The catchy title and cover art attracted many to a tome that otherwise would have been considered way too abstruse to bother with. |
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Thus, the didactic purpose of the original project dissolved in a welter of abstruse, sentimental versifying. |
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I am as befuddled as you are when I try to read that deliberately abstruse text. |
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The many convoluted and abstruse arguments of these programmes do not concern us here. |
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For you, is it a way of making philosophy, which actually often seems quite abstruse, into something more personal and practical? |
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Now, this is not an abstruse philosophical distinction that we are seeking to make. |
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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. |
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And he covers what could be fairly abstruse philosophical questions in a remarkably clear and simple way. |
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Newman's passion for abstruse matters of theology strikes Wilson as escapism or worse. |
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But while his poetry can be overly abstruse, his literary criticism is accessibly sophisticated, if not uniformly engaging. |
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The matter was however even to him, well within the realms of abstruse cyclone theory. |
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At 511 pages and laden with purposefully abstruse and obfuscatory language, the constitution meets only the second of Bonaparte's criteria. |
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He missed lectures, dropped out of courses, spent long nights reading abstruse texts, and slept during the day. |
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Still, this is a Frank Black album, with its obscure references and abstruse lyrics. |
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The books range from abstruse scholarship to collections of jokes to model questions for the West Bengal Civil Service entry exam. |
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We are talking about design and visual culture here, after all, not abstruse aspects of philosophy. |
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Reform of British institutions, like national health and education, are simply too abstruse for most Americans to understand. |
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He was a singularly modest man with a passion for accuracy and a gift for the lucid exposition of difficult and abstruse problems. |
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Elsewhere an exhaustion of original ideas has engendered a permafrost of abstruse theorising untempered by experience. |
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The Federal Reserve chairman is famous for his opaque remarks and abstruse topics. |
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The results can disconcert, with their abstruse perspectives and cogitative leaps. |
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Is the reader of this text assumed to be put off by difficult, abstruse, theory-driven contemporary art and hungry for work that claims to be more directly understood? |
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More interesting than these abstruse ruminations were her political instincts at the conclusion of the formal broadcast. |
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Similarly astronauts, today's counterpart of the pioneer ocean-crossers of yesteryear, seem by no means youthful and tend to have doctorates in the most abstruse subjects. |
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What perhaps is more important are the abstruse figures, the figures that show that working conditions were traded off to earn the actual monetary income. |
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Its abstruse style may be hard going for those who are not so prepared. |
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This seemingly abstruse argument has threatened to spark a wider trade war in the past. |
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With one compromise after another, this abstruse text has become unreadable. |
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He is a household name, despite the abstruse nature of his work, because he worked extremely hard to market himself and was obsessed with his recognisability. |
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His baroque and intentionally abstruse periodic Latin proved extremely liable to corruption in the extensive and contaminated later manuscript tradition. |
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Once again, it makes this text obscure, abstruse, ideological and, therefore, completely ineffective. |
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But this is just an attempt to forget ourselves, since our desires remain unsatisfied and the meaning of life is still abstruse. |
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But academic decision-making theory tends to be highly detailed and awfully abstruse. |
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And his book-length piece on Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass is still one of the most readable exegeses of this impossibly abstruse work. |
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So far, the highest-rated words include lugubrious, caterwaul, abstruse, minutia, cad, and Czechoslovakia, which is no longer a country but still a word. |
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It also marked the moment when maths began to slip away from being part of the armamentarium of any educated person and towards the dizzyingly abstruse field it has become today. |
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In each world, public statements have often been veiled in arcane and abstruse language, so that any plain, blunt speaking comes as a refreshing break. |
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We must find the strength and skill to relaunch a European path that must revive the enthusiasm and emotion of citizens, who still perceive the EU as something distant and rather abstruse. |
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As science grows more specialized and its language more abstruse, the task of those who interpret its findings for the non-specialist becomes ever more demanding. |
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I shall state the objective sequentially and in the order of their importance, and with as much clarity and brevity as this abstruse subject permits. |
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At the national level, business reporters cover more abstruse topics, such as commodity and stock markets, interest rates, and institutional debt. |
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I give them without the chains of authorities so as to make it easier to memorise them and to make them of wider benefit if Allah Almighty wills, and I append to them a section explaining abstruse expressions. |
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However, the price to be paid for this increased effectiveness is the risk of seeing the concern for ethics become standardised and reduced to a few abstruse ratios. |
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Dialogue should be neither too abstruse nor too simple. |
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Even the technical terms of abstruse science have been allowed to mingle with the lispings of the nursery. |
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Milton was disdainful of the university curriculum, which consisted of stilted formal debates conducted in Latin on abstruse topics. |
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We listen to a snatchy talk on one thing and then another, and abstruse questions that are like the Scotchman's definition of metaphysics. |
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The cause resides certainly in the abstruse terminology, used in unison by publications and service offerings, like a ritual incantation reserved for insiders. |
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A further test for the reader is the abstruse jargon of the netherworld of these nano-terrorists. |
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Parliament's accounts are abstruse, however. |
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Physics seems, in fact, to have got itself into a cul-de-sac, obsessing over theories so mathematically abstruse that nobody even knows how to test them. |
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