In a sentence
Six example sentences with nuance, each labelled with its topic.
A half step of vibrato is the whole nuance between a note that sits still and one that aches.
Music
The appeal turned on a nuance in the word knowingly, which the two courts had read in opposite ways.
Law
Toasting the cumin for thirty seconds adds a nuance that raw ground spice never brings to the same stew.
Cooking
The whole argument turns on a nuance between believing something and merely accepting it for the sake of discussion.
Philosophy
Translators lose a nuance whenever the original has two words for a feeling that English covers with one.
Literature
Printing on matte paper keeps every nuance of the shadows that a glossy sheet would flatten into black.
Photography
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