Still, the orchestra was radiant, and Mr. Lippert's attention to nuances of text was admirable.
In the case of the Philadelphia-born Costello, those gifts include a warm, flexible tone, along with a keen sensitivity to the nuances of text and the expressive contour of a phrase.
In music, Mannerism expressed itself through spirited, even exaggerated, responses to the nuances of poetic texts: abrupt contrasts, outré harmonic progressions, and other disruptions of the smoothly churning surface of the high-Renaissance style.
It is true that we are reading a 16th-century political treatise by a retired diplomat, and not a Robert Ludlum, but translations can let things slip through their fingers, fail to grasp the subtleties or nuances of a text.
The original and the back-translated versions were then compared to ensure that the meaning and the nuances of the text were conserved.
He has a great sensitivity to nuances of language and texts.
A Ph.D. in chemistry is a rigorous degree, while a preacher can explain the Bible on television without mastering Hebrew or Greek — or even showing interest in the nuances of the original texts.
But much of his singing is touchingly sincere and, as always, constantly sensitive to every nuance of the text.
The music characterizes every nuance of the text: the fecundity of the earth opening to produce a Savior; the shepherds' awed hush, turned to sympathy, at the sight of the baby in the manger.
Translators may capture nuances of meaning in a text, but Paterson is out to make a poem that operates with its own musicality, building a particular sort of "sense" of its own.
