semiopaque

It looked like part of the parking lot, but tented with semiopaque plastic sheets.

The light grew red as blood, was baked against the inside of the face-plate into a semiopaque layer.

The racks of glistening gray forms in semiopaque body bags, their features partly visible, almost made her prefer the darkness.

The figures were distributed in clear, blister-packed random 4-packs, semiopaque garbage can 10-packs, and boxed fixed sculpt 28 packs.

It is enclosed by latticework and semiopaque sheeting, adorned with inspirational quotations, that only partly obscure the surrounding trade center bathtub.

"No." I looked down at the pseudostone, semiopaque or semitransparent, depending on one's philosophy and vision, very smooth, shot with milky streaks and red ones.

Most of them are fidgety map-like diagrams inscribed in pencil, ink, paint and other mediums on long sheets of semiopaque Mylar lighted from behind.

Fine-grained blond maple cabinets in kitchens and oversized bathrooms are fronted with panels of semiopaque glass, and small white subway tiles installed vertically cover areas of the bathroom walls.

I put some Plymouth on ice for myself, drew the thinner, semiopaque drapery across the big windows, and found Walter Cronkite on a colorcast speaking evenly, steadily, reservedly of unspeakable international disasters.

A dense, semiopaque shard cut by this 19-dollar piece of spring-loaded Brazilian craftsmanship recently rose from what was left of my ravished toenail and traveled across the room, landing in a box of tax records, where it remains."

"I said it should be more translucent, because it would steam up when you take a shower," Ms. Dubbeldam added mischievously, noting that they reached a compromise with semiopaque panels that permit the passage of light but preserve a bather's privacy.

And none more so than "Lohan Manifesting Himself as an 11-Headed Guanyin" (circa 1178), in which a seated holy man, framed by a semiopaque halo, calmly pulls back the skin of his face to reveal the head of the god within as a colleague stares with queasy apprehension.