To be sure, even open democracies have their share of opaque jockeying and deal making in what used to be called smoke filled rooms.

Here's the eye with the opaque lens, the opaque lens extracted and an acrylic lens inserted.

There are variety of industrial and scientific applications where noncontact flow measurement through opaque walls or in opaque liquids is desirable.

Public sector employment in Kenya is notoriously opaque.

Exposure to personal smoke and secondhand smoke increases the risk.

Resolutions, smoke.

Salvation, smoke.

Redemption, smoke.

Holy Smoke!

The unorthodox techniques, however, are less nimble and more opaque.

Harvest palms, smoke.

Harvest witness, smoke.

He doesn't smoke.

Do you smoke?

what is this smoke?

May I smoke here?

He does not smoke.

He does not smoke.

It's why barware is glamorous. Glamour is translucent not transparent, not opaque.

Cigarette smoking and second hand smoke (passive smoke) may reduce the effectiveness of medications such as corticosteroids.

He was opaque and playfully cryptic, already a little paranoid perhaps justifiably so.

You don't smoke, do you?

Smoke coming from Villaggio Mall.

And shadow of black smoke ,

And shadow of black smoke ,

They occur when smoke detectors are triggered by smoke that is not a result of a dangerous fire.

However, opaque solutions designed to avoid critical public scrutiny do not seem particularly democratic.

But smoke alarms don't prevent fires.

You must not smoke while working.

More black smoke rising from Rabaa.

There is no smoke without fire.

There is no fire without smoke.

And the shade of black smoke .

And a shadow of thick smoke .

And a shade of black smoke ,

And the shade of black smoke ,

And the shade of black smoke .

And a shadow of thick smoke .

And a shade of black smoke ,

And the shade of black smoke ,

And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

We had two opaque boxes one with government approved THC marijuana, and one with nothing.

Indeed, even in the opaque terms of contemporary politics, the German case is particularly vexing.

Finance has always been opaque, quite apart from the motive of swindling the investing public.

Half of guys who smoke are impotent.