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Nuance   /nˈuɑns/   Listen
Nuance

noun
1.
A subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude.  Synonyms: nicety, refinement, shade, subtlety.  "Don't argue about shades of meaning"






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"Nuance" Quotes from Famous Books



... years to feel the spell that one word, nay, one glance from Christ cast upon St. Peter. Nor again is it always in some striking and notable crisis that a character reveals itself abruptly, but often in the merest nuance—a manner, an intonation, something quite unintentional, unpremeditated. We know well, if we know ourselves at all, how irresistible is the impression created on us at times by such trifles, and yet how more ...
— The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) • George Tyrrell

... delightfully dressed, and, to the casual observer, looking just as usual, but in her costume there was just that nuance of difference—what was it?—extra sobriety, a more subdued look—some trifle that she had worn last year to suggest to the seeing eye a hint of praiseworthy economy?—at any rate, a shade that other young married ...
— The Limit • Ada Leverson



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