Sentence examples for opaque phrase from inspiring English sources

The meaning of this opaque phrase would grow murkier over the course of many drinks, but one must make allowances.

One error in punctuation, or one opaque phrase, may not cause you to miss out on a job opportunity.

Why would the president pluck an opaque phrase from the lips of lawyers and besuited executives to articulate the lofty principles on which his nation was founded?

At a recent meeting with investors, Kraft's CEO Tony Vernon and its "VP of Breakthrough Development" Barry Calpino explained what they meant by that opaque phrase: they're going to do less.

But retailers fret that the opaque phrasing of the new law could mean wholesalers are affected as well; that would wipe out more than half of the country's distribution chain.

Whether his conduct amounts to fraud will likely turn on the opaque phrasing of e-mails and the doubtful credulity of an oligarch, but the damage to the art market lies in Bouvier's effrontery, the crassness of his gains.

They have spent centuries mastering the fine art of diplomacy and evolving a language within a language where there are 13 opaque phrases to describe a bilateral meeting that went badly.

Hauser & Wirth, W1, Thu to 10 Jan SS Light sculpture tends to conjure to mind something conceptually hard-headed and aesthetically cool: minimalist fluorescent tubes or opaque phrases written in white light.

For a document about "strengthening transparency," it is exquisitely opaque, favoring phrases such as "parametric concentration-response models" and "spatial heterogeneity".

Joe Amrhein's colorful, vertical stack of words on transparent vellum pokes fun at itself and at opaque artspeak with the phrase "a grab bag of techniques and media".

I find the term to be a bit of opaque wonkery, a phrase that's meaningless to those who aren't already steeped in healthcare politics, and I don't think I'm alone.