Once the yolks have gone opaque, the eggs are done, thus signalling that the rest of the ingredients are cooked as well.
In some ways it is a microcosm of the way the globalised, tax averse, opaque world of big business and corporate finance has gone in general.
Where exactly the $488m of the American Red Cross's Haiti budget has gone is unclear, Elliott said, since "the whole international aid sector is pretty opaque in general.
This hope and goodwill is the main thing that Egypt's transition process has going for it; it would be a terrible waste to squander it on shoddy, opaque preparation.
The Angolans told him that things had "gone up," or were "tough," opaque words that were supposed to explain each new request for more money.
But in its typically opaque style, it refused to explain exactly what had gone wrong.Vietnam introduced a liberal companies law in 2000, and in the next three years 54,000 private businesses sprang up, creating 1.75m new jobs.
Even sunscreens have gone nano some now contain nanoscale titanium dioxide or zinc oxide particles that, unlike their larger, opaque white incarnations, are transparent, while still blocking ultraviolet rays effectively.
In the end, forced to a choice, I have gone for Bowie's majestic Blackstar for its typically Bowie yet entirely new, alien soundscape and often opaque lyricism.
The decision-making is opaque, the numbers involved are arbitrary, the individual payouts should be kept private, and it is perceived as a zero-sum game: each worker's bonus consists of money that could have gone to the others.
His administration has become opaque and detached.
