abstruseness

"Readily; I have solved others of an abstruseness ten thousand times greater.

The abstruseness makes scientific problems sound more difficult than they are, and the authors sound more learned.

It's a good impulse, to join the familiarities of a domestic drama with the abstruseness of mathematics.

She is a smart, strong-willed Frenchwoman, unfortunately given to Gallic abstruseness.

It was the most experimental modernist novel yet published in England, and its abstruseness was found additionally baffling in the context of the war.

The concept of music for Bartolucci is based on naturalness and spontaneity, avoiding abstractions and abstruseness.

Simplicity, that is, "rejection of affectation and abstruseness [of] language"; critics encouraged simple, clear prose and verse styles.

Indeed, Mr. Babbitt belongs to a curious phenomenon in 20th-century music - akin perhaps to one of those lonely 14th-century masters of contrapuntal abstruseness.

Here was some of the thorniest jazz ever made, and Mr. Braxton, a pipe-smoking, chess-playing intellectual, made a perfect mascot for the new abstruseness.

Perhaps the point is to ridicule the highfalutin abstruseness of these terms with the earthy, direct vaudeville of the images, but it's hard to tell who is subverting whom.

The book represented a separate and unknowable province of thought in which she moved free and independent from him, her privacy accentuated by the abstruseness of the language she used.

The Pythagorean theorem has attracted interest outside mathematics as a symbol of mathematical abstruseness, mystique, or intellectual power; popular references in literature, plays, musicals, songs, stamps and cartoons abound.

Similarly, reporters covering the nearly seven-month trial of Manuel A. Noriega objected that their networks and newspapers quickly lost interest in light of the abstruseness of the legal claims.

The failure of these investigations to yield practical results has frequently been explained by abstruseness in the case of Plowden and exaggerated analysis in the case of Fulton.

(Some passages of "The Predictors" read like Greek in their abstruseness, although Mr. Bass rarely uses terminology without coming back to it and defining it further along.)

He would project the portrait as he quoted one of his favourite opening lines, a sentence written by the novelist John Fowles, a line deliberately created for its rigour, opacity and unyielding abstruseness.

Dennis Harvey, for Los Angeles-based magazine Variety, wrote "[The film's] spiritual abstruseness and the script's myriad other ambiguities might infuriate in a film less ingeniously designed on more tangible fronts.

The last charter revision, those who worked on it are quick to point out, took more than two years, consumed several millions of dollars and grappled with issues of such abstruseness that many who served on the commission can barely remember what they were.

"Well," observed Markley, after contemplating this milieu with a quizzical and slightly troubled frown, "the problem of how we got here is equalled in its abstruseness only by the problem of how we are going to get away.

It was a complex event, in which matters of cold cash and loophole opportunism were intersected by sincere longings for cultural identity, and where exquisite interpretations of legal language were penetrated by conceptual analysis of an almost metaphysical abstruseness.

Legalese is an English term first used in 1914 for legal writing that is very difficult for laymen to read and understand, the implication being that this abstruseness is deliberate for excluding the legally untrained and to justify high fees.

Despite the abstruseness, there was an omnipresent swing: when Mr. Moore and Mr. Pinto dug in together, the results were like an update of the hard bop that Jackie McLean made with Bobby Hutcherson more than 40 years ago.

They complain that the new approach has taken the judging out of judging and replaced it with an oppressively mechanistic regime, one with the abstruseness of the Internal Revenue Code and overtones of Franz Kafka, George Orwell and Rube Goldberg.