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  • Unfamiliar with the nuances of the cocaine trade, we had no idea that it was a drug plane when we first saw it.†   (source)
  • And this must be especially so, when those with newfound power are men who distrust any form of hesitation or nuance, and who prize self-assurance above all.†   (source)
  • Every nuance and quirk of personality achieved greater brilliance in that lush enclosure than would have been possible anywhere else in the world.†   (source)
  • It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavors, in the air or on the tongue, half-colors, too many.†   (source)
  • The indistinct murmur of voices heard through a carpeted floor surpassed in clarity a typed-up transcript; a conversation that penetrated a wall or, better, two walls, came stripped of all but its essential twists and nuances.†   (source)
  • These were attached to a battery of electronic equipment—imagery intensifiers, rhythmic modulators, alliterative residulators and simile dumpers—all designed to heighten the experience of the poem and make sure that not a single nuance of the poet's thought was lost.†   (source)
  • Even a light "How are you" was a nuanced question, without it seeming to be; and my invariable answer ("Fine") he could read easily enough without my having to spell anything out.†   (source)
  • A girl texting and walking forgot the nuances of the latter and almost ran into me.†   (source)
  • As I see it, the battle lines are between the idealized, superficial and insular-minded way of looking at the world (which many schools and mainstream culture impose on our children and the rest of us), and the actual conditions of our lives with all its multiplicity, struggle, shading and nuance.†   (source)
  • Exhausted but deeply fulfilled, Mack paused and closed his eyes for a moment, trying to etch the details of Missy's presence indelibly into his mind, hoping that in the days to come he would be able to bring back every moment with her, every nuance and movement.†   (source)
  • An obvious artillery target, thought Kassad, and then reminded himself that this particular military nuance did not yet exist.†   (source)
  • No nuances.†   (source)
  • I was never more aware of Sayuri's Kyoto dialect—in which geisha themselves are called geiko, and kimono are sometimes known as obebe—than when I began to wonder how I would render its nuances in translation.†   (source)
  • But I still think that if you run your life the right way, you'll wear out the black and the white before the more nuanced colors.†   (source)
  • Think about it we should, though, since once we know the pattern is in play, we can start looking at variation and nuance.†   (source)
  • We didn't give a damn about the nuances.†   (source)
  • The nuances of vampire existence weren't even available to him because he was focused with a maniacal vengeance upon the mortal life he'd left.†   (source)
  • To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.†   (source)
  • This was called neighboring, she told Paul, managing to invest a pleasant word with unsuspected depths of nuance: suspicion, contempt, bitter amusement.†   (source)
  • It was no mystery, he argued, that refugees didn't yet fully grasp every nuance of the American judicial system, or understand every last bit of local traffic code.†   (source)
  • If suicide in the West is a kind of crude language, in Micronesia it has become an incredibly expressive form of communication, rich with meaning and nuance, and expressed by the most persuasive of permission-givers.†   (source)
  • The nuances of Paul's greeting were not lost on the Reverend Mother.†   (source)
  • Gideon, in turn, had said that Wendy was "a vulgarian, who lacks the nuance to know why it's not good manners to grace everybody with lurid details of one's menstrual problems at the dinner table."†   (source)
  • And the nuances of languages—slang and colloquialisms—would take years beyond that.†   (source)
  • —and parsing every word for tone and nuance, as if his sentences are a code I can crack.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Admittedly, she does not at any point in her letter state explicitly her desire to return; but that is the unmistakable message conveyed by the general nuance of many of the passages, imbued as they are with a deep nostalgia for her days at Darlington Hall.†   (source)
  • It was these secondary levels of life, these extrasensory flashes and floating nuances of being, these pockets of rapport forming unexpectedly, that made me believe we were a magic act, adults and children together, sharing unaccountable things.†   (source)
  • It struck her as uncanny that this man who'd never fully known a child of his own should so understand each wounding nuance that passed between her and Grace.†   (source)
  • Only the eyes, from time to time, flashed a signal or acknowledged an unexpected nuance.†   (source)
  • She has learned it well, its idioms, its nuances.†   (source)
  • Cedric doesn't want to get into the nuances of the conflict, but the situation is clearly souring with each day.†   (source)
  • When I told Ben and Ringer all this—minus the part about Evan being inside me, a bit too nuanced for Parish—there was a lot of dubious staring and significant looks from which I was painfully excluded.†   (source)
  • If that came to pass, Carn's magic would be of little help, for the Urgals had a spellcaster of their own, a shaman named Dazhgra, and from what Roran had seen, Dazhgra was the more powerful magician, if not as skilled in the nuances of their arcane art.†   (source)
  • This is an intriguing statistic: the same people who routinely steal more than 10 percent of his bagels almost never stoop to stealing his money box—a tribute to the nuanced social calculus of theft.†   (source)
  • And however objective she might try to be, she may have missed some nuances.†   (source)
  • Lawyers like Wade Lanier who fought on the civil side were well versed in the strategies and nuances of the PTC.†   (source)
  • He and the surgeon of the Bonhomme Richard, an especially companionable man named Bourke, discussed everything from mathematics to rheumatism, Paris, London, the war at home, the war at sea, medicine at sea, the absence of profanity on French ships, and the nuances of the French language.†   (source)
  • You no doubt, somewhere along the line, have had certain historical facts and nuances placed in front of you—†   (source)
  • There had to be sensible nuances to what he was suggesting.†   (source)
  • The comic La Cucaracha is shocking to many and draws plenty of hate mail because it ridicules Hispanic icons as readily as it mocks U.S. politics—evidence that the Latino presence in the United States has evolved to a level with many nuances.†   (source)
  • He studied him for months until he could imitate every gesture and nuance of speech.†   (source)
  • Then he'd clear his throat and give a deeply intoned order, as though each syllable were pregnant with nuances of profoundly important meaning.†   (source)
  • I can nail his nuances.†   (source)
  • He carried a stopwatch, but left it in his pocket; he had an uncanny ability to judge a horse's pace by sight, and he resented any distraction that might make him miss a nuance of movement.†   (source)
  • He listened to every word, every movement, and every nuance of the lovers' fascinating courting ritual.†   (source)
  • Although I had never before worked with the Algerian foreign minister, I had to rely on him to receive and transmit, with absolute accuracy, both the words and nuances of my messages.†   (source)
  • Men's writing has more than 5o,000 characters, each uniquely different, each with deep meanings and nuances.†   (source)
  • The nuance of coding didn't interest him.†   (source)
  • Drizzt hoped that he would be able to understand the nuances of this unusual door, if that was what the mirror actually was, when he examined it from the platform's level.†   (source)
  • Occasionally the eye sees nuances that the ear misses.†   (source)
  • Frankly, I didn't expect that sort of nuance from you, Puller.†   (source)
  • I answered that it was strained, that it attributed nuances to the various conflicting commentaries that were not there, and that, therefore, it really was not a reconciliation at all.†   (source)
  • This is not a nuance.†   (source)
  • This means knowing the victim's habits, schedule, nuances, and security detail.†   (source)
  • I trained Jase to take over the company by teaching him the nuances of duck calls and fowl hunting, and he is still the person in charge of making sure every duck call sounds like a duck.†   (source)
  • We, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, from our young days brought up with him, awakened by a man standing on his saddle, are summoned, and arrive, and are instructed to glean what afflicts him and draw him on to pleasures, such as a play, which unfortunately, as it turns out, is abandoned in some confusion owing to certain nuances outside our appreciation —which, among other causes, results in, among other effects, a high, not to say, homicidal, excitement in Hamlet, whom we, in consequence, are escorting, for his own good, to England.†   (source)
  • Traditionally, the chairman and vice chairman explained the rules and nuances of thehonor system to the regiment's newest recruits.†   (source)
  • The instant the term fragmented individualism was understood, it was completely understood by black men who had lived it in all its nuances.†   (source)
  • I'm sure Sophie missed many of the nuances of his act, but affected by the general contagion, joined me in filling Flatbush Avenue with noisy runaway laughter.†   (source)
  • And then he would do his best to forget the knowledge, for to live with the color bar in all its nuances and implications means closing one's mind to many things, if one intends to remain an accepted member of society.†   (source)
  • Every time I overheard her going on in such detail about stuff like this, the nuances of different brands of flip-flops, or the pros and cons of boy shorts versus bikini bottoms, it seemed like such a waste.   (source)
    nuances = subtle differences (minor differences not obvious or important to most people)
  • In cities you build a language of circumspection and tact, a thousand little intimations, the nuance that has a shimmer of rubbed bronze.   (source)
    nuance = subtle difference
  • Like a surgeon with a probe, she brought forth each nuance of the five minutes I'd spent inside that room.   (source)
    nuance = subtle aspect (part or feature)
  • But what he emphasized in the course of his report were the evening's social nuances.†   (source)
  • No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure.†   (source)
  • Having spent my adolescence in Newport Beach, I learned the many nuances of "tan."†   (source)
  • "No nuances there, only an unproven cliché," muttered Conklin.†   (source)
  • It doesn't purport to tell everything about nu shu or explain all its nuances.†   (source)
  • It obviously didn't take where the nuances of English are concerned," mumbled Morris Panov.†   (source)
  • He played over everything he and Donna had said to each other — he played it over again and again, listening to the words and to the nuances of tone in his mind.†   (source)
  • But with a DOD of 4, only someone schooled in colas is going to be able to pick up on the subtle nuances that distinguish each soft drink.†   (source)
  • What she meant was rather more complex than what everyone else so eagerly understood, and her moments of unease came when she felt that she could not express these nuances.†   (source)
  • All the special training from Hawat and his mother — the mnemonics, the focusing of awareness, the muscle control and sharpening of sensitivities, the study of languages and nuances of voices — all of it clicked into a new kind of understanding in his mind.†   (source)
  • The normal viewers looked at the eyes of George and Nick when they were talking, and they did that because when people talk, we listen to their words and watch their eyes in order to pick up on all those expressive nuances that Ekman has so carefully catalogued.†   (source)
  • He is a small and irrepressible man with the energy of someone half his age, and if you were to talk to people in the tennis world, they'd tell you that Vic Braden knows as much about the nuances and subtleties of the game as any man alive.†   (source)
  • She thinks that what matters with boys is what you say; she's never learned the intricacies, the nuances of male silence.†   (source)
  • I told him how I didn't know the subtle nuances or meanings of Korean names, even though I knew quite a few, that it would have been like naming someone purely by sound.†   (source)
  • These men work six-hour shifts to ensure that they remain alert not only to what is happening in this room and the next but to nuances in one another's behavior.†   (source)
  • Standing apart from First Officer Victor Santorelli's increasingly frantic statements and shorn of Barbara's descriptions of sounds and pauses, the captain's words might allow for the discovery of nuances otherwise not easy to spot.†   (source)
  • ...It's always the nuances, isn't it?†   (source)
  • About the third recess at Yamacraw, I became momentarily inspired to teach the boys the finer nuances of football.†   (source)
  • We are trained to ignore nuances.†   (source)
  • He had an oval, well-larded face and tins, unfriendly, somewhat weasel-like eyes which it seemed impossible to me had gained the confidence of anyone so responsive to the nuances of physical presence as Thomas Wolfe.†   (source)
  • This he would do in a nervous voice, slowly intoning the lines from Whitman and Poe and Frost and others in hoarse, unmusical but clearly enunciated syllables, while she listened with great care; touched often and deeply by this poetry which from time to time brought exciting new nuances of meaning to the language, and by Mr. Youngstein's clumsy and groping passion for her, expressed in faun-gazes of yearning from behind his monstrous prismlike spectacles.†   (source)
  • It was good to be around them, and I studied how people were required to act when they were in love so I would know the forms and nuances of that sweet delirium if and when it happened to me.†   (source)
  • He has always found Timur coarse, lacking in imagination and nuance.†   (source)
  • He needs to catch every nuance of movement.†   (source)
  • I remark that they lack nuance and ambiguity.†   (source)
  • That's just the sort of nuance that has brought me begging to your door.†   (source)
  • He, a master of nuance and sleight of hand, had been played at every turn.†   (source)
  • Yes, it was a job of nuance and erudition, Shalamov said.†   (source)
  • All during her speech, Hunter kept his eyes on her, watching every nuance of expression.†   (source)
  • I guess I didn't expect that sort of nuance from you, General Carson.†   (source)
  • He knew every nuance of his daughter's voice, every expression, every gesture.†   (source)
  • EPILOGUE DAS KAPITAL Capital burns off the nuance in a culture.†   (source)
  • There are more nuanced ways to inflate students' scores.†   (source)
  • In this case, the most important nuance was that she hadn't done it!†   (source)
  • I was shocked by his tears, but by now it was just another horrible nuance I couldn't understand.†   (source)
  • All had to be said, each memorized nuance considered, rendered.†   (source)
  • It was an early nuance of a realization that would take years to face.†   (source)
  • Gottman has taught his staff how to read every emotional nuance in people's facial expressions and how to interpret seemingly ambiguous bits of dialogue.†   (source)
  • Condense fact from the vapor of nuance.†   (source)
  • Gradually I found myself able to look at his lips and block from my mind the discoloring and the scars, and imagine that they were the Chairman's lips, and that every nuance in his voice was some comment on his feelings about me.†   (source)
  • The audience cheered as she strutted down the runway, working every nuance of the rhythm, shaking her behind like a pom-pom, whipping it from side to side.†   (source)
  • She could hear the lilt and glee of nuanced rumors being exchanged between them, the sound of easy intimacy in the air.†   (source)
  • And that's how they know what's going on inside a person's head-by condensing fact from the vapor of nuance.†   (source)
  • He had been raised to appreciate music of sentiment and nuance, music that rewarded patience and attention with crescendos and diminuendos, allegros and adagios artfully arranged over four whole movements—not a fistful of notes crammed higgledy-piggledy into thirty measures.†   (source)
  • She would recall favorite elements from several of his films and then dwell on a particular scene—one that was easily overlooked because it involved a secondary character and just a few lines of dialogue, but that had been rendered with such obvious nuance and care.†   (source)
  • Cedric, listen, someone in this class needs to use the computer," he says in broken English lacking sufficient nuance for Cedric's tripwire sensitivities.†   (source)
  • Never one where Chekhov's talent is matched, nuance for nuance, idiosyncrasy for idiosyncrasy, by every soul onstage.†   (source)
  • Every word, look, nuance.†   (source)
  • Riding Seabiscuit was a nuanced task.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • That's because an expert whose argument reeks of restraint or nuance often doesn't get much attention.†   (source)
  • The system flows forever onward, automated to priestly nuance, every gliding movement back-referenced for prime performance.†   (source)
  • She wasn't sure why, but she sometimes got the sense that the act of reading them aloud had shed light on a nuance or meaning that he had previously missed.†   (source)
  • Is the memory thin and bitter and does it shame you with its fundamental untruth—all nuance and wishful silhouette?†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • As if he had become an accomplice to the suffering provided me by the couple beyond the wall, my father rolled over with a sudden grunt and fell momentarily quiet, allowing my ears access to each nuance of that bliss.†   (source)
  • Here is the horny young bachelor hard at his writing all day, aware only of the pleasant chink-chink of the tools of his peglegged sculptor friend and the smell of chicken and hush puppies frying in the kitchen, his work impelled to even greater flights of exquisite nuance and power by the knowledge, pleasurably roosting at the mind's edge, that the evening will bring friendly relaxation, good food, talk murmurous with down-home Southern nostalgia—all this fragrantly buoyed by the presence of two delightful young women, one of whom in the darkness of the coming night he will make whisper, moan and squeal with joy amid tangled sheets in the hotter tangle of love.†   (source)
  • However, something in that voice—something hurried, peremptory—told her that she would be seeing him almost instantly, and the last words he spoke to the Commandant—every nuance of tone and meaning—were implanted in her memory with archival finality, as if within the grooves of a phonograph record which can never be erased.†   (source)
  • She looked more than her twenty-six years; hard living had roughened her; constant intercourse in a foreign tongue had worn away the nuances of speech; she straddled a little as she sat by the fire, and when she said, "It's wonderful to be home," it sounded to my ears like the grunt of an animal returning to its basket.†   (source)
  • Some nuances of character you will have to take for granted in yourself, though you must be careful in confessing them to others.†   (source)
  • "Certain nuances escape Beaufort," said Mr. Jackson, cautiously inspecting the broiled shad, and wondering for the thousandth time why Mrs. Archer's cook always burnt the roe to a cinder.†   (source)
  • Unaware of the practical implications of these events on his life, or perhaps regarding them with childish indifference while trusting that the world would take care of him one way or the other, he betrayed a similarly childish reserve and businesslike attentiveness when viewing coffins, which on this third occasion took on nuances of precociousness, both in his emotional reaction and the look of knowledgeable experience on his face—it being unnecessary likewise to describe his natural reaction of being caught up in the frequent tearful outbursts of others.†   (source)
  • Of the three listening, only Poirot caught the nuance of hesitation in the reply.†   (source)
  • Nobody in the world could put a gentle nuance of irony into a couple of words better than Poirot.†   (source)
  • 'Frenchmen are always polite,' said Miss Henderson-there was the nuance of a question in her voice.†   (source)
  • And then there were— Oh, there were so many things to do to bachelors and she knew them all, the nuance of the sidelong glance, the half-smile behind the fan, the swaying of the hips so that skirts swung like a bell, the tears, the laughter, the flattery, the sweet sympathy.†   (source)
  • I cleaned acres of glass shelving, changing my tempo now to work faster, holding every nuance of reality within the focus of my consciousness.†   (source)
  • He examined the charge sheets, spoke affably to the men who had made the arrest; with the slightest perceptible nuance he opened the way for bribery and quickly covered it when he saw that things had now lasted too long and the knowledge had been too widely shared; he undertook to deliver us at the magistrate's court at ten next morning, and then led us away.†   (source)
  • But it is, we must admit, a very tricky task to explain what this last work, this song, this old "linden tree," meant to him, and the greatest care must be given to nuance, if we are not to do more harm than good.†   (source)
  • His hands, moreover, were rather broad, but ended in long tapering fingernails; and he used them when he spoke (and he spoke in an almost incessant stream, although Hans Castorp could not quite comprehend what was said) in a series of exquisite gestures that riveted his listeners' interest—the subtly nuanced, well-chosen, precise, tidy, cultured gestures of an orchestra conductor— a forefinger bent to form a circle with a thumb or a palm held out wide, but with tapering nails, to caution, to subdue, to demand attention, only to disappoint his now smiling, attentive listeners with one of his very robustly prepared, but incomprehensible phrases; o†   (source)
  • But notions of formulas as prefabricated "building blocks" do not tell the full story, for such language can still create nuance.†   (source)
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