"It's an opaque and difficult question," says Mr. Kristol.
If you are given to labeling forbiddingly opaque statements with question marks, your margins will easily inherit 70 or more — many more if you are less forgiving.
But none is more important — and for now, more opaque — than the question of where Mr. Xi and the next generation of leaders want to take China's economy, which is still growing rapidly but shows signs of stress and structural instability, economists say.
Gibbons' comments about pushing Microsoft services on "feature phones" is opaque on the question of what Microsoft does with Nokia X devices — and whether new CEO, Satya Nadella (pictured below with former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, who's now been brought back into the Redmond fold), is willing to give Nokia's "Lumia feeder" strategy some breathing room (or not).
In convoluted and sometimes opaque answers to lawyers' questions, Cardinal Law repeatedly insists that he had no idea priests in his archdiocese were abusing children.
Some of the questions are opaque at best: "has your doctor told you that special rules apply to your condition?" is one which flummoxed the woman this morning who has cancer; the script specifies that I should not offer an explanation of the term unless I'm asked.
The detractors, including Le Figaro's food critic François Simon, question its opaque decision-making and accuse inspectors of being unashamedly biased towards French tradition.
They call the art world's opaque social rules into question, taking the life of a troubled woman and offering it back to an art market that had no interest in her while she was alive.
The fact that many of us willingly create and delete our own fictions, endless surfaces that are reflectively opaque, raises a leading question.
Then, using opaque wording, the head of legal services suggested I trade him information about Tierra Nativa in exchange for answers to my questions.
