abstruse

Example Sentences

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Quantum theory may be weird and notoriously abstruse, but it is foundational to modern physics.

From Washington Post

So it is with the material of our heroine’s life: There’s a right way to fashion it, even if at first it seems abstruse.

From Los Angeles Times

Björk’s production and arrangements on “Fossora” present her at her most unapologetically abstruse: closer to contemporary chamber music than to pop, rock or dance music.

From New York Times

The Fed’s methods of dealing with inflation are abstruse stuff.

From New York Times

But he never tired of taking apart established forms and reassembling them in ways that were invariably fresh, frequently witty, sometimes abstruse but consistently stimulating.

From New York Times