Meanings of finer shades in English

But Fanny's mind was not one that perceived the finer shades.

But then poor old Tuppy has never been very hot on the finer shades.

We do not conceive that he had any power of discerning the finer shades of character.

But we may avoid finer shades of opinion and disputed classes, and be content with these clear stages.

The finer shades of meaning and real or apparent exceptions can merely be touched upon if mentioned at all.

I alone could follow the finer shades, the mutual play of glance and gesture, the subtle tide of covert battle.

Vachel Lindsay, I suppose, wants millions not merely to love, but to detect the finer shades of the poetic art.

But at the same time it would be idle to deny that he would miss the finer shades of the dramatist's meaning.

She barely had to show him once, and before long he was adding the variations himself-thenuances and finer shades of meaning.

First arose the question of principle: Should Volapük aim at being a literary language, capable of expressing all the finer shades of thought and feeling?

"Bald and tame, with very little knowledge of the finer shades of character," interrupted Mr. Malcolm.

"I remember thinking it cuckoo, but it may be that I missed some of the finer shades."

(1) Lacking history and associations, it is unpoetical and unsuited to render the finer shades of thought and feeling.