘Bachelor’?] Reference
But it is at the very least worth pointing out the cognitive dissonance at work here. From Wordnik.com. [Madonna, Demi and other women I'd like to show their age] Reference
And it's true: There's a dissonance between Bristol's real life and her public persona. From Wordnik.com. [Bristol Palin’s Abstinence About-Face] Reference
"It's called cognitive dissonance," explains Dr. Alan Keck, a psychologist from Orlando. From Wordnik.com. [Be a Grown-Up] Reference
Unfortunately, there seems to be a cognitive dissonance between the leader and his people. From Wordnik.com. [After The Dalai Lama] Reference
Narrative, or melody, was beside the point, but so too was all-out exploratory dissonance. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Talents] Reference
But the dissonance between the president's ratings and the popular mood wasn't right, wasn't normal. From Wordnik.com. [America Changes The Guard] Reference
So there was this weird dissonance between the founding of the country and the futuristic evolution. From Wordnik.com. [Fast Chat: A Writer's 'Bones'] Reference
Which is, ironically enough, exactly how your cognitive dissonance will be served after watching it. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
There's this dissonance in your head, because the expectations go so far up when it looks so realistic. From Wordnik.com. [Not Quite HAL 9000, But It Vacuums] Reference
The French exemplify cognitive dissonance, a mild mental illness common to, indeed pandemic in, democracies. From Wordnik.com. [European Fudging] Reference
There is, though, a curious dissonance between travel as an ideal and modern industrial tourism in practice. From Wordnik.com. [Why Can't We Get Away?] Reference
And its theme is still the dissonance between the world as sane people expect it to be and the world the Nazis made. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Out Of The Silence] Reference
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