What is "shadings"

Usage examples of "shadings".

His truthsense, awareness of tone shadings, told him that Kynes was lying and telling half-truths.

A pitched language is the mark of a very old civilization, with plenty of time for shadings and nuances in expression of ideas.

He had got used to distinguishing the natives by the variations and shadings of their velvety fur and eye markings.

The stone of the walls in its muted shadings matched the serenity of grey she had built inside.

No compensation, or even dream of it, for her, no chance to act, only the pain, so many shadings of it.

She felt the others registering it, in all their shadings of grief, anger, and hurting love for the thing marred, seeing that clear image of Daniloth defiantly alight, open and undefended amid an alien landscape of ice and snow.

But this morning’s sensation was intense enough, so laden with overtones and shadings of long-forgotten emotions, that he thought it had to be Cernan calling him.

They were both familiar with power, Kim knew, in a great many of its shadings, but what she had just told them, what she had done, had to be alien and almost impossible to grasp.

Too dense this weaving, too laden with shadings and textures and a myriad of intermingled threads, both warp and weft, for any emotion to be truly unmixed.

It recorded minuscule shadings of difference around him--a slight change in moisture, a fractional fall in temperature, the progress of an insect across their stilltent roof, the solemn approach of dawn in the starlighted patch of sky he could see out the tent's transparent end.

And Paul was passed from embrace to embrace through the troop, hearing the voices, the shadings of tone.

It recorded minuscule shadings of difference around him — a slight change in moisture, a fractional fall in temperature, the progress of an insect across their stilltent roof, the solemn approach of dawn in the starlighted patch of sky he could see out the tent's transparent end.

VOICE: that combined training originated by the Bene Gesserit which permits an adept to control others merely by selected tone shadings of the voice.

But already the lines and shadings were beginning to pale, and he who was once Allanon shimmered with the translucent and ephemeral inconsistency of smoke.

He constructed the image with lines and shadings, coloring in the gaps, giving himself life and strength and determination.