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How to use abstruse in a sentence

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The catchy title and cover art attracted many to a tome that otherwise would have been considered way too abstruse to bother with.
Thus, the didactic purpose of the original project dissolved in a welter of abstruse, sentimental versifying.
I am as befuddled as you are when I try to read that deliberately abstruse text.
The many convoluted and abstruse arguments of these programmes do not concern us here.
For you, is it a way of making philosophy, which actually often seems quite abstruse, into something more personal and practical?
Now, this is not an abstruse philosophical distinction that we are seeking to make.
Josh's mind boggled in the futile effort to penetrate the abstruse complexity of an esoteric form of thinking that was altogether foreign to him.
And he covers what could be fairly abstruse philosophical questions in a remarkably clear and simple way.
Newman's passion for abstruse matters of theology strikes Wilson as escapism or worse.
But while his poetry can be overly abstruse, his literary criticism is accessibly sophisticated, if not uniformly engaging.
The matter was however even to him, well within the realms of abstruse cyclone theory.
At 511 pages and laden with purposefully abstruse and obfuscatory language, the constitution meets only the second of Bonaparte's criteria.
He missed lectures, dropped out of courses, spent long nights reading abstruse texts, and slept during the day.
Still, this is a Frank Black album, with its obscure references and abstruse lyrics.
The books range from abstruse scholarship to collections of jokes to model questions for the West Bengal Civil Service entry exam.
We are talking about design and visual culture here, after all, not abstruse aspects of philosophy.
Reform of British institutions, like national health and education, are simply too abstruse for most Americans to understand.
He was a singularly modest man with a passion for accuracy and a gift for the lucid exposition of difficult and abstruse problems.
Elsewhere an exhaustion of original ideas has engendered a permafrost of abstruse theorising untempered by experience.
The Federal Reserve chairman is famous for his opaque remarks and abstruse topics.
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Examples from Classical Literature
With scholars and philosophers they held their own in abstruse and abstract discussions.
Technical and abstruse as his intellectual interests were, he appears to have been anything but a dry-as-dust.
Now Asha was filled with wonder, and asked the babe of many abstruse things, receiving answers beyond his understanding.
It requireth much discernment and much time to enucleate and bring into light their abstruse wisdom and gravely featured virtues.
It is no longer a question of hermeneutics, no longer a struggle between abstruse dogmas of rival churches.
A sect of hermetical philosophers, founded in the fifteenth century, who were engaged in the study of abstruse sciences.
The arguments should not be abstruse but clear and striking.
Mother's mind seemed to be working at some abstruse calculation.
Apparently he had been led into the most abstruse mathematical regions.
Besides, in our day, the very A B C has become a science greatly too abstruse to be any longer taught by pointing a pin from letter to letter.
But I had no inclination for the law, even in this less abstruse study of it, which my family approved.
They have fallen into the gross but common error of confounding the unusual with the abstruse.
Secretaire, you see, and abstruse set of solid mahogany pigeon-holes, one for every letter of the alphabet.
Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere.
There is an abstruse astrologer that saith, If it were not for two things that are constant, no individual would last one moment.
Ordinary people may fear there is some abstruse science about this.
And she, following, applied herself to the most abstruse of Art-studies.
An abstruse, ancient classic, usually called the Book of Changes.
On the one shelf at the library he found Karl Marx, Ricardo, Adam Smith, and Mill, and the abstruse formulas of the one gave no clew that the ideas of another were obsolete.
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