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    Use "abstruse" in a sentence

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    abstruse


    1. presented in a rather abstruse way


    2. Any reader will reject an abstruse text


    3. Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules


    4. abstruse passages in Bhgawat Puran


    5. To guests he seldom spoke and what he did say was abstruse and esoteric


    6. Not everyone, Principal Klieglight had noted, could follow his more abstruse expositions


    7. mysterious of all abstruse learning; so reflect well on the whole of it


    8. Per the Prophesy’s abstruse logic, the extraction is not capital punishment


    9. Was it only the evening before that I had sailed away from Vilm in glory and in joy, leaving the form of the abstruse but beautiful youth standing in such a golden radiance that it was as the form of an angel? Down among the dunes, where the grey ribbons of the sea-grass were violently fluttering and indigo clouds lay in an unbroken level over leaden waves, I sat and ate my rusks and was wretched


    10. Your entire “personal” Life, your Destiny is formed in this way — from “instant” to “instant”, from choice to choice — which I defined by such “an abstruse” term as “the individual rotation Cycle”

    11. Most scientists spend their entire lives studying some abstruse topic or phenomenon, and die without any of their data ever being read, compared, or evaluated to any other data


    12. With me, Telly, tried to keep up a semblance of normality and familiarity, asking me matter of factly, “How"s it going Nicky?” to which I answered, “Fine, Telly, fine,” and gave him bits and pieces of college news and my progress in our abstruse discipline


    13. Activists becoming as insanely specialized as scientists: except that they are not publicly sanctified and supported by Western Society as Scientists who work on abstruse things that have nothing to do with human existence


    14. or relationships underlie the phenomena we call beauty is very ancient, and too abstruse to trouble us here


    15. I am occupied with starting a general outline, with the impartation of ideas, with the grounding of a few basic concepts in the consciousness of the reader, and with an attempt to clothe this most abstruse and difficult subject in such a form that some new rhythm of thought may be set in motion, and some new realisations be grasped and held


    16. But I had no inclination for the law, even in this less abstruse study of it, which my family approved


    17. There were scholars among them, who had spent more years in acquiring abstruse lore, connected with the divine profession, than Mr


    18. Her visit was, I remember, extremely unwelcome to Holmes, for he was immersed at the moment in a very abstruse and complicated problem concerning the peculiar persecution to which John Vincent Harden, the well-known tobacco millionaire, had been subjected


    19. There still remained an arrest to be effected, but what were these commonplace rogues that he should soil his hands with them? An abstruse and learned specialist who finds that he has been called in for a case of measles would experience something of the annoyance which I read in my friend's eyes


    20. "Well, it would be absurd to deny that the case is a very abstruse and complicated one, but I can promise you that I will look into the matter and let you know any points which may strike me

    21. The point I want to make here is that there is a special paradox in the relationship between mathematics and investment attitudes on common stocks, which is this: Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative are the conclusions we draw therefrom


    22. Her visit was, I remember, extremely unwelcome to Holmes, for he was immersed at the moment in a very abstruse and complicated problem concerning the peculiar persecution to which John Vincent Harden, the well known tobacco millionaire, had been subjected


    23. "Tut, tut, child; tut, tut," responded Professor Porter, in a kindly and indulgent tone, "do not trouble your pretty head with such weighty and abstruse problems," and again he wandered slowly off in still another direction, his eyes bent upon the ground at his feet, his hands clasped behind him beneath the flowing tails of his coat


    24. Science solved a thousand and one various abstruse, complicated questions bearing on criminal law, but failed to give an answer to the question he had formed


    25. Accordingly, imagining that classical music was easier (as well as, partly, for the sake of originality), I suddenly came to the conclusion that I loved abstruse German music


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    Synonyms for "abstruse"

    abstruse deep recondite involved intricate abstract obscure difficult perplexing puzzling

    "abstruse" definitions

    difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge