reconditein a sentence
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She's working on some recondite problem in theoretical mathematics.
recondite = incomprehensible to people of ordinary understanding or knowledge
- MARTHA: ABSTRUSE! In the sense of recondite. (source)
- The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. (source)
- In midwinter a field biologist discovered all his belongings, two rifles, camping gear, a diary filled with incoherent ranting about truth and beauty and recondite ecological theory, in an empty cabin near Tofty, its interior filled with drifted snow.† (source)
- A pair of actors trapped in a recondite play with no hint of plot or narrative.† (source)
- We preferred to probe the recondite "serious issues.† (source)
- Long afterward, writing of this time in his boyhood, John Quincy Adams would recall secreting himself in a closet to smoke tobacco and read Milton's Paradise Lost, trying without success to determine what "recondite charm" in them gave his father so much pleasure.† (source)
- The group is said to have influence on the recondite process by which ideas become legislation.
- Her vagaries soon ceased to puzzle me: the psychology of Jane Braithwaite was not recondite. (source)
- ...where he had spent his brightest years in recondite pursuits, (source)
- The savor was slender, elusive, and recondite, a ghostly bouquet that haunted rather than lived on the tongue.† (source)
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- The Garden of Forking Paths is an enormous riddle, or parable, whose theme is time; this recondite cause prohibits its mention.† (source)
- He may have some deep-seated recondite complaint.† (source)
- Had he that deep-seated recondite complaint, and did any doctor find it out?† (source)
- But still another inquiry remains; one often agitated by the more recondite Nantucketers.† (source)
- The Directorship devoured enough time and peace to prevent Gottlieb from going on with the ever more recondite problems of his inquiry into the nature of specificity, and his inquiry prevented him from giving enough attention to the Institute to keep it from falling to pieces.† (source)
- There were either no villages, or the people were hostile, or the director, who like the rest of us fed out of tins, with an occasional old he-goat thrown in, didn't want to stop the steamer for some more or less recondite reason.† (source)
- There was a vein of dry humor, or what not, in the mast-man; and, whether in freak of patriarchal irony touching Billy's youth and athletic frame, or for some other and more recondite reason, from the first in addressing him he always substituted Baby for Billy.† (source)
- Now my original business—that of a conveyancer and title hunter, and drawer-up of recondite documents of all sorts—was considerably increased by receiving the master's office.† (source)
- But to learn all about these recondite matters, your best way is at once to descend into the blubber-room, and have a long talk with its inmates.† (source)
- Newman had once spent a morning, in the course of business, at Mr. Babcock's birthplace, and, for reasons too recondite to unfold, his visit there always assumed in his mind a jocular cast.† (source)
- With her near-sightedness, and those tremulous fingers of hers, at once inflexible and delicate, she could not be a seamstress; although her sampler, of fifty years gone by, exhibited some of the most recondite specimens of ornamental needlework.† (source)
- They have a feeling that it is, in some recondite sense, superior to the common speech of their kind.† (source)
- divers misfortunes and miseries; for the valiant Amadis of Gaul found himself in the power of his mortal enemy Arcalaus the magician, who, it is positively asserted, holding him captive, gave him more than two hundred lashes with the reins of his horse while tied to one of the pillars of a court; and moreover there is a certain recondite author of no small authority who says that the Knight of Phoebus, being caught in a certain pitfall, which opened under his feet in a certain castle, on falling found himself bound hand and foot in a deep pit underground, where they administered to him one of those things they call clysters, of sand and snow-water, that well-nigh finished him; an† (source)
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