Dissonance

Where there’s evidence of cognitive dissonance—and a family member voting for someone seeking to harm people they love is certainly evidence of cognitive dissonance—there’s also an opportunity.

Dissonance is becoming a hallmark of the 21st century.

Even though their music wasn’t as fast as Dundrum, Pain Thinner carried the pit well with a heavy moaning guitar and a high-pitched tone from the singer, creating a welcome dissonance and fueling the musical chaos.

For all the work we've done as a society towards recognizing that fatness isn't a moral failing, in a display of tremendous, collective dissonance, we still view thinness as a moral good.

I challenge you to read his report without experiencing cognitive dissonance and throwing up your hands thinking the genie is already out of a million bottles.

It’s at the center of Winner’s final film, “The Boy,” a hauntingly beautiful short that captures the dissonance of life along the Israel-Gaza border.

The cognitive dissonance is astounding.

The recently lifted weight from your shoulders will make you feel like you conquered the planetary dissonance and this confidence will ensure that you ace your midterms, Virgo.

We can find resonance in dissonance.

Addressing a media conference here, the CEC, to a question on the perceived delay in holding Assembly elections in J&K, cited the “dissonance”.

All these women are tent poles holding aloft their respective clans against the lashings of social dissonance, political uncertainty and the discrepancy in wealth that would engulf them if left unchecked.

But you can easily understand the cognitive dissonance some were experiencing at the time.

Cognitive dissonance can be exhausting, and there’s a lot of that going around the herd these days.

It’s a strange form of cognitive dissonance.

Jack Davy, a British curator, miniature dissonance to criticize the practice of exhibiting them all together with little context, like souvenirs on a table.

Julia Roupe, a senior at BU, said she experienced a similar dissonance when she first started her office job in Brookline.

Our acceptance of capital punishment is another example of the horrifying cognitive dissonance that infects much of this country.

That was the vatnik heads exploding with the cognitive dissonance.

The program features Mozart’s “Dissonance” Quartet (don’t worry, it’s not that dissonant) and Franz Schubert’s fiery farewell to the form, his G-Major Quartet.

This betrays either widespread confusion about Church teaching, the emotional and psychological effects of cognitive dissonance, or both.