Sentence examples for opaque figures from inspiring English sources

The former depend on actors as dramatic delivery systems; the latter present actors as opaque figures of gesture.

We expect our jazz heroes to be solitary, dyspeptic, opaque figures, but Jones is so open — and so quick to lionize his fellow-musicians — that he seems transparent: you can see a whole world of popular music in him.

Throughout these experiences, August remains a curiously opaque figure.

Rose Mary is more of an opaque figure; laser-sharp one day, maddeningly obtuse the next.

His very distinctive style might be a good fit with the more opaque figure you now present to the world.

Ai Weiwei himself is a rather mysterious, opaque figure, but utterly confident and unafraid of state bullies.

Dern has played a lot of disagreeable cranks in his time, but Woody Grant, the semi-senile retiree who keeps trying to walk from Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska, to pick up a supposed million-dollar prize, is an almost opaque figure.

Younger executives, who mainly saw Loeb at the company's annual retreat, at the Ojai Valley Inn, found him a remote, somewhat opaque figure, but his view of risk was clear.

Yet all these years and political miles later, the man — hailed by The Observer as "one of the most electorally successful and effective party leaders of all time" — remains a curiously opaque figure.

Stone's movie can't hope to match the palm-sweating tension of Citizenfour, Laura Poitras's original documentary interview with Snowden – Poitras is played by Melissa Leo here – but it's a forthright attempt to engage with this fascinating, opaque figure and show what it cost him personally.

The TEM analysis of the neuronal cells from substantia nigra demonstrated an intact neuron with well-defined nucleus that has a well-delineated peripheral nuclear condensation, which is densely opaque (Figure 9).