Both Uses of
nuance
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- When he took her arm he felt strangely as if he himself were suspended in the room, somewhere near the light fixture, watching them both from above, noting every nuance and detail: how she trembled with a contraction, how his fingers closed so firmly and protectively around her elbow.†
p. 10.2
- David always said Lexington was like the limestone on which it was built: layers of stratification, nuances of being and belonging, your place in the hierarchy fixed in stone long ago.†
p. 128.5 *nuances = subtle differences
Definition:
a subtle difference (a minor difference not obvious or important to most people)