At 511 pages and laden with purposefully abstruse and obfuscatory language, the constitution meets only the second of Bonaparte's criteria. |
For you, is it a way of making philosophy, which actually often seems quite abstruse, into something more personal and practical? |
Thus, the didactic purpose of the original project dissolved in a welter of abstruse, sentimental versifying. |
And he covers what could be fairly abstruse philosophical questions in a remarkably clear and simple way. |
The many convoluted and abstruse arguments of these programmes do not concern us here. |
Newman's passion for abstruse matters of theology strikes Wilson as escapism or worse. |