376 examples of discordant in sentences

The result is that modern Switzerland is made up of what might seem to be most discordant and unmanageable elements.

His voice was high-pitchedat times discordant, but capable of agreeable modulation; his general aspect uncommonly youthful.

I had an end in view,I wished to make you reject the poem, only as being discordant with the other; and, in subservience to that end, it was politically done in me to over-pass, and make no mention of, merit which, could you think me capable of overlooking, might reasonably damn forever in your judgment all pretensions in me to be critical.

My tragedy will be a medley (as I intend it to be a medley) of laughter and tears, prose and verse, and in some places rhyme, songs, wit, pathos, humor, and if possible, sublimity,at least, it is not a fault in my intention if it does not comprehend most of these discordant colors.

Though richest hues the peacock's plumes adorn, Yet horror screams from his discordant throat.

All the fables therefore of Plato guarding the truth in concealment, have not even their externally apparent apparatus discordant with our undisciplined and unperverted anticipations of divinity.

The savages came on; and the white men fired, and retreated, loading as they fell back, and again firing; until their pursuers, either wounded or disheartened, came to a stand still, and contented themselves with yelling their discordant war-cry, and shooting arrows, which happily missed their aim.

It was while they were thus happily engaged one afternoon, when Henrich was slowly recovering his strength, that the elder and his young audience were startled by wild and discordant sounds, mingled with cries of fear, which proceeded from the outskirts of the straggling village, and seemed to be approaching.

They sounded close at hand, discordant matins sung by a mob of angry children.

of Palmer to reconcile the discordant elements.

The comedy, I have said, is incongruous; a mixture of Congreve with sentimental incompatibilities; the gaity upon the whole is buoyant; but it required the consummate art of Palmer to reconcile the discordant elements.

At a distance the sound was wild and sweet enough, but rather discordant when you approached too near the performers.' Lockhart's Scott, iv.

But there was no triumph in his bearing as he tuned the atmosphere of that august assembly into absolute harmony, conquering every discordant noteonly a further lowering of the quiet voice, which seemed to utter, unchallenged, the conclusions of each listener.

The vesper bells of Venice came sobbing through the storm, tossed and broken by the tornado into a wraith of a dirge; and now, by some fantastic freak of nature, as the winds rose higher, the iron tongues from every campanilefor a brief moment of horrorcame wrangling and discordant, as if tortured by some demon of despair.

As a divine oracle to us, his voice is silent; ay, his august voice is drowned by the discordant and contradictory opinions that are ever blended with the speculations of the schools.

We may be reminded of the same fact by observing with what accuracy the merchant tailor can distinguish, by feeling, the quality of his goods; how quick a painter, an engraver, or a printer, will discover errors in painting or printing, which wholly escape ordinary readers or observers; and how quick the ear of a good musician will discover the existence and origin of a discordant sound in his choir.

In that temple of respectability where she found herself, in such 'a cloister of social pillars' as Logotheti called the party, he was a discordant figure.

The "dark-skinned daughters of Isis" still sported unmolested in wanton mien with the priests of Cybele in their discordant cries.

They stated the necessity of a common superior to balance the separate and discordant interests of the different provinces.

I shall not attempt to describe a conflict which has been rendered unintelligible by the confused and discordant narratives of different writers.

The intérieur is so large and so well cushioned that it is easy to sleep in it ordinarily, and, had it not been for the sudden stops occasioned by the clogging of the wheels in the snow, we should have had very good rest; but the discordant music made by the wheels as they ground the frozen snow, sounding like innumerable instruments, mostly discordant, but now and then concordant, prevented our sound sleep.

My pulse ain't no ways discordant, is it?

Among so many crude and discordant opinions, I shall endeavour to substitute another more consistent with the true etymology of the word.

The means, too, for keeping these discordant elements in check were ludicrously inefficient.

The present government is composed of such discordant elements, that their very union betrays that they are in fact actuated by no principle, except the general one of retaining their authority.

376 examples of  discordant  in sentences