Hester gives a slightly opaque answer - saying that he cannot think of further criminal activity off the top of his head.
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".
Nor does this approach get us any more than the solution reported as an opaque answer that cannot be unpacked into the method that solved it (provenance).
The writer sent him questions by fax and got back mostly vague and opaque answers.
In convoluted and sometimes opaque answers to lawyers' questions, Cardinal Law repeatedly insists that he had no idea priests in his archdiocese were abusing children.
Opaque answers and the reply of "I don't know" are now regular features at Spicer's daily press conferences, which have been memorably lampooned by the actor Melissa McCarthy on NBC's Saturday Night Live.
He ducked two roundabout inquiries with opaque answers and knowing smiles before he was hit with a blunt "Is Kim Jung Il in China these days or is he not?" "Up to this moment, I have no information to deny what you said," Mr. Kong said, again smiling, "but we don't have any authoritative information to confirm".
Although the caravan's origin story remains somewhat opaque, the answer from many migrants here is that they had wanted to leave for months or years, and then — in a Facebook post, on a television program, in a WhatsApp group — they saw an image of the growing group and decided.
So not all plain sailing, given that it takes 18 months or so to get there, and sometimes in really difficult cases you might have to go there twice if the CJEU comes up with a particularly opaque set of answers first time round.
Just like with Mr. Trump, we'll have to wait and see if Mr. Zuckerberg will assume responsibility and accountability, or if we'll keep on getting opaque and elusive answers, mostly amounting to "It's not us, it's our algorithm", or "We're just a software company, not a publisher".
Ben-David was recruited to the Mossad after answering an opaque advertisement placed in an Israeli newspaper.
