Sample Sentences for
nuance
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    Like a surgeon with a probe, she brought forth each nuance of the five minutes I'd spent inside that room.  (source)
    nuance = subtle aspect (part or feature)
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    ...with stunning battlefield scenes, and all the nuances of characterization left out  (source)
    nuances = a subtle characteristics
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    In order to give a vivid, nuanced account, I knew I would have to travel with child migrants through Mexico on top of freight trains.  (source)
    nuanced = showing subtle (non-obvious) aspects
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    I learned them carefully, aware of every nuance in their expressions.  (source)
    nuance = subtle difference
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    Her mom always neglected the nuances, of course.  (source)
    nuances = subtle differences
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    Even a light "How are you" was a nuanced question, with out it seeming to be; and my invariable answer ("Fine") he could read easily enough without my having to spell anything out.†  (source)
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    Nuance, strategy, and anything beyond the rudimentaries of technique were wasted on Chris.†  (source)
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    The nuances of Paul's greeting were not lost on the Reverend Mother.†  (source)
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    When I told Ben and Ringer all this—minus the part about Evan being inside me, a bit too nuanced for Parish—there was a lot of dubious staring and significant looks from which I was painfully excluded.†  (source)
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    That's just the sort of nuance that has brought me begging to your door.†  (source)
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    And the nuances of languages—slang and colloquialisms—would take years beyond that.†  (source)
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    But I still think that if you run your life the right way, you'll wear out the black and the white before the more nuanced colors.†  (source)
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    —and parsing every word for tone and nuance, as if his sentences are a code I can crack.†  (source)
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