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Success and failure in the movie business is the most recondite of qualities.

Today, a number of doyens in the recondite field of AI admit they don’t know where all this is headed.

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.

Pierre Boulez — like Bernstein, a composer, though in a more recondite modernist mode — innovated with repertory mixtures and concert formats.

Throughout, the syntax is punchy and slangy, while the diction often grows brazenly recondite.