abstruse , also: obstruse old use

The subject is not so abstruse as I thought it was.

Some of his later work was too experimental or abstruse for the critics and the public.

At times I considered him to be quite willfully abstruse.

There are certain indications in modern physical theory, too abstruse for me.

Difficulty in recruiting people due to abstruse nature of work.

Games are too abstruse, but food is common knowledge.

Some found them too dreamy and abstruse, to the point of being unintelligible.

Next, the young Bacon took up the study of law, and mastered that abstruse science.

And not because his movies are difficult or abstruse.

I asked, showing him a work whose pages were covered with abstruse letters.

Duration, time, and eternity, are, not without reason, thought to have something very abstruse in their nature.

As the stories were told through the centuries, did people have to puzzle over their abstruse meaning?

Anyhow, any system of thought becomes abstruse if it's examined long enough.

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

The subject is too abstruse and complicated to be discussed in detail here.

The subject was, however, too abstruse for the general reader, and the book did not meet with the attention which it deserved.

The abstract is abstruse enough that I believe it.

This may seem like an abstruse formula for success.

He had the look of someone who was making abstruse calculations with the most intense mental effort.

This is an aspect of category theory, and has a reputation for being abstruse.

"Among the words, many are unusual and some are abstruse."

There was no one with whom he could discuss these abstruse theories seriously.

People were discussing these abstruse questions with the same enthusiasm as they discuss football today.

"It's literary," she said, "but not so abstruse that no one knows what you're talking about."

For many workers, the dispute is not about abstruse legal issues, but bread-and-butter ones.