Sentence examples for oddly opaque from inspiring English sources
What does that tell you?" It's an oddly opaque answer – it's not as if he has a dozen, after all – but pressed to elaborate, all he'll say is, "Well, I was raised a Catholic, and I believe in the teachings and values of Jesus Christ".
And even though the two men come to constitute each other's entire world, their relationship, too, remains oddly opaque: because Homer's blindness never hobbled his life as a young man, his growing dependence on Langley feels hokey and contrived, as does his deference to Langley's more and more antisocial behavior.
They are curiously opaque.
IN A region of opaque politics and oddly named actors, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) lives up to its title.
When Nancarrow returned to writing for live musicians in the 1980's, his music had a more distant and abstract quality, as in the oddly stutter-stepping "Tango?" and the even more opaque "Three Canons for Ursula," which assigns different tempos to the pianist's two hands.
How did Stanford attract so many despite being a complex, opaque operation in a lightly regulated jurisdiction, offering oddly stable returns?They may yet get much of their money back, but the amount left in the pot is anyone's guess.
The Apple event ended oddly, with charmless stage banter between Cook and Bono, who spoke coyly of a vast, opaque commercial transaction, involving free music, between their two organizations.
The country is oddly encumbered, too, with two prime ministers, the incoming one anointed through an opaque process that is not so different from the methods preferred in that harsh, cold country.
Through Oct. 18 The second New York show of the English artist Adam Dant, less opaque than his debut in early 2002, offers various examples of his nerdy, irritating, yet oddly impassioned art-about-art.
