Adjective : abstruse theories. From Dictionary.com.
What also about Wen Pa-ch'a's elegant diction; and Li I-shan's abstruseness?. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
But it is an attempt to approach the supreme abstruseness of what surrounds us. From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
Lastly, we demonstrated in Chap.VIII. that the difficulty of understanding Scripture lies in the language only, and not in the abstruseness of the argument. From Wordnik.com. [Theologico-Political Treatise] Reference
But to swing from bareness and boredom to the other extreme of abstruseness and complexity is no remedy: in these latter qualities there exists no special compensating virtue. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit and Music] Reference
It is, then, correct to say that Saint-John Perse, behind an apparent abstruseness and symbols frequently difficult to grasp, brings a universal message to his contemporaries. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1960 - Presentation Speech] Reference
In this respect he relieves the study of agricultural science from the abstruseness of technical science, and thus renders himself easily comprehended by all classes of readers. From Wordnik.com. [Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)] Reference
This volume is occupied in the discussion of points of great difficulty and abstruseness; yet the style is remarkable for clearness and perspicuity, and the reasoning is logical and irresistible. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition] Reference
They have taken up residence — both content in being confounded and resigned to his abstruseness, they have pledged their unfailing allegiance to Will Oldham the man and his countless incarnations. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzine » Bonnie Prince Billy] Reference
I mean, assuming the "New Yorker Cartoon Law of Biting Satire", which states that the jocularity of a particular pasquinade is directly proportional to the abstruseness of the language in which you couch it, it was hilarious. From Wordnik.com. [JERRY BRUCKHEIMER’S LAWS OF SCIENCE] Reference
There are two common senses of this: (1) opposition to the spread of knowledge-a policy of withholding knowledge from the general public; and (2) a style (as in literature or art) characterized by deliberate vagueness or abstruseness. From Wordnik.com. ['Daily Voting News' For August 08, 2008] Reference
Pantheism of Force sounds unreal and unsound, compared with the sensible remarks upon the same subject by Dr. Badgers337 who sees the abstruseness of the doctrine and does not care to include it in hard and fast lines or to subject it to mere logical analysis. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
It was also afterwards found, that by this abstruseness and counterfeit irresolution he meant to penetrate into the designs and inclinations of the great men: for his jealous spirit construed all their words, all their looks, into crimes; and stored them up in his heart against a day of vengeance. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
"It progresses from abstruseness to absurdity," grumbles the Duncan Shepherd. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
Hence the unaccountable mixture of seeming simplicity and real abstruseness in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits] Reference
If abstruseness is your subject - and it's hard to find any other for C - you have to get it right. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
And the important fact is that this abstruseness is not verbal, any more than it is the abstruseness of fog and cloud. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle] Reference
It is the abstruseness of the proposition which stimulates research -- which stirs profoundly the brain of the thinking world. From Wordnik.com. [In Search of the Unknown] Reference
We also tried manfully to "attend" to the sermons, which, considering the length and abstruseness of them, was, I think, creditable to us. From Wordnik.com. [A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son] Reference
They have none of the abstruseness of idea or obscurity of expression which mark the written communications of a solitary mind with itself. From Wordnik.com. [Nathaniel Hawthorne] Reference
The same person cannot be expected to excel in the abstruseness of metaphysical science, and in the ravishing effusions of poetical genius. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries] Reference
As a writer, though making no attempt at elegance in style, he is deemed remarkably clear and direct when the abstruseness of his usual themes is considered. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11] Reference
Though its style is clear, the abstruseness of the subjects discussed and the transcendental scope of its author, make the train of thought often difficult to follow. From Wordnik.com. [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference
What troubles me more than this misapprehension is the genuine abstruseness of many of the matters I shall be obliged to talk about, and the difficulty of making them intelligible at one hearing. From Wordnik.com. [A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy] Reference
Much was their laughter at the wild guesses of the thoughtless and the giddy; and great the triumph of the swain who penetrated the mystery, and successfully removed the abstruseness of the problem. From Wordnik.com. [Imogen A Pastoral Romance] Reference
The churches all advised moderation in the view of the abstruseness and darkness of the subject of controversy; and Bolsec was merely sentenced to banishment from the city whose doctrinal quietude he had disturbed. From Wordnik.com. [Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation] Reference
He has been especially fortunate in hitting the golden mean between forbidding abstruseness and trivial popularity, and consequently enjoys the esteem of those learned in music as well as of those merely happy in it. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
We shall, as I say, utterly misunderstand Browning at every step of his career if we suppose that he was the sort of man who would be likely to take a pleasure in asserting the subtlety and abstruseness of his message. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Browning] Reference
While this is undoubtedly Wolf's release that most forsakes abstruseness and poetry for direct, frothing discontent, the title track closes the album with a sweetly intoned, delicate simile: "All my words for sadness/Like Eskimo snow on unmanned crosses.". From Wordnik.com. [Cokemachineglow.com] Reference
What also about Wen Pa-ch’a’s elegant diction; and Li I-shan’s abstruseness?. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng] Reference
Galen, the simplicity of the former being strongly contrasted with the abstruseness and refinement of the latter. ". From Wordnik.com. [Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study] Reference
The celebrated abstruseness of Nabokov’s vocabulary seems to keep itself going without much reference to any human reality, and without much in the way of wit, either. From Wordnik.com. [A lost masterpiece?] Reference
Or, indeed, for abstruseness at all. From Wordnik.com. ['As Good as Great Poetry Gets'] Reference
"Readily; I have solved others of an abstruseness ten thousand times greater. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1] Reference
"I have no time for abstruseness.". From Wordnik.com. [The Languages of Pao]
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