opacity

"This precise behaviour is obviously subject to our parametrization of these clouds as a vertically uniform grey opacity source," the authors write.

In response to Kaczynski’s sleuthing, the Harris campaign offered this response, a masterwork of opacity: “The Vice President’s positions have been shaped by three years of effective governance as part of the Biden-Harris Administration.”

The voids in our knowledge owe both to the Saudi government’s opacity and denials, many of them debunked, as well as to our government’s lid on information gleaned through federal investigations, a congressional inquiry and blue-ribbon commission.

Born into an elite family with a history of financial opacity, Sheinbaum falsely denied their involvement in the Panama Papers scandal, betraying her inclination for posverdad, or post-truth.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is doing his part to maintain the court’s opacity.