Elsewhere, metadata can also be used to illustrate more opaque information about us.
Unlike the physical obstacles to reaching the moon, the physiological causes of obesity and their remediation are more opaque: In theory it's all about calorie consumption vs. expenditure; in practice, it's not quite so simple.
But the Chinese military operates in ways that are far more opaque than Western armed forces, Pentagon officials say, leaving the United States uncertain about the exact size of China's military budget or its long-range military goals.
Verizon is more opaque, with a terrible website.
The density of the ionized gas is about 1/1,000 that of air at Earth's surface, but it is much more opaque, because of strong absorption of light by the hydrogen ions.
"This information is even more opaque in many of the plan materials available to policyholders".
Mucus in healthy individuals is more opaque than water.
Each album or EP they release gets less literal, less concerned with story and lyrics and more about musical experimentation, more opaque and richer for it.
"The financial markets have become more and more opaque and so we don't know enough about where the weaknesses are and what the magnitude of those weaknesses may be," Mr. Kaufman said.
In "Le Cargo," Linyekula, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, plays the casual charm of his speaking voice against the more opaque suppleness of his dancing to tell a story about struggling to connect with his ancestors.
Put simply, the more we think we know about Hollywood's most intriguing screenwriter, the more opaque and mysterious he becomes.
