Instead, Ms. Jarvis's tentative, sometimes opaque self-presentation registers the crucial fact about Mia, which is her confusion.
Antemasque, their third project together, backed by Flea on bass, is a more straightforward rock album – there are no bafflingly opaque, self-indulgent 32-minute jazz-metal-odyssey concept pieces here.
It's an election Reprints Related items Sumo wrestling: Heavy pettingOct 11th 2007The opaque self-governing institution oversees all aspects of sumo: organising matches, setting rules, promoting the sport and running its finances.
Yet by the time Amis came to publish his long, opaque, self-lacerating satire of literary envy and male mid-life crisis and perplexity, The Information (1995), it seemed as if his energy were diminishing, the satirical edge of his sword was blunted, his purpose distracted.
These materials will be transparent or opaque, structurally self-supporting and will be able to take any surface quality or color one can think of.
Its widely trumpeted "success" is built on turning a blind eye to quasi-criminality in investment banking and to systemic fleecing of ignorant customers in the asset management industry through an opaque and self-serving fee structure.
She becomes, on the page, a seemingly vacant woman cloaked in opaque remnants of self-importance.
In a nutshell, then, the problem is the lack of transparency from ad platforms; and that lack serving the self same opaque giants.
Kornél Mundruczó's work has in the past been self-conscious, opaque and implausible.
Their work can be startlingly, even embarrassingly candid, but is more often self-protectively opaque.
Yet whereas Mike Kenny's script for that project was a model of thematic development and clarity, the Arthurian references of James Phillips's drama become self-defeatingly opaque.
