It has been the sort of news that autocracies produce: resignations and appointments, the reshuffling of opaque men and often obscure names.
Yet, for all its additions to the record, Rowley's biography seems irritatingly opaque; neither the man nor his achievement comes into focus.
What you saw when you looked.' " Among other things, "Cad" is billed as a guidebook for women who find men opaque, and several passages serve to explain the ways of man to woman.
The actors playing the guards and interrogators are nonentities with beefy faces; they are just as opaque as the men who have fallen into their hands.
He responded testily to questions about WikiLeaks's opaque finances, Private Manning's fate and WikiLeaks's apparent lack of accountability to anybody but himself, calling the questions "cretinous," "facile" and reminiscent of "kindergarten".
This approach means that Brook the man remains opaque but it does allow for a rigorous focus on the work.
It's a function of the man's opaque and vaguely unnerving manner that one wonders if this is a euphemism.
Ms. Mamizadeh, a nonprofessional still in her late teens when the movie was made, is especially amazing in a scene where, for reasons destined to remain opaque, she buys a man's shirt at a shop in the bus terminal.
But the tissues of mouse and man are opaque and neither organism is particularly genetically tractable.
One man selected in opaque circumstances to head the project, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, and another man similarly plucked from obscurity, Sir Hayden Phillips (no relation), have together appointed an "appointment panel".
