Sentences with phrase «remained opaque»

While the fact that the original artifacts rested only a short walk away from the gallery (in Soane's eponymous London museum) somewhat mooted the air of mystery, the details of the chipped faces and carved owls in the film remained opaque, their precise origins left unexplained.

In a press conference at the semiannual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in May, researchers laid out different approaches to tracking and predicting the sun's activity, but the final explanation — or, more likely, explanations — for the sun's curious recent lull remained opaque.

While the government's policies have remained opaque, officials with the Russian Central Bank have talked about blocking the access of people inside the country to virtual currency websites, and Mr. Putin has pointed out the many potential illegal uses of the technology.

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

Securities - based loans (SBLs)-- or «shadow margin» — are often not disclosed by financial firms, meaning totals remain opaque.

But X remains opaque — to outsiders and insiders.

But it is possible to come away from this biography with another answer — that a large part of what made Packer the Christian he was remains opaque to many of those whom he influenced most.

Ivan remains opaque to this interstitial cosmos that calls for interstitial discernment.

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says oversight of the process remains opaque, and there's a need for more definitive cost - benefit analysis.

In my opinion, an opportunity for substantive policy reforms may have been lost - we refused to deregulate the downstream oil sector; we have not made new investments in our upstream more attractive to investors; we have not made any privatisations since 2015; NNPC remains opaque and indeed is now worse with evidently poor governance and low transparency!

Again we can infer that Osborne has used his opportunity to good effect, getting his side of the story across on a number of Tory controversies while remaining opaque on others.

Despite heroic efforts to clarify and justify the Harvard criteria, they remain opaque, confusing, and contradictory.

Solar physicists here at the semiannual meeting of the American Astronomical Society this week offered a number of mechanisms to shed light on what has been happening on the sun of late, but conceded that the final answer — or more likely answers — remains opaque.

In the absence of universal standardized medical record systems, the combined costs and health consequences of the Affordable Health Care Act will remain opaque,» he added.

Unfortunately, the innervation of the gluteus medius remains opaque at present, with limited and conflicting literature (see review by Flack et al. 2012).

Throughout it all, Chris remains an opaque presence; the movie circles him, peeks in from different angles, and leaves interpretation to us.

And while her motives remain opaque, they are never comfortably simple.

Director Tawfik Abu Wae captures the desolate beauty of his setting, and though it's not always clear what everything signifies, and the motivations remain opaque, the action is completely absorbing.

Richard's deeper motivations for vigilante justice remain opaque — even, somehow, to his wife Anne (Vinessa Shaw), an insipid rendering of a female character whose concerns are limited strictly to interior décor.

It's a shame that much of Vic Tokai's past remains opaque, because a look into their history brings up all manner of fascinating details.

These objects, isolated like specimens, relics, or evidence of a crime, tease the viewer with understanding, but their truth remains opaque.

Technological advances have put video cameras in millions of pockets, but the American justice system too often remains opaque to outside scrutiny.

To begin with, algorithms are written using programming languages that will largely remain opaque to the uninitiated even if they do happen to get a chance to evaluate them.

Furthermore, the factors that the Court will take into account in determining context, when it comes to assessing the reasonableness of a decision, remain opaque.

SEOUL — South Korea has yet to decide how to regulate crypotocurrency trading, a senior government official said, highlighting Seoul's struggles to supervise a market that critics say remains opaque and vulnerable to risks such as money laundering.

But most remain unregulated and, in many cases, the operations and ownership of these businesses remain opaque.

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

Despite rising criticism of social media companies and growing scrutiny by elected officials, the trade in fake followers has remained largely opaque.

But what it means and why it was allowed remain essentially opaque to us.

Repeat with remaining eggs, waiting until whites of eggs in water are opaque before adding the next egg (about 30 seconds apart).

Repeat with remaining eggs, waiting until whites are opaque before adding the next one (about 30 seconds apart).

Repeat with remaining eggs, waiting until whites are opaque before adding the next (about 30 seconds apart).

Nevertheless, the contributions of different authors to a given paper have remained relatively opaque.

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.

Add garlic and cook, tossing, until shrimp are opaque and light pink and no gray tone remains, 1 to 3 minutes.

o The oil should be stored in a black, opaque bottle in the refrigerator or freezer to protect it from light and heat (flax oil will remain liquid at freezing temperatures).

As a singer she remains as wayward as ever, her velvety voice, so urgent and melancholy in its expression, rendering even the most nakedly autobiographical lyrics here impenetrably opaque.

But Longo's character remains not just opaque, but uninteresting, while Finkel's gets endless, useless attention.

Everlasting's production process remains as frustratingly opaque as its contestants, and it isn't always enough that the vagueness gives Rachel and Quinn a wide - open playing field for their mind games.

Joan probably remains the most opaque character in the film — The Squid and the Whale is in part about the children's re-discovering of their mother after all — but Linney puts in a heartfelt performance every bit as good as the one we witnessed in You Can Count on Me.

With Christian as our guide, we are introduced to mounds of gravel framed as an important work (later hoovered up by cleaners) and to a public installation whose meaning remains bewilderingly opaque throughout (and from which the film takes its name).

But how PubTrack Digital works and how it gathers its data remained (and remains) opaque to me.

But investing advice remains confusing, costly and opaque — and that needs to change.

This trading pattern is probably explained by the rather misleading / opaque nature of the press release — hopefully not a sign of things to come... What was perhaps missed initially is that there's no KWG share issuance, KWG will remain listed, and Conwert is simply replacing Karl Ehlerding (and family, plus possibly another core shareholder, or two — it's not totally clear).

If you think this could be a problem for your cat then you might want to consider attaching sheets of decorative static film (no adhesive needed) to the lower portion of full - length glass that opaque the view but still enable the room to remain light.

Fortunately, the number of base points you earn with M life is not quite so opaque as Grazie, even if it remains complicated: Expect to earn 1 base point for every $ 3 gambled on slot machines or every $ 10 gambled on video poker.

Despite vigorous nods to newbies, Monster Hunter is a series that is happy to remain at least partly opaque to casual players.

While the specific iconography and the wealth of sentiments expressed in «A Village by the Sea» invites instant recognition this body of work remains decidedly opaque and resistant to placement.

If, then, in its broad definition, abstraction serves to reveal the unseen, for both DeFeo and Grotjahn, it perversely serves as a material diary of intense meditations whose specific revelations remain as impenetrable as their characteristically opaque surface marks.

A famously self - taught artist, Basquiat sampled from an extraordinary breadth of source material — from anatomical drawings to bebop jazz to silent film — but many of these reference points have remained relatively opaque until now.