Our President believes in opacity, works in secret, tells us nothing, and when we see the photo ops, its only corporate and banking power sitting with him at the table. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Transparent Negotiations] Reference
This includes two applications of white in order to achieve complete opacity, which is critical as the bottle is blue. From Wordnik.com. [Packaging & Converting ESSENTIALS] Reference
Their opacity was a contributor to the financial crisis because it was very hard to figure out the counterparty risks in the system. From Wordnik.com. [The Race To Finish Financial Reform] Reference
It has a bunch of awesome layouts, changed by pressing win-space, and windows that don't have focus automatically have 90% opacity, which is beautiful, if you ask me. From Wordnik.com. [Everything2 New Writeups] Reference
Human systems can achieve this kind of opacity by accident and by intent. From Wordnik.com. [November 2008] Reference
The company defines "opacity" as "the lack of clear, accurate, formal, easily discernible and widely accepted practices". From Wordnik.com. [Lloyd Mexico Economic Report - May 2001] Reference
Define the "opacity" of each animation layer to control its influence over the final movement. From Wordnik.com. [2BakSa.Net] Reference
But, if you click while it hides, (makes the effect of 'opacity'), if you keep clicking on the mid icon, it stills showing up. From Wordnik.com. [DonationCoder.com Forum] Reference
The interface consists of dragable toolbars with a surprising amount of design options such as opacity, bevel, emboss, drop shadow, etc. From Wordnik.com. [doggdot.us] Reference
The new version of Qt also makes it possible to create animated widgets and apply graphical effects such as opacity, blur and colourisation. From Wordnik.com. [ZDNet UK Highlights] Reference
Right-click a gadget, and you can even set its opacity, meaning you can make it semi-transparent, becoming fully visible only when you allow your mouse cursor to hover over it. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
The opacity is a necessary evil. From Wordnik.com. [What I’ve Learned About SEO - Publishing 2.0] Reference
It possesses also, less opacity, and is not a compound. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
He's all for opacity, mystique, mystery and self-mythologizing. From Wordnik.com. [For Kevin Kline, The Beard's (Sometimes) The Thing] Reference
They worry, with reason, about the complexity and opacity of the bill. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Philip Neches: Financial Reform: Nobody Is Happy] Reference
Given the opacity of North Korean politics, nothing is known for sure. From Wordnik.com. [The No-Show North Koreans] Reference
That's the sound policy under conditions of ignorance and epistemic opacity. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Winston: The Competing Black Swans of Climate Change] Reference
The first possesses the greatest opacity, while the second and third are most durable. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
The sequence's opacity, speed and scale can all be manipulated through custom software. From Wordnik.com. [Leo Villareal: The Essence Of Light: Thirteen Years Of Exploration (PHOTOS)] Reference
It's an original work of fiction, but never veers into opacity or disdain for the reader. From Wordnik.com. [Fiction, Long And Short, For Summertime Escapes] Reference
Adding to the opacity, RBS reported its March 31 stress-test data on "an immediate borrower basis.". From Wordnik.com. [Bank Sovereign-Debt Disclosures Get Muddied] Reference
Its almost equal opacity, too, and habit of washing up, militate against its use by young painters. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Hence this red is preferably employed where opacity is to be avoided -- in sunset clouds for instance. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
But the disparities are also a measure of the opacity of Europe's bond markets, even now. [email protected]. From Wordnik.com. [Overheard: Measure by Measure] Reference
The opacity of the film varies with the quantity of benzine added; by excess the varnish dries transparent. From Wordnik.com. [Photographic Reproduction Processes] Reference
Mr. Herbert Giles accounts for this Chinese obtuseness, or, as some would have it, opacity, in much the same way. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
I love his adhering to the idea of mystique and opacity as opposed to transparency: 'You'll get nothing out of me.'. From Wordnik.com. [Kline Goes Extra Mile] Reference
Readers of this blog may recall my pet theory as to why this is so, based on the confluence of opacity, arbitrage, and leverage. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Philip Neches: Financial Reform: Nobody Is Happy] Reference
Shrouded in enigmatic indie opacity, the unit has issued one eponymous release to date for the outré Skin & Barrel Music label. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 134] Reference
And the official statement from Sony is a model of opacity: "We join music lovers everywhere in eagerly anticipating her next release.". From Wordnik.com. [CHASING FIONA'S TRACKS ALL OVER THE INTERNET] Reference
With us, at least, tungstate of baryta is far from having the body of white lead, and indeed is inferior in opacity to good zinc white. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Avoiding this means cultivating opacity -- acting in public as if one moment of petty crime or candor might lead to a global undressing. From Wordnik.com. [Everyone's a Star!] Reference
And complexity breeds opacity, making it harder for the people managing the banks or the regulators to understand what is really going on. From Wordnik.com. [Gauging the New Normal] Reference
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