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  • In our youthful years we still venerate and despise without the art of NUANCE, which is the best gain of life, and we have rightly to do hard penance for having fallen upon men and things with Yea and Nay.

    Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

  • Who yammer on about 'cut and run' and 'bring it on' Grade school 3 letter words which are SO IMPACTFUL, because they lack NUANCE or TRUTH.

    Maureen Dowd Devotes Whole Column To Edwards' Hair 2009

  • Rather, it's for those Frenchified US diplomats, the biggest girlie-men of all - (NUANCE ALERT: this is the Bush administration's perception of the State Department, not ours) - THEY'RE the guys the Bushies now want to rely on.

    07/26/2005 2005

  • CHUCK BERGER, CEO, NUANCE: It saves a lot of money.

    CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2005 2005

  • NUANCE—A subtlety is slightly different in concept and requires discernment.

    The 28 Laws of Attraction Thomas J. Leonard 1998

  • NUANCE—A subtlety is slightly different in concept and requires discernment.

    The 28 Laws of Attraction Thomas J. Leonard 1998

  • NUANCE—A subtlety is slightly different in concept and requires discernment.

    The 28 Laws of Attraction Thomas J. Leonard 1998

  • NUANCE, _f. _, couleur; variation d'intensité d'une couleur.

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

  • And her voice was as flexible as her body; equal to any demand, capable of every NUANCE.

    The Song of the Lark Willa Sibert Cather 1910

  • The orchestra, which has taken a great liking to me, is very efficient, and possesses great skill and fairly quick intelligence, but it is quite spoilt as regards expression; there is no PIANO, no NUANCE.

    Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt Tr 1888

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