recondite
Example Sentences
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Today, the reverse can seem true, with these stylized spectacles coming across as a bit remote, recondite and sturdy next to the naturalistic emotional urgency of the Italian operas.
From New York Times
Pierre Boulez — like Bernstein, a composer, though in a more recondite modernist mode — innovated with repertory mixtures and concert formats.
From New York Times
Throughout, the syntax is punchy and slangy, while the diction often grows brazenly recondite.
From Washington Post
In the 1950s and ’60s, Auden hoped he might be regarded as “a minor Atlantic Goethe” even as his poetry grew loose and talky, his diction occasionally recondite.
From Washington Post
The five-foot deepening involved not some recondite engineering challenge; essentially it required moving muck.
From Washington Post
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