Sentences with phrase «like opaque»

If you hear a loud cascading sound at the south end of the fair, it is someone flipping over her «Red Bean Turner,» which is like an opaque hourglass filled with dried beans.

The way light rakes across the monochrome folds of their shallow relief implies an illusory space, but also reads like an opaque plaster cast of a window.

Gain unique insights into the history of color and the factors that differentiate characteristics like opaque, translucent, transitional and so on.

Then again, words like opaque and elusive sell Godard short, because they imply that he's interested in things like plot and character.

Also, don't forget essentials like opaque tights that I love from here!

I'm still breaking out the bold colors, though, with winterized modifications like opaque tights (or my over-worn Hunter boots... you'll really want to strangle me Friday).

I like the opaque look best, because it doesn't look wonky in the knees of back of the calves when it stretches over that area.

The best way to wear something you're unfamiliar with is to pair it with non-trendy, classic pieces like opaque tights, denim, and basic cotton shirts.

At this point, it just looked like an opaque ball of goo to me.

I like the opaque look best, because it doesn't look wonky in the knees of back of the calves when it stretches over that area.

Not exact matches

It's not clear whether McHenry would like the U.S. to suspend all such «opaque» and «secretive» cooperation indefinitely in principle.

All in all, the creation of the foundation seems like a well - timed arrangement for the Zuckerbergs, even as its exact contours remain opaque.

Whether it's the frustratingly unfulfilled promise of social media, or financially opaque ad placements, or agencies that substitute head count for experience, or awareness - building platforms that are disappearing like polar icecaps, or brands that are encrusted to the point of immobility with the bad decisions of a dozen previous custodians, a CMO's day often isn't nearly as much fun as it ought to be.

Industries like health care, however, remain stubbornly opaque and resistant to dedicated consumer feedback.

If you're a mechanic, avoid reeling off opaque terms like torque, manifold and catalytic converter.

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.

Backed with more than $ 45M from investors like Goldman Sachs, Pine Brook and Kleiner Perkins, the company is on a mission is to eliminate the inefficiencies of the mortgage industry and bring transparency to a traditionally opaque and confusing process.

«Friend suggestions, profiling for advertising, use of data gathered from like buttons and web pixels (also completely missing from «all your Facebook data»), and the newsfeed algorithm itself are completely opaque.»

The company's first - of - its - kind Netflix - like monthly subscription fee and use of the simple image of a flower to explain financial success are new and refreshing in an industry known for complicated charts and graphs, financial jargon, and opaque fees.

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.

I also really liked the two layer thing, it was really cool since we used big molds: the base was the agar agar layer and the top, which was a flower, was the opaque coconut layer.

The right consistency should be thick, light in color and opaque like butter.

It came out like taffy, never turned opaque and while I did taste some of it and the flavor wagood, there's no way you could call it fudge.

According to Julia Child «Fish is done when the flesh has turned from translucent to opaque and, rather than feeling squashy to the touch like raw fish, it feels lightly springy.

Mine didn't turn out pretty and translucent like your picture; they are definitely opaque.

My gummies turned out opaque (they looked like honey soap) and had a harder chewiness than regular gummies.

Some colors are not as opaque as you'd like.

Mild etching looks like a rainbow film, while severe etching turns the glass opaque.

And though you're weeks away from D - day, your baby's looking more and more like a newborn: As fat accumulates under her skin, it's no longer transparent and is now opaque.

And in response to criticism from the likes of Oxfam, Global Witness, and the Open Society Foundations, they instituted some limited governance reforms that increased, albeit marginally, the transparency around opaque oil dealings.

* We will let Eisenger off the hook for conflating deliberately opaque disclosures — like credit card and product disclosure statements — with real transparency.

In a nutshell, it looks like a disappointment: the ethics package approval process was another instance of Albany's opaque, backroom dealing, and the governor's «dramatic» five - point plan will do far too little to raise the veil of secrecy that contributes to Albany's pervasive culture of corruption.

While there are always district - specific issues, some are prominent in most races, including education, affordable housing, public safety, employment, transit, and the somewhat opaque «quality of life,» which typically includes things like traffic, trash, parks, homelessness, and more.

Innovative prospecting techniques like three - dimensional sonar, which emits sound waves from multiple angles, help discovery crews see through opaque and shifting layers of geological salt to pinpoint oil hidden four miles or more beneath the Gulf of Mexico and off the Atlantic coasts of South America and Africa.

Airbus, the European aircraft manufacturer, suggests that by midcentury aircraft skin could alternate between transparent and opaque, somewhat like today's light - sensitive eyeglasses, giving passengers a wide - angle view of the clouds.

Nitrogen is the primary component of Titan's opaque atmosphere, which may be like that of the infant Earth but with a pressure 50 percent greater than Earth's today.

Entering a complex and opaque environment like a human or animal body, light trajectory is deviated by all the components it finds on its way.

Like gods, these mathematical models were opaque, their workings invisible to all but the highest priests in their domain: mathematicians and computer scientists.

Feathers, like most opaque objects, typically get their color from pigments in surface coatings (much as melanin colors skin) or from tiny surface structures that reflect light, such as those found on iridescent butterflies and beetles.

Glaze ice is smooth and is clear like glass, while rime ice is bumpy and opaque.

Heat is one of the major threats to proteins, as can be demonstrated when frying an egg — the clear white albumen turns opaque as the proteins unfold and then tangle like spaghetti.

Many biological specimens, like the fruit fly embryo, are so opaque that they scatter large numbers of photons, filling pictures with static.

If they were nearly the same, this would suggest that the cause was something opaque, like an orbiting disk, planet, or star, or even large structures in space» said Wright, who is a co-author of the paper, titled «The First Post-Kepler Brightness Dips of KIC 8462852.»

Visual signs, I have argued, have culturally evolved to look like natural objects, and have the kinds of contour combinations found in a three - dimensional world of opaque objects.

Band pairs, counted like tree rings, are alternating opaque and translucent deposits laid in sequence in shark vertebrae as the animal grows.

Aside from its opaque eyes and the polka dot - like chromatophores (pigmented cells that aid in camouflage) that cover its body, the glass squid is completely transparent.

This had been impossible in the past because, unlike mammalian egg cells which are tiny and transclucent, a bird's egg cell is filled with opaque yolk and it is huge — this means that finding the nucleus is like looking for a white marble in a pool of milk.

That bone, like the brain tissue, is opaque.

Mix all oils together in an opaque bottle to get a scent you like.

It does create a subtle white sheen on the skin like almost any zinc - based, water - resistant sunblock and remains slightly opaque, even when rubbed into the skin.