Perhaps social convention needs to change to budget for the opaqueness of our new behaviors while recognizing their connection to behaviors of old.
The CEFR, as a general reference document, has been criticized for the opaqueness of some descriptors, inconsistencies in its terminology use (Alderson et al. 2006), and insufficiency in describing vocabulary constructs (Huhta and Figueras 2004).
Reta's work is praised by those who deplore "the opaqueness of the contemporary novel" and commended for avoiding "convolution and pretension".
Fluently translated by Shirley Lee, this is a major contribution to understanding what appears to be a nation impossible to understand but which may, in fact, be all too easy to fathom if one steps back from the idea of the impossible opaqueness of the "hermit kingdom" to see North Korea for what it really is, as shown by Jang.
Such reduction in the grain size towards more amorphous state could be responsible for increased opaqueness, and consequently decreased transmittance for the ITO films prepared at the lower substrate temperature.
And the opaqueness of derivatives meant that it was very hard for anyone -- including the very smart people who run the Federal Reserve -- to know how Citigroup's losses could spread throughout the system.
His instinct for opaqueness, his mistrust of candour and his apparent inability to think imaginatively or laterally is a source of increasing irritation.
Even in New York, a state famous for the incomprehensibility of its fiscal planning, this budget would have to win a special award for opaqueness.
The opaqueness of the junta's reasoning made popular the phrase "por algo será", or "it must have been for something", among Argentines trying to justify their own inaction.Videla never admitted to sponsoring assassinations, referring only to "disappearances".
Still, she said, the opaqueness of these kinds of contributions can be vexing, because it makes it more difficult for people like her to research philanthropic needs — which in turn can influence policy.
