"recondite" is a perfectly valid and usable word in written English.
It means "difficult to understand; abstruse" and is often used to describe something that is obscure or profound. For example, you might say "The recondite theories of string theory have not yet been resolved by scientists."
Though its details are recondite, the dispute is at bottom about the relationship between the NHS and private health-care, and about New Labour's attitude towards the independent sector.Aneurin Bevan, the NHS's architect, was once asked how he persuaded doctors to sign up to the new NHS in 1948: "I stuffed their mouths with gold," he replied.
But their juxtaposition provides even the hardened student with some new perspectives, and there are useful if brief looks at more recondite questions such as Israel's relations with the Gulf states.And as an insight into the mind of an historian, this is a valuable collection.
"A lot of people like that re-form", but mostly of a less recondite kind.
An international symposium will consider more recondite areas of Joyce's work—"The Menippean Strain in Ulysses", for instance.A large majority of the breakfast celebrants will not have read the book, and a free breakfast might not be enough to get them started.
The government hopes the new law will preclude challenges to its investigatory practices under the Human Rights Act.Perhaps because of its recondite theme, the law's passage created less of a stir than it deserved to, despite the vigorous opposition it provoked among businesspeople, peers, trade unions and the civil-liberties lobby.
But George Bush and Tony Blair went further than the speculative conclusions of Unscom and UNMOVIC, whose reports were always a little too recondite to sway the masses.Mr Bush and Mr Blair argued that the threat was imminent, adding some specific and alarming allegations.
This melded two recondite concepts unveiled by Mr Miliband at his party's 2012 conference: "One Nation Labour" and "pre-distribution".
In Britain the domestic intelligence services reckon that up to several thousand people stand ready to carry out violent acts on Islam's behalf people who are unlikely to change their minds because of a recondite debate on the proprieties of jihad conducted from an Egyptian prison.
As a non-mathematician, he appreciates the difficulty of explaining a recondite mathematical problem to a general audience, and gives a vivid account both of the passion that mathematicians have for their subject and of the fascination for this particular problem.John Derbyshire's book is more of a historical adventure.
It is also, at least on the surface, as recondite as "Paradise" was topical, ending abruptly with the Spanish-American war of 1898.
They enjoy long holidays, and spend a lot of time thinking about their favourite recondite subject, subsidised (if stingily) by the taxpayer.
