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He wrote a subtle, sophisticated and nuanced essay.
Fact-checkers had reached out to Moira Donegan, asking if she was the creator of the "Shitty Media Men" spreadsheet; though Donegan later identified herself in a nuanced essay for the Cut, the knowledge wasn't yet public, and the revelation could have put her at risk of harassment, or worse.
In a lengthy, nuanced essay for the London Review of Books, a version of which he delivered in a lecture in London on Friday, O'Hagan describes working with a mercurial character who was, by turns, passionate, funny, lazy, courageous, vain, paranoid, moral and manipulative.
In a nuanced essay for the Guardian, Lola Okolosie argued that G's reductive caricature of rap culture is akin to modern blackface (we must again go to 50 Cent for the dissenting voice: "A middle-aged white woman rapping along to Dre and Tupac ain't even close to being racist").
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wrote a nuanced, essay-length meditation on the stratified, nonmonolithic financial sector and the complex power gradients contained therein.
Also required is John Edgar Wideman's "Hoop Roots," a stylish and nuanced personal essay on poor black manhood.
In a nuanced Guardian essay, Howard French pointed to the potential for toxic political discourse: "With Trump all but certain to be the Republican nominee, all signs point towards a tense and extraordinarily racialised campaign – and one that will pose a severe test for American journalism, which has been as beset by the crisis of race as the society it claims to rigorously examine".
But this one, which is not a harangue but a nuanced, highly persuasive essay, is very much worth reading and (if you happen to be chairman of a political science department somewhere) heeding.
Taken together, essays provide nuanced paths of introduction for students, and capture the imagination of professional philosophers looking to expand their understanding of the subject.
It's a splendid essay and a nuanced tribute, but as Franzen wrestles with this issue of death and survival in the thin air of high-altitude literary endeavour, something in the British reader's soul starts to recoil.
It takes far more time and energy to express a nuanced reaction to a personal essay than simply writing "Heart" or "Oh, please". Likewise, when a celebrity does something we disagree with, it is easier to condemn him with a one-word takedown than to empathize with his humanity and communicate a more complex reflection.
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