He did not write abstruse philosophical treatises but engaging philosophical dialogues meant to appeal to a less philosophically inclined audience.
I cannot believe how abstruse, awfully written and unintelligible they are.
As James Wood writes in this week's issue: Literary theorists used to say that their most abstruse prose was "writing the difficulty" — that the sentences were tortuous because there was no briskly commonsensical way of representing a complex issue.
Literary theorists used to say that their most abstruse prose was "writing the difficulty" — that the sentences were tortuous because there was no briskly commonsensical way of representing a complex issue.
Taken up with their abstruse questions and writing in a language which More characterizes as Latino-Gothic, scholastic theologians have increasingly forfeited their pastoral relevance.
New York Times writer Ann Wilson Lloyd noted in 1998 that Sterbak's work "has inspired reams of humorless, abstruse theoretical writing that leaves none of her layered metaphors unturned.
Herzen became a Westernizer, though he argued with one camp and then the other, wrote abstruse articles about the Weltgeist for the literary magazines, and then argued some more.
Between Mr. Plesser's outgoing solos, prominent lines made their way through the rest of the ensemble, and it was the larger picture that proved memorable, not least because Ms. Ran has stepped away from the abstruse characteristics of her earlier works and is now writing in a direct, accessible (if still texturally complex) style.
"Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules," Smith wrote.
It's not easy to write about infrastructure: how does one bring to life vast, many-tentacled, technically abstruse and almost unknowable systems, particularly those, like the Interstate, that took decades to build?
The writing, translated by Gitta Honegger, is beautiful and sometimes profound, if occasionally abstruse.
