To avoid any "unharmonious" discord (i.e., save face), the government agent refused to tell me: a) who had complained, b) what entity, if any, could hear an appeal and c) the specifics of what, precisely, constituted structural alteration. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Can our hero foil the discordant plans before they crescendo into an unharmonious climax of untold evil? ❋ Unknown (2010)
Mr. Sha, who was previously China's U.N. ambassador, is known for his unharmonious outbursts; at a meeting in September he told his boss, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, "I never liked you." ❋ Unknown (2010)
Practice 3: Minimize all the unnecessary or uninspired sound vibrations in your life—gossip, mindless television, talk radio, unharmonious music. ❋ Jeffrey Armstrong (2010)
Syndromes is pure - to the extent that I don't believe that there's a wasted moment, extraneous visual, or unharmonious cut, and that everything you see comes from the genuine expression of a painter and philosopher who just happens to use film as his medium. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Here, Ann's emailer might not have put blog in quotes because he believes a "highschool girl' s diary" is not worthy of such a title, but rather because he believes the very word "blog" is an annoying, unharmonious contraction of weblog. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
The Georgia code did not purport to make new law, or to “graft upon our system any new features extracted from others, and unharmonious with our own.” ❋ Lawrence M. Friedman (1985)
“They hope that there will be no unharmonious voices during the Olympics period,” said Hu Jia, an activist and co-founder of a nonprofit Beijing AIDS group. ❋ Unknown (2007)
If someone temporarily forced him into a direct look by speaking to him, then this extremely unharmonious face, jagging angularly in all its features, would become somewhat reserved, wily, shifting, and downright hypocritical. ❋ Enowning (2007)
Easing from beneath her, he followed the short, blaring notes, gritting his teeth against the unharmonious clatter. ❋ Jennifer St. Giles (2006)
Explaining why, as Lamb's neighbor, he would sometimes catch sight of books that had been sent sailing over the trees growing in their shared garden, Thomas Westwood suggested that those rejected volumes were "unharmonious on [Lamb's] shelves" and "clashed, both in outer and inner entity" with the books ❋ Unknown (2004)
Nay, when we run over a book with our eye, we are sensible of such unharmonious composition; because we still imagine, that a person recites it to us, and suffers from the pronunciation of these jarring sounds. ❋ Unknown (2006)
His diction was not only inelegant, but frequently ungrammatical, always vulgar; his cadences false, his voice unharmonious, and his action ungraceful. ❋ Unknown (2005)
An unharmonious and rugged period, at this time, shocks my ears; and I, like all the rest of the world, will willingly exchange and give up some degree of rough sense, for a good degree of pleasing sound. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The music is sometimes not unharmonious; and when heard in the stillness of the night and mellowed by distance, is often soothing and pleasing. ❋ Unknown (2004)
