Sentence examples for opaque life from inspiring English sources

Roth ruminates on his father's opaque life in this memoir.

It was as if she were saying, 'Come on, be serious, matters not to be joked about.' " Merkel's decision to enter politics is the central mystery of an opaque life.

Sunday's address attracted about 20,000 people in Rajkot alone, who turned their attention to a special stage, where an opaque, life-size "Virtual Modi" walked, stood and, of course, talked.

The details of Mr. Spitzer's previously opaque financial life — along with tidbits about his expenses for household help (modest) and income from academic work (not much) — were revealed in copies of his tax returns from the past two years, which Mr. Spitzer's campaign for city comptroller provided to The New York Times on Wednesday.

In avoiding psychology and presenting the actions of his characters as rough and opaque blocks of life, he also avoids the psychological pointing and plot cues of classical studio-era filmmaking.

Among the many mysteries of the British book world, none is quite so opaque as the life of the ghostwriter, the invisible man or woman who fulfils the vanity of those who want their name on the cover of a book but who, for the life of them, cannot write.

Mr. Butler's internal life remains opaque, which is a shame, because a reader would love to enter this man's head.

The facts of his life are "opaque" and "semireliable," Mr. Szarkowski, a former photography curator for the Museum of Modern Art, writes in "Atget," his elegant new book.

His political and ethical persona remains perhaps the most opaque aspect of a life rendered generally inscrutable through a combination of genius and banality.

She has been appointed on a platform of honesty and transparency, but the old, opaque system creaks into life around her while she desperately scrabbles for a way of presenting the truth.

He came home to spend time with a very large, and sometime opaque, figure in his life.