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The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
Sigmund Freud
Doctor
Mirror
Nothing
Opaque
Like
Him
His
Patients
Them
Should
Show
Shown
Artists have different responsibilities in different eras. But at this point, I really feel like it's all hands on deck. An artist that's fiddle-faddling in opaque, gossamer gestures - I mean it's fine to do that, totally fine, but there's no time left. We don't have the luxury of time anymore.
Anohni
Time
Luxury
Responsibilities
Fine
Totally
Point
No Time
Opaque
Feel
Like
Eras
Left
Gestures
Hands
Hands-On
Artist
Artists
Different
Anymore
Deck
Mean
Really
In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.
Breyten Breytenbach
Reality
Though
System
Hiding
Objective
Chattering
Opaque
Clear
Spotlight
Governing
Ultimate
Covert
While
Your
Transparency
Workings
Even
Shrouded by the 'dodgy dossier,' which warped opaque intelligence, none of the stated war aims in Iraq spoke to the British national interest. Illusory dreams of bringing Western-style democracy to the Middle East were punctured by failures of planning and strategy, as catalogued before the Chilcot Inquiry.
Dominic Raab
War
Dreams
Democracy
Intelligence
National
Before
Strategy
Aims
Stated
Inquiry
East
Opaque
Spoke
Failures
None
Were
Iraq
National Interest
Middle
Middle East
Which
Interest
Warped
Planning
Illusory
Bringing
British
Behind the ambitious, creative talent that is Hollywood lies a darker side of the entertainment industry little appreciated by the ordinary moviegoer. It's an opaque world of film financing, revenue accretion, and minimal profit share.
Harry Shearer
Entertainment
Creative
World
Profit
Side
Minimal
Financing
Lies
Darker
Entertainment Industry
Opaque
Share
Talent
Industry
Revenue
Ambitious
Accretion
Behind
Ordinary
Little
Hollywood
Film
Appreciated
The individual dynamics going on within a venture fund are critically important to you. Unfortunately, they're also very opaque.
Heidi Roizen
You
Important
Critically
Individual
Opaque
Also
Venture
Within
Very
Going
Unfortunately
Dynamics
Fund
Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.
Jason Calacanis
Real Estate
Black
Super
Opaque
Box
Real
Commercial
Get
Estate
Information
Really
Hard
Corporate tax reform should include not just large C-corps but also smaller business S-corps and LLC pass-throughs. And nearly as important as cutting business tax rates is the need to simplify the inexplicably opaque and complex system.
Lawrence Kudlow
Business
Important
Corporate
Complex
Complex System
System
Rates
Opaque
Simplify
Smaller
Also
Reform
Just
Tax
Tax Rates
Tax Reform
Cutting
Should
Large
Include
Nearly
Need
We now eat at the end of a very long and opaque food chain. Food comes to us ready-made in packages that obscure as much information as they reveal.
Michael Pollan
Food
Long
Eat
Food Chain
Obscure
Opaque
Reveal
Ready-Made
End
Very
Information
Packages
Us
Much
Chain
Now
In the litany of issues that separate the two Americas - one more conservative and one more liberal, increasingly as opposed and intractable and opaque to each other as the Palestinians and Israelis - none is so fierce, precise, inviolable and confounding to the other side as guns.
Michael Wolff
Conservative
Other
Increasingly
Liberal
Side
Intractable
Guns
More
Opaque
None
Israelis
Opposed
Issues
Precise
Fierce
Separate
Americas
Each
Palestinians
Two
The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.
Roberta Smith
Jazz
Others
At Least One
Easy
Poetry
Opaque
Thus
Obsessions
Least
NASCAR
Fishing
Mock
Roses
Lucky
Baseball
I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
Sally Phillips
Winter
Spider
Wear
Opaque
Colours
Veins
Over
Sort
Got
Tights
Legs
Creative processes are always very opaque. Afterwards, you tend to pretend that everything was planned and it was a strategy, but it was not like that at all.
Sebastian Lelio
You
Creative
Strategy
Everything
Pretend
Tend
Opaque
Like
Always
Very
Afterwards
Processes
Planned
There are so many instances in banking where 'free' simply doesn't mean free, whether it's opaque overdraft charges or credit card providers that are quietly raising interest rates without customers noticing.
Taavet Hinrikus
Free
Charges
Rates
Opaque
Simply
Without
Providers
Quietly
Banking
Where
Whether
Interest
Interest Rates
Mean
Customers
Noticing
Many
Credit
Card
Credit Card
Raising
I have a few rules on lipstick... I don't wear gloss because I can't talk properly. I like matte lipsticks; I like an opaque shade that you can't see my lip color through at all.
Tracee Ellis Ross
You
Few
Rules
Wear
See
Shade
Properly
Color
Through
Opaque
Like
Talk
Because
Gloss
Lip
Lipstick
I am no Rushdie. The only people who think of silencing me are my students, on days when my lectures are more opaque than usual.
Abhijit Banerjee
Me
People
I Am
Think
Silencing
More
Only
Opaque
Students
Days
Am
Lectures
Than
Who
Usual
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