The phrase 'nuances were lost' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when referring to the subtle details of a subject or event that are overlooked or forgotten. For example, "As time passed, many of the nuances of the original story were lost."
I was seventeen and some of the nuances were lost on me.
Such fiscal nuances were lost upon many in the stunned congregation, including the Rev. Martin Carter, the 71-year-old pastor of Our Lady of Victory Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
They punched out text messages with their thumbs with blinding speed, and used expressions and emoticons, like smilies and musical notes, whose nuances were lost on anyone over the age of 25. "It's not that they had a desire to write and that the cellphone happened to be there," said Chiaki Ishihara, an expert in Japanese literature at Waseda University who has studied cellphone novels.
In genuinely bringing crystal clarity to the room, no nuances were lost.
Such human nuances are lost on conservative warriors of the Allen-McCain-Palin ilk.
Never having donned a Pringle jumper in anger a lot of the nuances are lost on me, so I treat the commentary largely as not unpleasant background noise.
If nuances are lost, let it be said that "Songs of Paradise" offers sufficient English commentary and explanation, coupled to its timeless stories enacted in the universal languages of comedy, rhythm and melody, to provide good-natured theater for a wide audience.
The nuances are lost in time.
To be fair, while it is fairly common to use the same last and first name in some cultures, as evidenced by this quick search of LinkedIn, I'm sure there are very few foreigners in Palo Alto, where Quora is based, so clearly these cultural nuances are lost on the admins.
But a company executive who was standing nearby said that all the context and nuance were lost in translation.
Several former employees and employment lawyers, though, said the nuance was lost on them.
