Subtle meaning

Usage examples of nuance.

Accustomed to reading nuances of speech and slight gestures of body language in order to survive with Amalgamated, Judit had picked up far more from that brief, inconclusive meeting than Viggers had actually said.

They were cold creatures, but her taste of the amber drink, of flying with the darkship, had sensitized her to subtle nuances.

Her brows tilted perplexedly, accenting the nuance of diablerie, delicate and fascinating, that they cast upon the flower face.

Methodical and routine but acutely sensitive to nuances at a scene, Hoey instinctively absorbed details.

Maria sensed that whether Gary had caught the nuance or not, Jake was advising them that if they wanted privacy for a period of time, neither he nor Lea would bother them.

If there were any loverlike nuances between Chessyre and Louisa, Stephen did not appear to notice them.

He had the look of a midlevel academic, perhaps one of those literary moles who compound their pallor in stuffy rooms, stroking the musaceous nuances of E.

The notationists say their number is potentially infinite, and this must be so, for reality itself may be sliced up, viewed, symbolized and reassembled into concepts of infinitely refined nuance and profundity.

English questioning, although Betsy would have said in expertise in a language should lead to vagueness and in exactitudes but Stefan had, with his direct and un nuanced questions, interrogated her thoroughly.

Ginger began to explain in that aggrieved National Public Radio hostess voice she employed when she was obliged, yet again, to set them all straight on still another nuanced and intricate aspect of the case she was constructing.

Rigidly perfect, but moldable to all the nuanced sworls of living ears.

Ogres hardly cared about the nuances of the lifestyles of nymphal creatures.

Mack continued, pretending to sort through the cobwebs of his mind for the correct point of departure, not only fully aware of exactly where he had left off but of the precise order and nuance of each word he was about to utter - written, rewritten, rehearsed, and performed for hours on end each night for the past month before the cracked mirror in his cheap roach-ridden flat on West 103rd Street.

He recognised the basic creakings, but the subtle nuances of the scranchings and the endulating shugs had him cocking his head upon one side.

And after sigling a book, Harman always found that some new data had arrived, but much of the meaning of the book had been lost due to absence of nuance and context.