All 4 Uses
transparent
in
The Handmaid's Tale
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- Coming towards us there's a small procession, a funeral: three women, each with a black transparent veil thrown over her headdress.
Chpt 8 *transparent = easily seen through
- I feel transparent. Surely they will be able to see through me.
Chpt 14 *transparent = easily seen and understood (despite attempts to hide deceive)
- I thought he should continue to act, in public, as if I were a large vase or a window: part of the background, inanimate or transparent.
Chpt 26transparent = invisible (or like a window--ignored while looking beyond it)
- May the Lord open, Janine would have replied, tonelessly, in her transparent voice, her voice of raw egg white.†
Chpt 22
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
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)