This was not an opaque vase, of material however costly, but a lamp chastely lucent, guarding from extinction, yet not hiding from worship, a flame vital and vestal.
Happily some one—Madame, I think, with her usual calm sense—had brought a lamp from the room; speedily, therefore, as they came up, a ray pierced the opaque blackness.
At the zenith, where the fog was less thick, gray shades bordered the clouds; under an opaque belt, a luminous line clearly traced the horizon.
Between these beautiful trees sprang up clusters of firs, whose opaque open parasol boughs spread wide around.
She sat to-night revolving, as she was wont, the scenes of the day, her lips often curling with amusement at the oddities to which her fancy added fresh drollery: people were so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's were transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy.
They were sombre blues, opaque like a delicately carved bowl in lapis lazuli, and yet with a quivering lustre that suggested the palpitation of mysterious life; there were purples, horrible like raw and putrid flesh, and yet with a glowing, sensual passion that called up vague memories of the Roman Empire of Heliogabalus; there were reds, shrill like the berries of holly—one thought of Christmas in England, and the snow, the good cheer, and the pleasure of children—and yet by some magic softened
c) Find yourself sitting in a seat where your job is to trade any illiquid, opaque product with a three-letter acronym.
Google and Facebook should be forced to open up their 'complex and opaque ' advertising business, so that online news publishers can make enough money to survive, a report has warned.
According to a statement yesterday, Mr Mourinho did so "with the aim of ob-taining an illicit gain" and after setting up a deliberately "opaque" company structure to manage the earnings from his image rights.
A set of concentric rings, alternately transparent and opaque, will scatter and spread light waves in a manner that causes them to reinforce each other some distance away, and thus form an image.
Taking into account ten different aspects of style - including color, neckline and train - he said the luckiest dress would have 'a shiny or sparkly opaque black sheath dress with a train, worn without a belt or a wrap'.
Amal kept comfy in a sweater dress that skimmed her stomach as well as opaque black tights and boots.
Conversely, foreign countries are opaque to mostly monolingual Britons and Americans.
Brexit may mean Brexit to Theresa May, but the Oxford English Dictionary has come to the aid of those who wish for a less opaque definition.
A set of concentric rings, alternately transparent and opaque, will scatter and spread light waves in a manner that causes them to reinforce each other some distance away, and thus form an image.
" A spokesperson for the internet privacy group Access Now told Politico the group feared that the choice to hand over social media information was not really a choice at all, and that the program could act as an opaque entry point for more exacting probes.
Brexit may mean Brexit to Theresa May, but the Oxford English Dictionary has come to the aid of those who wish for a less opaque definition.
These defects are not present in the printing of linoleum in which opaque oil colors are used,colors that neither sink into the body of the hard linoleum nor tend to warp the roller.
Its report says: "Relatively opaque codes of conduct extend to dress.
While financial figures may be impossible for outsiders to obtain, other measures have come to be reference points in the opaque world of start-up finance.
