Although this may have represented an admirable attempt to unify discordant elements of a personality or a society, it looked contrived as a finale.

All the discordant elements in the Holland household could not prevent the children from growing up.

But he had imagined the return as a reunion with no discordant elements.

Ayaz's work brings together different and discordant elements.

It must then destroy it itself any elements discordant with its destiny.

He was the great discordant element in our horde.

This ability to coax synthesis out of apparently discordant elements served Fechin well in everything but his marriage.

Something about it disturbed him - not the obvious facts of its shock and tragedy - but some discordant element, something that didn't ring true.

The only discordant element were the oafish, unwelcome Glaswegians, who failed to understand the social niceties.

A small discordant element that his subconscious mind must have registered.