Some contained a single pathological lesion that might be commonly encountered perhaps a palm-shaped shadow of a pneumonia, or the dull, opaque wall of fluid that had accumulated behind the lining of the lung.
Newman [13] mentions these two types of chromium oxide green, their appearance varying from "a dull opaque olive green to an intense, transparent, somewhat bluish green".
This paint varies from a dull opaque green tone as seen on the left edge of the canvas to a more vibrant hue as seen on the finger print to the right edge, suggesting that Magritte was using different greens simultaneously and possibly both types of the chromium oxide.
Some hungry genius melting its owner from the inside out makes some sense; such raw brilliance inhabiting a player as opaque, affectless, and dull as Derrick Rose is something else entirely.
In 1926 he recorded: "When it came to me, the panel was considerably larger at the top, and dull opaque sky concealed the join where the extra piece had been added on to satisfy some owner who did not appreciate the compressed composition of the original.
"Maybe," the character named David Wallace posits, "dullness is associated with psychic pain because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there".
In the new novel, a character comments, "Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain, because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from".
In the undrawn state, nylon is usually dull and opaque; as the filaments are drawn and molecular orientation increases, the filaments acquire the transparency and lustre characteristic of drawn nylon.
Once it was on the ground, the moon was a pockmarked, sandy boulder, so dull and opaque that it was incredible to think that it had once illuminated the sky with its shining reflection.
The government enshrouds the details of its surveillance programs in a technical vocabulary ("reasonable articulable suspicion," "seeds," "queries," "identifiers") that renders them too dull and opaque for substantive discussion by civilians.
"Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain," Wallace wrote at one point, "because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from".
