| The music's density is intriguing, its rhythmic energy is compelling, and its harmonic complexity and dissonance is unusual for Reich. |
| There's cognitive dissonance between our professed support for meritocracy and our behaviour when our own children are involved. |
| Penrose's device offers a way for anyone to see the harmony and dissonance that musicians can readily hear. |
| Actually, this is a whole lot like what I just described in terms of cognitive dissonance and syncretic religions. |
| The idiom is essentially tonal though dissonance, bitonality, and, occasionally, polytonality are liberally used. |
| For this reason, power chords are often used when using fuzzboxes to reduce dissonance. |
