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The dissonant cannons together with Star Spangled Banner sound even like satire to me.

'microtones' is a funny word because it covers both consonant and dissonant sounds.

And certainly it is not only the colors that are outlandish, boldly dissonant and flirting with the insane.

What made Cocoa so joyful to work with while years of previous Java and MS coding were dissonant painful experiences?

That's where it feels dissonant to me: Google addresses mega-mass markets rather than luxury, to the point it degrades their products.

Modern "academic" music is typically quite complicated and dissonant, and requires a great deal of skill on the part of the musicians to play: it sounds like crap.

Python's pragmatism has always appealed to me, so the ivory tower reaction to the practical concerns around the GIL really seem dissonant.

Indeed, the way we write asynchronous callbacks is cognitively dissonant with everything we've been trained to understand about scoping.

The prelude of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde has a dissonant chord which resolves to another dissonant chord, and it totally blew everybody's mind.

Minor nitpick, given the author's stress of not comparing apples to oranges I think the motivating anecdote on protein folding struck a dissonant cord.

You can then go outside the key to add tension with dissonant notes by picking a new "abstraction".This reduction in the number of chords in the song then lets you play with abstractions on the chords being used.

The fact that they have reached this position by exploiting international labor conditions is dissonant with the glowing opinion of them in the American press.

That's pretty much TL;DR of your comment....Python's pragmatism has always appealed to me, so the ivory tower reaction to the practical concerns around the GIL really seem dissonant...I feel like they are being dragged into it though.