Sentence examples for opaque heart from inspiring English sources

But it may be that Toibin's very nature, his own fascination with high tragedy and his admirably fierce moral objection to the kind of secretiveness and closetedness that once ravaged him, as it did so many of us, makes him unable to get to the deep opaque heart of Henry James -- the elusive and frustrating thing that got him going about James in the first place.

On the contrary: I found The Assassin's balletic mystery and poise entirely engaging, although I had to confess that it was too opaque to capture my heart in the way that it had captured others' hearts at Cannes this year.

The heart remains opaque and while the anticipated denouement does materialise, it only provides a partial explanation.

I have enormous admiration and respect for this very beautiful, glacially poised film, although it was sometimes too opaque to capture the heart as well as the head.

Beyond the vague aim of "lifting up his brokenhearted brothers one by one," the workings of Shlomo's heart remain opaque.

Set to a variety of Gypsy and folk music, interspersed with Bach's Goldberg Variations, "Middlegame" evokes a Pina Bauschian world of male-female power games, bizarre encounters and opaque affairs of the heart.

Although these recent developments are promising, they remain ultimately limited by the transmission of light: many small animals have opaque exteriors and/or the heart is located sufficiently deep that there is insufficient visible light transmission to form an image.

Steady, solid and opaque, with a history of heart problems that his friends say will keep him from ever seeking the presidency, Mr. Cheney seems dismissive, if not disdainful, of the traditional view about the public obligations of his job.

"A Story of the London Fog" not only situates the film in a smoky, sensuous atmosphere (as well as immediately suggesting its visual counterpart), but summons up immediately the opaque moral compass at the heart of the plot.

Frozen hearts embedded in opaque tissue fixation material were thawed, cut into small pieces (approximately 3 mg), and then placed into lysis buffer.

In this production, at least, the heart of that narrative remains opaque.