Example sentences for: nuance

How can you use “nuance” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The magazine explains why the president's poll numbers are so high: 1) he courts them ("like a kid who gets straight A's by flattering the teacher"); and 2) polling questions are phrased with a calculation and nuance that are positively, well, Clintonesque.

  • WASP started off with a pejorative nuance, it seems to me, but has been accepted so smugly by white Anglo-Saxon Protestants that the term has been appropriated by some people it doesn't fit, for instance Americans of German or Irish descent who may be agnostics of Catholic background.

  • To miss the crucial element of emotive charge that even a simple, one-syllable word may convey, to lose or pass over the nuance of meaning is to lose Shakespeare's feeling as well.

  • The New York Times ' Michiko Kakutani comes down the hardest, turning in a scathing review in which she calls the book "an airless, tedious production" that "represents a sharp falling off in ambition, nuance and vision from Mr. Wallace's previous works of fiction."

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