All 7 Uses of
nuance
in
Underworld by DeLillo
- The system flows forever onward, automated to priestly nuance, every gliding movement back-referenced for prime performance.†
- It was lyrically true as it emerged from Marvin Lundy's mouth and reached Brian's middle ear, unprovably true, remotely and inadmissably true but not completely unhistorical, not without some nuance of authentic inner narrative.†
- When we disliked each other, usually after an evening out, driving home, feeling routinely sick of the other's face and voice, down to intonation, down to the sparest nuance of gesture because you've seen it a thousand times and it tells you far too much for all its thrift, tells you everything, in fact, that's wrong—when we experienced this, Marian and I, we thought it was because we'd exhausted our meaning, the force that drives the alliance.†
- She stood at parapets and wondered who had worked the stones, shaped these details of the suavest nuance, chevrons and rosettes, urns on balustrades, the classical swags of fruit, the scroll brackets supporting a balcony, and she thought they must have been immigrants, Italian stone carvers probably, unremembered, artists anonymous of the early century, buried in the sky.†
- In cities you build a language of circumspection and tact, a thousand little intimations, the nuance that has a shimmer of rubbed bronze.
*nuance = subtle difference
- EPILOGUE DAS KAPITAL Capital burns off the nuance in a culture.†
- Is the memory thin and bitter and does it shame you with its fundamental untruth—all nuance and wishful silhouette?†
Definition:
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(nuance) a subtle difference (a minor difference not obvious or important to most people)