Sentence examples for opaque landscape from inspiring English sources

Such interrogations had once been infrequent, but since the informal conversation around the table began to fade with the abrupt onset of adolescence, these parents had found that forced, trying questions were the only means available to them of getting a sense of the strange, opaque landscape existing inside the growing heads' of their children.

The end to the proliferation of new laws and new offences; the simplification of an opaque policing landscape; the reversal of the incipient rise of a risk-averse culture; and a shift away from framing policing policy in terms of inputs (bobbies on the beat) and towards outcomes (value for money) to name just a few.

Overall, the results indicated that Britain was not only trailing the U.S. by a huge margin, but had one of the most opaque policy research landscapes in Europe and, indeed, worldwide.

In Gerard David's Canon Bernardijn Salviati and Three Saints (NG1045) (Fig. 5) a mixture of copper sulphate mineral with lead white and lead tin yellow is used for the lighter more opaque greens in the landscape, while the darkest greens in the leaves are applied on top in verdigris.

A profusion of wonderful pieces from this period includes vessels embellished with landscapes and still lifes, like the gorgeous 1899 Japanese-style bowl that is decorated inside and out with landscapes in opaque and metallic eosin glazes.

Here, as in later works throughout the show, free-hand ink painting gives way to stiffer figuration and bright opaque colors, and open landscapes are more and more punctuated by steeply tilted buildings whose sumptuous interiors become central.

While Russia has taken great strides in improving its economy and increasing scrutiny of its financial system, its economic landscape remains relatively opaque.

In the wild, the vegetation or the landscape may provide multiple opaque objects.

The electric vehicle landscape has never looked more opaque.

We provided a group of homing pigeons with training experience in which they viewed, through a single transparent vertical face of an otherwise opaque release box, an approximately 140° segment of the landscape for 5 min before release.

The darkness comes with great variety, from an opaque, inky blue to a moonlit silver that flattens the familiar landscape into an exotic silhouette.