Two years later, Nuance merged with ScanSoft.

The media are no remedy, as competition for ratings forces them to favor oversimplification over differentiation, complexity, and nuance.

Without this nuance, an American citizen who is armed now has no obligation to withdraw when faced with a threat.

The difference between what the French call laicité and secularism is more than a linguistic nuance for Turkey, which adopted its Kemalist system not long after France entrenched its secular republic.

The tragedy of such thinking is that it does not allow for any moral and political complexity or nuance, yet that is exactly what will be needed if the many problems surrounding Iran are to be resolved.

This means that the Hu Jintao administration could well have its hands tied, and find itself unable to pursue some kind of compromise solution to a situation that is already fraught with nuance and complexity, and which shows no sign of getting easier to manage with the passage of time.