Sentence examples for an almost opaque from inspiring English sources

Every door and window on all three floors was covered with an almost opaque sheeting of bars.

On extension of the work to include thinner films, it was observed that not only was there an increase of opalescence on treatment with a typical liquid such as acetone but also that after a certain time, afterwards referred to as an induction period, an almost opaque front was seen to move across the sample.

More intriguing are the often odd images he made in Mexico under the influence of André Breton's idea that "beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all": a blurred couple, limbs intertwined; a woman silhouetted by the sea whose wind-blown jacket resembles wings; an almost opaque cardigan drying listlessly on a clothesline.

Dern has played a lot of disagreeable cranks in his time, but Woody Grant, the semi-senile retiree who keeps trying to walk from Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska, to pick up a supposed million-dollar prize, is an almost opaque figure.

It is an unusual, almost opaque, musky-flavored and very filling drink, served in special elongated glasses with a huge head of foam.

They appear dark to almost opaque when viewed under an optical microscope.

"A Devil at Noon," written by Anne Washburn ("The Internationalist," seen at the Vineyard Theater) and directed by Steve Cosson of the Civilians, is an almost wholly opaque sci-fi fantasy apparently taking place in the psyche of a novelist in Berkeley, Calif.

It looks like Chinese business as usual, and will be an almost entirely opaque process, as unclear in its implications after it is over as it is before it has begun.

One of his personal highlights was the see-through pajamas worn by Barbra Streisand to the 1969 Academy Awards, which caused a scandal, even though the outfit appeared almost opaque in person.

Maybe that wasn't exactly it, but we were distracted by the huge mound of dead bees littering the ground around the exhibit's focal point – a diseased hive behind protective glass so filthy it was almost opaque.

Notwithstanding the clever characterisation, the real triumph is Faber's restrained, almost opaque prose.