Sentence examples for opaque look from inspiring English sources

The phrase "opaque look" is correct and usable in written English.
It usually refers to someone's expression or gaze, which can be difficult to interpret or read. For example, "He gave her an opaque look when she asked him the question."

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You can control the angle you see through it: look at an angle, and it's opaque; look straight and it's transparent".

Well known for its use by the dour Old Master Andrea Mantegna, it produces a suave, tactile surface but an arid, opaque look.

To understand "The Daedalus Effect and other dilemmas," Arturo Vidich's latest work — an opaque look at technology and the birth of any creation — it doesn't hurt to brush up on a little Greek mythology.

But where, in the typical contemporary memoir, the troubled youth and the alienated father would silently acknowledge their vexed journey toward expertise and adulthood, he merely gave me an opaque look and asked if I was really sure this was a good idea, and had I run it by Mom? "Your reflexes are a bit funny, Dad," he said.

The carefully crafted shots of 23rd-century London are satisfyingly slick, and you have to wonder if this visceral, hyperreal style of sci-fi might be better suited to Peter Jackson's 48 frames per second innovation than a fantasy film such as The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, which tends to lend itself to a more opaque look.

In general, Gothic Lolitas eschew sheer nylon or tights, favoring an opaque look instead.

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Why? — long answer: Computers are quite opaque, looking at them it's impossible to see how they work.

"Computers are quite opaque, looking at them it's impossible to see how they work," wrote Newman.

The video has a semi-opaque look that lends itself so well to nostalgia, looking both contemporary and vintage.

In the left panel, we also provide an example of what the opaque overlay looked like.

For strategies 5 and 6, no specific predictions were tested, but we would at least expect that if one of these strategies is used, monkeys would copulate more often behind than in front of an opaque object, looked at from the perspective of the alpha male.

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