'transparent self' is an acceptable and usable phrase in written English.
It generally refers to an individual's willingness to reveal or make public personal information or feelings in order to be more open and honest. For example, "She had a transparent self, always willing to share her thoughts and feelings with the people around her."
By Andrea K. Scott "Transparent Self-Portrait" (1987), by Maria Lassnig.
Like most other people I find his argument on this point to be tortured, transparent, self-serving, devious and irritating.
His sociopathic lack of principle and transparent self-interest seems not to damage him in their eyes.
(He also amusingly confesses that a glance at his previous oeuvre would have made clear the transparent self-delusion of his purported belief in human goodness).
Others, meanwhile, think that this distinction is a transparent, self-serving ruse that allows people motivated by deep-seated racial bias and resentment to excuse their beliefs.
The tale of Falstaff is the actor's tragedy — the story of a great man who is great only for his power of pretense, for his transparent self-aggrandizement, a mask which is modelled closely on an actual grandeur.
He betrays no acknowledgment of the corruption of his existence by his urge to dominate everyone he meets, and it is impossible to lament the loss of a man who defends his transparent self-deception to the end.
Compared with Charlie Chaplin's "Great Dictator" or Jack Benny's "To Be or Not to Be," both from 1939 -- contemporaneous films that took courage, entailed risk and might have conceivably had some effect -- Mr. Brooks's efforts are transparent, self-serving, risk-free excuses for acting out his bizarre obsession with the Führer.
In a stage performance at the Babylon club in Istanbul in November 2000, she joined a percussion group and performed in a wide spectrum of the arts -- from poetry to singing to drawing to drama -- in a transparent self-painted costume.
Then it slowly occurs to you how frequently these strange texts -- in their sentimental pretensions and transparent self-deceptions, their careering emotional shifts and their impetuous paranoia; and, most profoundly, in their projection of these inner turmoils into external policy imperatives -- mirror the official course of governance in Richard Nixon's two administrations.
For practical optically transparent self-cleaning thin film applications, it is highly desirable to have greater than 80% optical transparency.
