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- noun Plural form of
shading .
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Examples
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We have just suffered through 6 months of "shadings" of meanings (much less the entire decade of the 90s with the Clintons lying).
Poll: Nearly Half Of African Americans Want Hillary On Ticket 2009
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The only trouble about it is that the singers have to take care of details and shadings which is too often the least of their worries.
Musical Memories Saint-Saens, Camille 1919
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The only trouble about it is that the singers have to take care of details and shadings which is too often the least of their worries.
Musical Memories Camille Saint-Sa��ns 1878
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He has matinee-idol good looks and an attractive lyric voice of emerging shadings that, with careful cultivation, could put him on track for solid success in the song repertoire.
Rodney Punt: Schubert's Winterreise from Le Salon de Musiques Rodney Punt 2011
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He has matinee-idol good looks and an attractive lyric voice of emerging shadings that, with careful cultivation, could put him on track for solid success in the song repertoire.
Rodney Punt: Schubert's Winterreise from Le Salon de Musiques Rodney Punt 2011
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The trim, 58-year-old Lucinda had some of the rough shadings and cracks in her voice that make her so expressive, but she delivered with a new purity and power that made the audience that had taken her deep repertoire of literate songs into their hearts almost as giddy as teenyboppers at a Justin Bieber concert.
Art Levine: Lucinda Williams Brings Blues, Heartache and Protest to Washington Art Levine 2011
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The trim, 58-year-old Lucinda had some of the rough shadings and cracks in her voice that make her so expressive, but she delivered with a new purity and power that made the audience that had taken her deep repertoire of literate songs into their hearts almost as giddy as teenyboppers at a Justin Bieber concert.
Art Levine: Lucinda Williams Brings Blues, Heartache and Protest to Washington Art Levine 2011
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His Menezes song plays with a lot of those shadings; it's not a protest song exactly, more an attempt to get inside the paranoia of the event.
Elvis Costello: 'I've never liked the word maturity. It implies decay' Tim Adams 2010
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The trim, 58-year-old Lucinda had some of the rough shadings and cracks in her voice that make her so expressive, but she delivered with a new purity and power that made the audience that had taken her deep repertoire of literate songs into their hearts almost as giddy as teenyboppers at a Justin Bieber concert.
Art Levine: Lucinda Williams Brings Blues, Heartache and Protest to Washington Art Levine 2011
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The trim, 58-year-old Lucinda had some of the rough shadings and cracks in her voice that make her so expressive, but she delivered with a new purity and power that made the audience that had taken her deep repertoire of literate songs into their hearts almost as giddy as teenyboppers at a Justin Bieber concert.
Art Levine: Lucinda Williams Brings Blues, Heartache and Protest to Washington Art Levine 2011
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