Sentence examples for opaque appearance from inspiring English sources

This was his forbidding, opaque appearance in his Oscar-winning The Color of Money (1986), playing an older version of his pool-playing outlaw in The Hustler, now gruffly teaching a brash Tom Cruise.

Zirconia core materials are usually coated with translucent veneering porcelain to cover their opaque appearance.

While Namil showed transparent endosperm as a typical non-glutinous rice, the endosperm of Suweon 542 had chalky texture with white opaque appearance (Figure 1A).

This loss affected a few microns of the depth and could be responsible for the porous, rough and opaque appearance, due to a change in the macromolecular structure.

The opaque appearance and presence of the Tyndall effect in suspensions of nanoparticles can be indicative of the formation of nanospheres by nanoprecipitation method and can be explained by the Gibbs-Marangoni effect [65].

Its main use is as an opacifier, conferring a white, opaque appearance to ceramic materials.

Texturizing processes make yarns more opaque, improve appearance and texture, and increase warmth and absorbency.

Wax has been a staple of contemporary artmaking at least since Jasper Johns used it in the 1960's, but usually to produce an opaque, slick appearance.

Indeed the manner and tone of what was, in the extraordinary circumstances of a post-whitewash debrief, a masterfully opaque public appearance, are perhaps the wider story.

I know ice that is opaque in appearance has been allowed to sit still during the freezing process: the thick white sheen is created by bubbles that have formed in the water.

Head rice ratio (HR, unbroken and broken translucent grains with at least 3/4 of a whole grain) and chalky rice ratio (CR, grain with an opaque, chalky appearance covering half or more of the body of the grain) were calculated using an RN-300 (Kett, Japan).