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They are certainly too abtruse and tangled to solve in an afternoon over a couple of beers.

The Professor and the Policeman 2009

Caught in this abtruse a stand, neither could they wrest the democratic demands nor make any advance in launching the decisive battle for revolution.

Archive 2006-06-01 Abhay N 2006

Even after Wozzeck, when he adopted Schoenberg's abtruse twelve-tone system, his music remained accessible; his violin concerto is as close to a popular concert staple as a twelve-tone composition can get, and his last opera, Lulu, is gorgeous-sounding despite its ugly subject-matter.

Archive 2006-01-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006

He left behind him a manuscript book full of abtruse theories, proving by phrenology, by craniology, and even by mathematics, that the

A Raw Youth 2003

The contents had been prepared by the squire himself; for it was a beverage in the skilful mixture of which he particularly prided himself: alleging that it was too abtruse and complex for the comprehension of an ordinary servant.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

He could talk knowledgeably about such abstract, abtruse subjects as Cartesian philosophy or quantum mechanics.

The Pursuit of Happiness Douglas Kennedy 2001

He could talk knowledgeably about such abstract, abtruse subjects as Cartesian philosophy or quantum mechanics.

The Pursuit of Happiness Douglas Kennedy 2001

And at a period when the progress of physical science is obstructed by that exhausting intellectual and manual labor, indispensable for its advancement, which it is the object of the Analytical Engine to relieve, I think the application of machinery in aid of the most complicated and abtruse calculations can no longer be deemed unworthy of the attention of the country.

The Fortune Cookie File from Karl Lehenbauer Part 2 1989

It has arrived so promptly on time following its elliptical course, at such a rate that the radius vector, a line from the sun to the earth, passes over equal areas in equal times, furnishing every moment an abtruse problem difficult for a scholar to solve.

The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments

The giving way of the wall is easily accounted for, by less abtruse rules than those of magic; but it so astonished the builder, that he was as anxious to restore the conjured plank, as he was just before to retain it.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 550, June 2, 1832 Various