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- adjective Having
nuances ; possessed of multiplelayers ofdetail ,pattern , ormeaning
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Examples
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But something more nuanced is happening, a slow erosion:
Sunday Reading 2009
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Linkbait has similar problems as TV news shows that interview extremists from both sides because that makes better television than interviewing moderates as they explain nuanced views.
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I have not seen the War Within but how you could describe what looks like a piece of Agitprop to me as either subtle or nuanced is beyond me.
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If the conception of the “Arabic-speaking world” had been properly nuanced from the outset, “15 Arab countries and one Israel” would have been a nonsensical thing to say in the first place.
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What a banal, reductive and limiting "moral" for a novel so extraordinarily rich in nuanced dancing around doubleness of meaning, around the virtual inaccessibility of a stable and verifiable truth of the matter, around the edgy if muted excitement of female independence and imaginative play!
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New York University journalism professor and prominent new media expert Jay Rosen was promoting the privacy debate in recent tweets and tweeted to me that the privacy debate is "nuanced" -- perhaps more nuanced than I can appreciate.
Kirk Cheyfitz: Axing the General and the Journalist: Was Their Privacy Violated? 2010
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New York University journalism professor and prominent new media expert Jay Rosen was promoting the privacy debate in recent tweets and tweeted to me that the privacy debate is "nuanced" -- perhaps more nuanced than I can appreciate.
Kirk Cheyfitz: Axing the General and the Journalist: Was Their Privacy Violated? 2010
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X people offer jobs to those they recognize, by certain nuanced clues, as members of their creative tribe, which makes people fear that they might mistransmit a code — bringing us back to Fussell’s rubric of class being announced in clothing, lifestyle, and speech.
Class Dismissed 2009
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I stay with my rainbow melange of towels which makes me alternately happy in nuanced ways depending on if it’s a pink/orange/seafoam day.
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X people offer jobs to those they recognize, by certain nuanced clues, as members of their creative tribe, which makes people fear that they might mistransmit a code — bringing us back to Fussell’s rubric of class being announced in clothing, lifestyle, and speech.
Class Dismissed 2009
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