Scientists have conjured up the undefined and totally opaque ideas of both "dark matter" and "dark energy" to explain the inconvenient energized expansion of the universe.
Civil War historian Blair Worden comments that "Vane's opaque political ideas and religious beliefs are now barely intelligible", and biographer David Parnham writes "He presented himself as a 'witness' of light, as a spiritualist, as one dispensing advanced wisdoms in the epistemological setting of an imminent and apocalyptic age of the Spirit".
But for Mitchell: "If you do too much symbolism it makes the window to the ideas opaque".
And while it's nice that Mr. Lemaire doesn't throw the Hermès luxury in your face, there remains something opaque about his ideas.
Turning up its nose at both geography and the nation state, social networks are the perfect accompaniment to that opaque soup of ideas known as globalisation.
This is both the most effective option and the most "scalable", since a hotter Earth would simply require a bigger or more opaque parasol.The other ideas suffer from fundamental limits that stop them being scaled up indefinitely.
Partly inspired by the Greek myth of the flaying of the satyr Marsyas as well as the book "Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight," in which the author Timothy Pachirat went undercover to work at a slaughterhouse, this opaque production loosely explores ideas about animal cruelty, the battle between nature and technology and, ultimately, the role humans play.
In Benjamin's theoretical model, children are responsive not only to their social environment, but also to ideas with opaque meanings (mandates, expectations, prohibitions, exhortations, etc).
The idea that an opaque government might come to dominate global capitalism is unappealing.
In late February, for instance, the Bundesbank, the country's central bank, condemned the idea as an opaque inter-governmental transfer.Whether buy-backs would help is in any case unclear.
