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  • s  difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
    the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them

  • If the President is to succeed with his domestic-policy agenda, he needs to convince people that action is necessary on these abstruse issues.
  • Anne Burrell, star of the new Food Network show Secrets of a Restaurant Chef, says she's likewise wary of intentionally abstruse menu language.
  • Solving such monstrous problems requires the use of an abstruse branch of mathematics known as linear programming.
News & Articles

  • How to Create Codes That Even the NSA Can't Break
    In a previous post I described mathematicians' ongoing search for key properties of prime numbers. That effort may seem to belong entirely within the realm of pure mathematics; but surprisingly, the importance of primes goes far beyond the abstruse obsessions of ivory-tower mathematicians. In fact, the use of prime numbers underlies some of the most dramatic events in the news these past weeks ...
    July 31, 2013 - Discover
  • How to Create Codes That Even the NSA Can't Break
    In a previous post I described mathematicians' ongoing search for key properties of prime numbers. That effort may seem to belong entirely within the realm of pure mathematics; but surprisingly, the importance of primes goes far beyond the abstruse obsessions of ivory-tower mathematicians. In fact, the use of prime numbers underlies some of the most dramatic events in the news these past weeks ...
    July 31, 2013 - Discover
Quotes

  • Rajesh Khanna in Hindu
    His cinema is neither abstruse or abstract like art films nor is it escapist and unrealistic like hardcore commercial cinema,Khanna said here today.
  • Alexis Petridis in guardian.co.uk
    The Guardian critic Alexis Petridis said: "It's a really interesting mainstream rock record that absolutely deserves wider audience recognition - the songs are fantastic, the lyrics are beautifully turned, it works a lot of slightly abstruse and...
  • Nicolas Sarkozy in Reuters.uk
    Just because we are dealing with international affairs and diplomacy, there is no reason to be abstruse,Sarkozy told reporters on Thursday, distancing himself from the subtle, convoluted language that made French diplomacy famous.

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