Sentences with phrase «in opaque ways»

Ideal liberal models and best practices are being promoted and aspired to, but these models and practices are being adopted in opaque ways.

Josh Hutcherson presents Nick in an opaque way, which may be a directorial misjudgment.

Having thus bailed out Goldman, and other US and foreign investment banks that were due payments from AIG, the malodor of aiding investment banks in an opaque way is something the Treasury wants to lose.

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But her underlying point isn't totally invalid — the furor over drug price hikes like Mylan's is forcing legislators and private companies alike to finally confront the issue head - on, and highlighting just how difficult the disparate and largely opaque American medical financing system makes it to address these problems in a serious way.

Lilly, Sanofi and Novo Nordisk have been accused in a lawsuit of exploiting the country's opaque drug - pricing system in a way that benefits themselves and the intermediaries known as pharmacy benefit managers.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Massachusetts, accuses the companies of exploiting the country's opaque drug - pricing system in a way that benefits themselves and the intermediaries known as pharmacy benefit managers.

Since the major financial institutions which comprise the financial system are still way overleveraged and opaque (in fact with record amounts of debt and derivatives at present), such a break in confidence could happen abruptly and without warning.»

The more regulatory constraints are put in place on banks, the more innovative ways around them will spontaneously emerge and the more complex and opaque («Frankenstein - like») the financial system will become.

Whitehead is indeed convinced that he is able to formulate and interpret, both cosmologically and in a way appropriate to the theory of religion, that which early wisdom has already expressed in paradoxes or in a way which is still intellectually opaque: The enhancement of self - experience and world - experience happens, in a strict sense, at the same time; the path to the self leads to the disclosure of the world; those who really comprehend the world find themselves...

it's no good saying he moves in mysterious ways or that he has purposes that are opaque to us because that kind of evasion is predicate on the assumption that the person espousing this knows more than I do about the supernatural but I haven't yet met anyone that does have a private line to the creator and neither have you.

When done, it should be opaque, but moist all the way through and darker red in the very center.

(A mindset, by the way, that was completely opaque since he was in China on a sneaker company tour and had yet to weigh in publicly.)

Obviously we have no way of judging the validity of an internal poll whose methodology is opaque, and the Clintonistas have every incentive to get out a positive message at this critical point in their candidate's political life (Update: they're denying it).

Lawmakers met Monday afternoon for the start of the joint budget committee process — a meeting known in Albany as the «mothership» and initially held as a way of enhancing transparency in the opaque state budget process, but also a chance for lawmakers to lay out their public priorities in the talks.

Which is pretty much the ad hoc, opaque way in which the governor is approaching the serious business of investigating possible wrongdoing in his own administration.

«Unlike maintained schools, academies have substantial discretion over the ways in which governance is undertaken and some schools and multi-academy trusts have used this freedom to establish opaque and ambiguous governance structures that undermine effective internal school accountability.

The meeting — hosted by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) here, and sponsored by HHMI; ASAPbio, a group that promotes the use of life sciences preprints; and the London - based Wellcome Trust — drew more than 100 participants interested in catalyzing efforts to improve the vetting of manuscripts and exploring ways to open up what many called an excessively opaque and slow system of peer review.

Nutrition aside, raw honey differs from processed honey in a few significant ways: it is typically opaque, it is typically thicker than processed honey, and it crystalizes more readily as it has not been heated (producers heat honey to prevent crystallization).

I really LOVE the wrap dress in the last one, the color is so pretty on you and I love the way it looks with the opaque tights and boots.

They conceptualized a scene rich with gold, jewel tones, and complimentary natural elements like greenery, fruit, and warm hued wood to show couples that they can, in fact, use elegant touches, an opaque palette + imaginative details in a fresh, new way.

Gigi continues to demonstrate acceptable ways to wear leggings in the outside world by choosing opaque styles (like this Alo Yoga pair) to wear under long sweaters (including her chunky - knit Faithfull the Brand turtleneck) and then choosing such kickass accessories you hardly notice her pants are spandex.

What I'm looking for: - Opaque black - Long or 3/4 sleeve - Light material, not too structured (for example, ponte doesn't fall the way I want)- No colored cuffs or collars or anything, just plain - Either small in the waist compared to bust or stretchy enough to accommodate a difference - Ideally under $ 100, but that's flexible for the right dress.

As shown in the video, you can either wear them pretty opaque, sheer them out or, my preferred way, quickly take the office friendly eye you wear to a glam look by applying those on top.

Pleats that mixed sheer and opaque fabrics made their way back to the runway at Giambattista Valli after popping up at BCBG back in February.

Dark, DARK plum, this is a matte lipstick that glides on in a way that is super opaque in coverage.

It's esoteric and opaque in ways that blockbusters aren't allowed to be anymore, and Matthew McConaughey is as good as ever in it.

Monster Hunter has always been opaque, its menus pebble - dashed with byzantine statistics, and its combat purposefully designed to be methodical and challenging in a way that feels strange next to modern action games» fluidity.

In response to a growing perception that school reports had become opaque, and teacher comments effectively meaningless, in 2006 the Federal Government instituted a shake - up to the way schools reported to parents on their children's learninIn response to a growing perception that school reports had become opaque, and teacher comments effectively meaningless, in 2006 the Federal Government instituted a shake - up to the way schools reported to parents on their children's learninin 2006 the Federal Government instituted a shake - up to the way schools reported to parents on their children's learning.

The cuts proposed by the administration and the congressional appropriations committees affect K - 12 and higher education differently — the latter in a more opaque way.

«A new tolerance for the Muslim headscarf and an intolerance of alcohol point the way towards a more fiercely Islamist future, partly inspired by the opaque Fethullah Gulen movement, which seems strongly represented in the police.»

The concept, shown in «rhapsody blue,» features a glass roof that can electronically switch from clear to opaque, seats that adjust 30 ways — including separate thigh supports for each leg — and subtle door handles concealed in chrome beneath the windows.

I have common interests, as a Macmillan author, and a view of the industry from that side, which is frankly pretty opaque even from within the sausage factory, and in many ways deeply counterintuitive to outside observers.

Though there are some ways that IFRS are better than GAAP, (more consistent in the way they treat financial assets and liabilities), I think that the change will make accounting slightly more opaque, and lower comparability, until all US firms are forced to use one standard or the other.

Unlike with the stock market's «flash crash,» few old - school traders blamed the algos for the fall, although some did blame them for the end of a way of life that aided both transparency and liquidity in an often opaque market.

Larry Swedroe at CBS Moneywatch recently highlighted a paper by Robert Maynard that makes this point in great detail and provides investors with the framework to rebut those who feel that a endowment - style portfolio management approach that emphasizes illiquid, opaque alternative investments is the way to go.

I sometimes think TLI's damned either way... In a bullish market, investors get bored with it — while in a bearish market, it becomes too exotic & opaquIn a bullish market, investors get bored with it — while in a bearish market, it becomes too exotic & opaquin a bearish market, it becomes too exotic & opaque!

«Peggy made an art world that was quite opaque, understandable in a way that has been invaluable to me.

These interjections within the gallery's white cube serve as a way in which the artist rebuilds and elevates these fractured stories, now sturdily supported with weighted columns of opaque color.

The color blue, for example, whether cobalt, cerulean, or ultramarine, takes on individual characteristics in Schuchard's expression on each canvas and becomes watery, dense, fragmented, opaque or translucent, depending on the artist's filter, or way of seeing.

Later works are enriched by imagery drawn from indigenous American culture, and in the 1950s, Tobey put himself through intensive training in Japanese Sumi techniques, using opaque black ink thrown and splashed in a controlled way onto paper: these are among the most striking pictures in the exhibition.

«It does not describe a practice but a general being in the context,» which is an opaque way of saying that the only perspectives contemporary art allows for are those created by history and current events — artists who want to be considered relevant aren't allowed to be introspective.

Artist Statement I use paint in a variety of ways: semitransparent, opaque, gestural and flat.

JS: One of the things that struck me the most in your exhibition at Hollis Taggart is the variation across each painting, the way forms are approached with different kinds of marks — thinner and thicker areas, translucent and opaque.

A group exhibition exploring the unacknowledged currency of data accrued through analysis of the quantified self, that buys participation through the protocols of platform capitalism, the repurposing of which derives value in a myriad opaque ways.

Yet, like so much else in Warhol's life and work, the apparent invariably gives way to something deeper and darker — a sense of meaning and intent that is disconcertingly opaque.

The eyes of the figures, peeking out of their various masks (or anti-peeking, in the case of Papi Shampoo, who has mirrors in his sockets) are opaque in a way that feels like refusal, maybe a refusal to acknowledge to the amorphous «Landlord» but more likely a refusal to acknowledge vulnerability of any sort.

In this transformation of the «intimate proportions» of the woman's body into landscape - like abstract composition, de Kooning pursued a strategy similar to that of his friend Franz Kline, who used an opaque projector to enlarge details of his own urban genre paintings into the mural - scale, black - and - white abstractions that became his signature achievement» (J. Zilczer, A Way of Living: The Art of Willem de Kooning, New York, 2014, p. 132).

Momin adds, «By physically moving through and mapping the very landscape that has been so fantasized, dreamed about, and capitalized upon in a breadth of positive and negative ways, the artists had the opportunity to address their work to the idea in a variety of ways — opaque or direct, tangential or political, macro and micro.»

Fields of opaque color and transparent layers draw attention to their own differences in the same way tiny momen...

The range of surfaces she employs encourage new ways of looking at the spaces they are in, with transparent polythene forming thin veils to look through, suspended opaque paper forms creating holes or windows and shiny cellophane refracting the light.