Quotes About Nuance

The new king of the Protestant Establishment, featured on the cover of Time, was Reinhold Niebuhr, a New Yorker and bona-fide intellectual comfortable with nuance and ambiguity who didn't believe in the biblical miracles, including Jesus's bodily resurrection, or even in individual heavenly eternal life.

Is it good or bad?" she asked Issa. The wrong question, she knew. She just couldn't help herself. "It's both, sweet girl," said Issa. "like everything.

Madrigal sniffed herself. "I'm almost sure I don't smell." "Maybe not, but between shining cleanliness and not smelling, there is a vast gray area.

Forget black and white and try on gray. In hair color, wardrobe or life choices, it may feel more enlivening than you imagine.

Mais l'endoctrinement en bas age peut marquer un individu à vie: "ces écoles mettent les enfants face à un seul schéma de pensée, en réduisant au minimum leur vision du monde.on leur apprend que rien n'existe en dehors du bien et du mal, toute nuance est effacée", précise le docteur chérif.

O kitsch é a única forma de linguagem possível se quisermos comunicar com as massas, porque simplifica tudo e não apresenta nenhuma nuance.

What we're told about this country is way too limited by generalities, sound bites, and even the supposedly enlightened idea that there are two sides to every question. In fact, many questions have three or seven or a dozen sides.

What we're told about this country is way too limited by generalities, sound bites, and even the supposedly enlightened idea that there are two sides to every question. In fact, many questions have three or seven or a dozen sides. Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two, and those who don't.

I like to play the grey areas in life - that's the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes to be in that in-between state where there don't know what's going to happen. There's a lot of tension in that, and a lot of stuff to play with - where it's uncomfortable and awkward and sad and scary.

As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.

Human behavior is an enormously complex set of things, and that mixture of underlying things is different for different people, so it's not just complex, it's meta-complex.

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands.

On a live-action movie, things happen that are unexpected. In animation, you have to fabricate the feeling. That takes a tremendous amount of nuance until the film becomes sentient and gives back.

The deepest of powers are often the most subtle. Something that most fail to realize... ?

Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator

The more specific you are the more general it'll be.

The very act of saying anything more nuanced than 'us good, them bad' is under attack, and I'm proud to stand with artists who do.

More than the length, it's the meat of the character that is more important. It does not matter if you are on screen, standing in the corner for the whole film, as opposed to doing something that stands out in two scenes.

I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.

O foolish man, for God doth detect every nuance of the sick will!

Essentially these books consist of asking the reader to forget about the forest of Churchill's life and instead focus on a few trees that a given writer believes deserve more attention