All 9 Uses of
transparent
in
The Glass Menagerie
- In an old-fashioned whatnot in the living room are seen scores of transparent glass animals.
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- At the end of Tom's opening commentary, the dark tenement wall slowly becomes transparent and reveals the interior of the ground-floor Wingfield apartment.†
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- Just beyond, separated from the living room by a wide arch or second proscenium with transparent jaded portieres (or second curtain), is the dining room.†
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- The audience hears and sees the opening scene in the dining room through both the transparent fourth wall of the building and the transparent gauze portieres of the dining-room arch.†
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- The audience hears and sees the opening scene in the dining room through both the transparent fourth wall of the building and the transparent gauze portieres of the dining-room arch.†
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- This transparent exterior wall is not brought down again until the very end of the play, during Tom's final speech.†
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- AMANDA: Is my head so transparent?†
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- Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass.†
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- The window is filled with pieces of colored glass, tiny transparent bottles in delicate colors, like bits of a shattered rainbow.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(transparent as in: transparent shower door) able to be seen through with clarity
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(2)
(transparent as in: transparent lie) obvious despite attempts to hide
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(3)
(transparent as in: transparent decision making) easily observable or understood