| They must have found their teacher too sophisticated, too full of recondite allusions for them to follow. |
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| Bruce was a lively and fascinating speaker, with a huge fund of anecdotes and recondite facts. |
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| No recondite phrase or pleasing neologism, it is a wordless summons like that made by the infant in distress. |
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| His accompanying text may not answer every question on this recondite subject. |
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| Hellenistic literature displayed a mandarin artificiality full of recondite, learned allusions and a lively, realistic interest in everyday life. |
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| It is a mine of interesting and recondite information, written by the leading authorities in their fields. |
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| The recondite topic of usury allowed Noonan to consider the problem of doctrinal development at greater length. |
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| Imagery is of central importance to all three poets, and their use of images is daring, varied, and frequently recondite. |
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| She metamorphosed into a highly intelligent woman who engaged the General on recondite matters of French history and culture. |
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| And if the model of critical practice sounds urbane, recondite and not a little esoteric, it need not be dull. |
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| Hansen uses short sentences and has a knack for clarifying opaque and recondite ideas. |
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| Derrida burst on to the world stage in the 1960s with his recondite theory known as deconstruction. |
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| The biographer's contextualising presence allows us to catch even the most recondite allusion. |
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| The Buddha's monks were not to speculate about the future or the past, or about such recondite questions as the beginning or end of the world. |
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| Whether in science, philosophy, or religion, the use of recondite terminology has a tendency to impede the dissemination of useful concepts and theories. |
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| How else to explain the popularity of a novel so free of plot, so obsessed with existential rumination and recondite philosophy? |
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| This study shows that throughout his life, Guru Nanak did not indulge in metaphysical abstractions or recondite analysis of various religious thoughts. |
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| I have known non-intellectual teachers and writers with a marvelous capacity for getting recondite points across to the most obtuse student or reader. |
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| Feeling uncertain of his understanding of the mathematical concepts, he asked senior mathematicians to test his grasp of the more recondite concepts. |
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| But if you dress up the idea in a forbidding vocabulary, full of neologisms and recondite references to philosophy, then you may have a prescription for academic stardom. |
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| You cannot stand firm in the Lord if you do not receive the recondite teachings of the Holy Spirit. |
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| Let's show the world that we can be lucid and enthusiastic explainers of recondite ideas, not merely the flamboyant show-offs that unfair stereotypes so often paint us to be. |
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| He took his stories from writers more recondite than Ovid and Livy, the sources for the painters of the Bourbon monarchy and the Napoleonic empire. |
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| This study shows that throughout his life, the Guru did not indulge in metaphysical abstractions or recondite analysis of various religious thoughts. |
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| Classical allusions, poetical turns of phrase, antique diction, recondite words. |
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| Humanly speaking, it is a more important matter to play the fiddle, even badly, than to write huge works upon recondite subjects. |
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| But I beseech thee, wise Doxodox! instruct me in thy dialectics, that I may embrace thy more recondite lore. |
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| Suggestions for certain personages... came from various sources which... some reader may have recognized. They are not very recondite. |
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| Silent calligraphy sounds that were like those of the sweet fluent water of a recondite stream. |
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| His recondite imagery is couched in phrases that make up in a kind of wistful hinted beauty what they lack in lucidity. |
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| They afford a lesson to the modern metaphysical and recondite writers not to overvalue their works. |
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| In the play of fancy, Wordsworth, to my feelings, is not always graceful and sometimes recondite. |
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| Sites like TheFamilyHistoryStore.com, GeneaLinks.com and RootsWeb.com, with their menus of recondite offerings, make up a deluxe spa for the ego. |
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| Animals of this class are so recondite in their habits... so little known to naturalists beyond the more common species. |
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| Finally, after many years of investigation, the pyramid has yielded up its most recondite secrets. |
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| The voices of recondite writers quoted at length, forgotten storytellers weaving narratives, obscure scholars savaging one another. |
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| The young urchins,... not being able to guess at its recondite machinery, were almost tempted to hail the wondrous work as magic. |
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| Cousin's lectures take their initial cue from the weighty treatises of a remote, recondite thinker named Immanuel Kant. |
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| But this by no means excludes power, since on the contrary I have tried to show the insinuations, the imbrications of power into even the most recondite of studies. |
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| It was hardly foreordained that a poor orphan from darkest Brittany... working in the recondite realms of Semitic philology, should play such a role in his time. |
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| Had he dug more deeply, had he unearthed more recondite truth, had he used more difficult and ingenious methods, he would not have been understood. |
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