- anti-intellectual
practices of
deliberately presenting information in an
abstruse and
imprecise manner that
limits further inquiry and
understanding of a...
- from obfuscāre (to darken);
synonyms include the
words beclouding and
abstrusity.
Doctors are
faulted for
using jargon to
conceal unpleasant facts from...
-
authority compelled the
communal leaders to make
themselves familiar with the
abstruse questions of
Jewish law.
Polish Jewry found its
views of life
shaped by...
- from Pahlavi, but
Arabic lexical items predominated for more
abstract or
abstruse subjects and
often replaced their Persian equivalents in
polite discourse...
-
while others, such as the
Growing Seed, are sophisticated,
profound and
abstruse. When
asked by his
disciples why he
speaks in
parables to the people, Jesus...
-
Racial Manifesto could have been avoided. It
dealt with the
scientific abstruseness of a few
teachers and journalists, a
conscientious German essay translated...
- "small man". Of all Gogol's stories, "The Nose" has
stubbornly defied all
abstruse interpretations: D.S.
Mirsky declared it "a
piece of
sheer play, almost...
- that subject's
habitual characteristics. It is
sometimes used to
counter abstruse arguments that
something might not be what it
appears to be.
Indiana poet...
-
Machine in:
Wolfram R.
Keller &
Dagmar Schlueter (Ed.) 'A
fantastic and
abstruse Latinity'? Hiberno-Continental
Cultural and
Literary Interactions in the...
-
music that was
intensely rational and for many
listeners impenetrably abstruse, died on Sa****ay. He was 94 and
lived in Princeton, N.J." Bainbridge,...
