He referred opaquely to her recent past. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Trick Three: The Fake Forests - or what the process opaquely dubs 'LULUCF'. From Wordnik.com. [Johann Hari: Our Leaders Are Staging a Scam in Copenhagen] Reference
It's when efficiencies are reduced inequitably and opaquely that we have... trouble. From Wordnik.com. [No Surrender] Reference
Orphic memories gleamed and sparkled opaquely like the moving shadows of leaves on the pavement. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
It is densely, sometimes opaquely written and has been obsessively researched for more than a decade. From Wordnik.com. [Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers] Reference
They conducted business opaquely, and with patterns of patronage and nepotism not far beneath the varnish. From Wordnik.com. [The Gun] Reference
Veiled in powdered sugar, its square shape is softened by a tender blush that opaquely radiates from its center. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
Although the water was opaquely black, Arkady could see his mother clearly because she was in her best white dress. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
Following strategy #3 leaves you the option to achieve your final color rendering either transparently or opaquely. From Wordnik.com. [Utopiales Poster, Part 6: Washin] Reference
Used to be a translucent, amorphous mesh of blobs—now, we've got gray, opaquely Tronnish panels with white outlines. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
Did I choose to write opaquely about intent, leaving the reader to imagine what was going on in the minds of all involved?. From Wordnik.com. [Melanie Benjamin: We Need to Talk About Your Book] Reference
He makes a trio of apparently inconsistent distinctions concerning ideas, invoking other opaquely employed scholastic concepts. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Theory of Ideas] Reference
For at this moment he was remembering, all so dimly, a time of awful sweetness in the bitter, a darkness tinged opaquely in light. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
Strange that I overlooked it in the first place, "her eyes were opaquely thoughtful," but perhaps it reflects a shortcoming in myself. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories Vol 1]
Sargent like to do it opaquely, Schmid would do it more with transparency, and Sorolla would use a combination of anything that worked. From Wordnik.com. [Subsurface Scattering II] Reference
Or, as Kant put it more opaquely in the Critique of Judgment, a joke arises "from the sudden transformation of a strained expectation into nothing.". From Wordnik.com. [Isn't It Funny?] Reference
In the end, Enron's creditors decided all at once that its opaquely structured assets weren't worth what it had said they were worth — a portent of today. From Wordnik.com. [Storm-Proofing the Economy] Reference
Turkey may indeed seem mysteriously opaque to outsiders -- even to many of its inhabitants -- but in telling her story so opaquely, Ms. Freely leaves the reader unenlightened. From Wordnik.com. [Radical Idealists in a Hard World] Reference
And since subprime securities were so opaquely designed and. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
She is wearing her thick glasses, which sparkle opaquely over her smile. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
As usual with most American pundits, they see the situation in Asia opaquely. From Wordnik.com. [All articles at Blogcritics] Reference
China made this clear in June, when its vice premier said, opaquely, that China will. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
The 13-point list of opaquely - worded campaign regulations decreed by the state Election. From Wordnik.com. [AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)] Reference
A dusty mist quivered in the air; the street-lamp shone opaquely in the turbid atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [The Quest] Reference
This was written, I think, in a less disagreeable style, and certainly it was less opaquely obscure to me. From Wordnik.com. [Father and Son: a study of two temperaments] Reference
Cautiously he descended to lower levels but the landscape thus opaquely revealed showed but little that was definite. From Wordnik.com. [Our Pilots in the Air] Reference
Without doing much of anything, she makes us see how this glamorous, opaquely sad fox might be charmed by John's oafish candor. From Wordnik.com. [Dallas Observer | Complete Issue] Reference
In pushing through the NBN so quickly and opaquely, Conroy has repeatedly evaded attempts to hold him accountable for his plans. From Wordnik.com. [ZDNet Australia] Reference
Like the cap-and-trade carbon regime now being constructed, a VAT is a liberal politician's delight: It taxes everything, but opaquely. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
She was baffled, from not knowing "the heat of the centre in him", as Vernon opaquely phrased it in charity to the object of her worship. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
Here and there, when the tortuous way approached half-clearings, we caught glimpses of the round sun, opaquely red through the smoky haze. From Wordnik.com. [In the Valley] Reference
Among McCain's many problems are: 1) He himself looks near dead and too opaquely serious. From Wordnik.com. [Beth Arnold: Woe Is Me Signals McCain] Reference
A drone like me can write as opaquely and tediously as that, and I’m just a technoprole. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Surge!] Reference
It’s a rhetorical bait and switch, which is the point Matt is (albeit somewhat opaquely) making. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Michael Steele’s Bad Math] Reference
“It’s a rhetorical bait and switch, which is the point Matt is (albeit somewhat opaquely) making.”. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Michael Steele’s Bad Math] Reference
“By saying ‘eat more seafood,’ we’re basically saying what you’re saying,” he said, somewhat opaquely. From Wordnik.com. [Enjoy your food, but eat less] Reference
They are resistant to change and opaquely run. From Wordnik.com. [A Chaebol Banking Redux for Korea?] Reference
Today's Washington Post has an article opaquely titled "Federal Agency Aided Md. From Wordnik.com. [DHS Spies on Maryland Peace Activists: It's Worse Than We Thought] Reference
He said, rather opaquely, "One could say that 'the empire' has been doing that since the. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus Christi Caller Times, Caller.com Stories] Reference
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