Because of the refinement of his technique and the abstruseness of his symbolic programs, the successors of Jan van Eyck borrowed only selectively from his art.
And while, at the beginning, the little difficulties and mild offenses of "Dubliners" were exciting, and the greater challenges of "A Portrait" mind expanding, and "Ulysses," despite all the obscenity and abstruseness, simply monumental, nevertheless you're now finding the first chapters of Work in Progress bewildering.
Then, as though suddenly sensing the abstruseness of his own oratory, he sat back.
Arrangers mock Experientialists for self-indulgence, tedious abstruseness, and bad faith.
The abstruseness of some of "The Shining" is arguably a flaw, but "Room 237" reminds you that only an artistic work that resists tidy explanation can accommodate such enjoyable flights of interpretive fancy.
If abstruseness is your subject – and it's hard to find any other for C – you have to get it right.
It might be easy to snigger at the work's wilful abstruseness, but there remains a glimmer of cerebral frisson in such historic cultural vexations.
Beckett packs an intentionally incoherent plot with dense literary and philosophical allusions, quotations and foreign languages (Latin, French, German, Spanish and Italian), seeming generally hell-bent on infuriating the reader with his studied abstruseness.
Robust ratings prevail, while the departure of Amanda "middle distance" Burton in 2004 has seen wilful abstruseness replaced by a slicker, Spooks-ier, less overtly guff approach.
This is playing at abstruseness - and such games can only finish badly".
Dark Souls revels in its abstruseness: it goes out of its way to make those who wouldn't say they were RPG veterans feel like they missed a crucial class at school.
