Its rustic vibe and bulbous shape ground the bouquet and its opacity hides distracting stems.
First, there is movement towards increased opacity of industry trends and sources of performance.
The first was a measure of a place's opacity, or how secret it is.
They do, however, agree that Huawei's opacity is a microcosm of China's distorted economy.
The opacity of the language leaves the law open to manipulation on political grounds.
Its transparent grid defers to the pillar-and-architrave opacity of the ancient stone building without mimicking it.
As a result, climate modelers work open loop with an unprecedented degree of opacity.
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By applying more or less pressure, users can control line width and opacity of a drawn line.
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Lucidity and opacity, ordinary delights and exotic peculiarities blend breezily in an intimate jest of vast wonder.
Criticism about SharesPost and SecondMarket have focused on the lack of regulation and opacity behind these market-makers.
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The opacity of pricing makes it hard for insurers (and harder still for patients) to shop around.
The same power asymmetry between the abuser and the abused exists, and the same opacity of information exists.
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But, because of Suharto's opacity, some Indonesians see the speculation over who will succeed him as a distraction.
Unfortunately, because of the complexity and opacity of investment banking, that is not a question an outsider can answer.
This phenomenon is not unique to Japan, but the opacity does seem denser.
Part of her frustration with Facebook stems from its opacity on the issue.
The reflection of my white cotton underwear neared opacity, realness, and the gold chain with the gold feather glimmered.
But no other branch of government could get away with such operational opacity.
Many poor pensioners do not claim the tax credits to which they are entitled, partly because of the system's opacity.
According to a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers' Opacity Index, China was determined to be the world's most difficult place to do business.
Speaking to the BBC, Richard Lloyd of consumer group Which? criticised the opacity and lack of competition in the energy market.
It was just this kind of opacity that created the dislocations in market prices that made stock investing so lucrative for some.
This week's news brought more gripes about the opacity of the rescue.
This sense of opacity and impenetrability gives the authorities the upper hand.
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Hopkins plays the monster with a fine, cold relish: he gives the character a mesmeric animal stillness, the terrifying opacity of a cobra.
"Redaction of these individuals' names would merely add a layer of confusion and opacity to the documents without any additional privacy benefit, " they wrote.
However, the limitations of the bill and the opacity with which it was written mean that significant domestic political and IOC opposition remains.
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Their use to create opacity, to undermine the effectiveness of regulation and to ensure that owners are unaccountable corrodes all faith in the market itself.
Opacity was profitable, leading to returns of 14 to 18 percent.
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