# When does nuance become waffling?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-nuance-become-waffling/174819
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [May 12, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-nuance-become-waffling/174819 "2003-05-12T23:21:56Z")
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### Author: ![GoHeels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@GoHeels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoHeels)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-nuance-become-waffling/174819/1 "2003-05-12T23:21:56Z")

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Nuance, at face level, seems admirable. At its best, I think nuance equates to being able to see an complex issue from a number of perspectives, thereby increasing the chances of seeing “The Truth.”

Nevertheless, at some point, nuance taken to extremes becomes equivocation or even waffling.

So, at what point does nuance become waffling?

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### Author: ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-nuance-become-waffling/174819/2 "2003-05-13T00:30:55Z")

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I produce a nuanced report.

You tend to waffle in your presentation.

He throws up a smokescreen of irrelevant trivia to obscure his failure to take sides.