The technical term for this type of experiment is "nuclear transfer," but West prefers a more transparent phrase -- human therapeutic cloning".
She even agrees to "going transparent" — a phrase that appears to play upon the Scientology term "going clear" — and starts wearing a camera lens that will give "her watchers" virtually 24/7 access to her life (with occasional three-minute bathroom breaks).
An Allstate/National Journal poll in 2012 found that only 30% thought the government was described somewhat or very well by the phrase "transparent and open about their business practices".
A sentence, or more accurately a position in a sentence, is held to be referentially transparent if terms or phrases in that position that refer to the same object can be freely substituted without altering the truth of the sentence.
But more striking was a sparing use of the sustain pedal that yielded clean, transparent textures as well as phrasing that alternated between vivid and slightly brittle.
How much information a bank is required to disclose to its regulator is not always clear, so a phrase like "fully transparent" is subject to differing interpretations.
The film industry regularly "translates" English film titles using another English phrase, usually more transparent, to look "cool" (for instance, Silver Linings Playbook became Happiness Therapy).
I am not totally clear on who said what to whom, only that on the show Transparent, Rabbi Raquel used the phrase and told it to my favourite Fefferman sister.
The orchestra performed beautifully throughout the evening, with transparent textures, a buoyant pulse and expressive phrasing.
Conscious perceptual experience is often said to be transparent, or in G.E. Moore's (1922) phrase "diaphanous".
The postmodern poet (using here the shorthand described above) wants to keep the reader "on the page" by denying the semantic (that is to say transparent and transcendent) qualities of individual words, phrases, and sentences.
