Sentence examples for opaque past from inspiring English sources

After returning to the United States, Ms. Lifton, long haunted by her opaque past, contacted the agency that had handled her adoption.

The legacy, though, has been a far greater sense of uncertainty; the future seems as opaque as the past was built on shifting sands.

In "A Family's Affairs," which centers on three generations of women in the first half of the 20th century, Ms. Douglas was concerned with the construction and perpetuation of mythologies — the small ones that percolate within families and the large ones spun by entire societies — and the role that myth plays in rendering the past opaque.

Macroeconomic management has been less opaque than in the past.

Ballot boxes are transparent, not opaque as in the past, and voters dip fingers in tell-tale indelible ink.

When patrons enter past an opaque plastic curtain they've already passed a wall of stacked boxes.

The opaque innovations of the recent past, rather than eliminating market inefficiencies, unintentionally created systemic risks.

Kornél Mundruczó's work has in the past been self-conscious, opaque and implausible.

One learns to ramble through his labyrinthine series of Wunderkammer, speeding past what looks unreasonably opaque, pausing here and there to enjoy some mesmerizing bit of trivia.

In the past the tanks have been opaque.

In the past, the British used an opaque and politically convenient "public interest" test to evaluate proposed mergers.