For a man whose clear thinking is changing the rules of fashion, Reed Krakoff is rather abstruse.
And additionally, all the huffing and puffing, and all the toil and trouble seem very un-Conservative, since Conservative characteristically prefer their politics very simple; in this case it's all about tactics, some of them rather abstruse.
This history provides the context for understanding what was on the minds of the founding fathers in drafting the Second Amendment, and for deciphering its rather abstruse wording.
Yes, I got the memo -- my last column was rather lengthy, and even a bit abstruse.
In this case the political opposition he wants to construct is not the rather abstruse AV v FPTP, but reform versus the status quo: "the alternative vote versus the hereditary vote" is the slogan Mr Brown road-tested in the Commons this week.Or, perhaps, the fact that this new move is a revival of a promise Labour made in 1997 is, in a way, part of its appeal.
His lecture on the soccer pitch was on a rather abstruse commentary by a second- or third-century Indian philosopher, Nagarjuna ("The form particle does not produce sense-consciousness because it transcends the senses").
Few journalists have the statistical chops; most scientists and social scientists are too abstruse.
(The details are too abstruse for this piece, but here are a couple of links).
It may have looked rather abstruse in parts, but it is important, and worth at least some of your time and effort, I think.
But courtroom science is increasingly abstruse.
