as in esoteric
difficult for one of ordinary knowledge or intelligence to understand
you're not the only one who finds Einstein's theory of relativity abstruse
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Such abstruse questions seem far removed from present-day concerns.
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Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2024
The decades-old concept could explain many things, such as where WIMPs come from, but its main job is to solve a more abstruse problem.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
Hollywood places a naturally high premium on narrative coherence, whereas Herbert’s text—with its abstruse tangle of names and concepts, its intricate layering of conscious and subconscious perspectives—demands otherworldly leaps of imagination.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2024
Here, her motives are more abstruse, to slightly dimmed dramatic effect.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Feb. 2024
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Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2024
The decades-old concept could explain many things, such as where WIMPs come from, but its main job is to solve a more abstruse problem.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
Hollywood places a naturally high premium on narrative coherence, whereas Herbert’s text—with its abstruse tangle of names and concepts, its intricate layering of conscious and subconscious perspectives—demands otherworldly leaps of imagination.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2024
Here, her motives are more abstruse, to slightly dimmed dramatic effect.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Feb. 2024
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