How To Use Recondite In A Sentence
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Hellenistic literature displayed (sometimes in one and the same work) a mandarin artificiality full of recondite, learned allusions and a lively, realistic interest in everyday life.
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This study shows that throughout his life, Guru Nanak did not indulge in metaphysical abstractions or recondite analysis of various religious thoughts.
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To him, a perfectly unintelligible will is a thing of beauty and a joy for ever; especially if associated with some kind of recondite knavery.
The Eye of Osiris
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His accompanying text may not answer every question on this recondite subject.
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They must have found their teacher too sophisticated, too full of recondite allusions for them to follow.
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He is very recondite in his images, and you are sometimes reminded of one storming in English at a Hindoo -- it is pointless fury, boltless thunder.
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 2
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the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs
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The recondite topic of usury allowed Noonan to consider the problem of doctrinal development at greater length.
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It is a mine of interesting and recondite information, written by the leading authorities in their fields.
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Yet the most recondite and potentially entertaining proposal in Scotland last week crept in unnoticed at the back door while everyone was trying to unravel Salmond's statutory orgy.
Can we have a Stop Making Stupid Bills bill? | Kevin McKenna
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During the English Renaissance, language purists and nationalists resisted the influx of pedantic and recondite inkhorn terms adapted from Greek and Latin such as condisciple, splendidious, and adnichilate.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
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No recondite phrase or pleasing neologism, it is a wordless summons like that made by the infant in distress.
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The biographer's contextualising presence allows us to catch even the most recondite allusion.
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And if the model of critical practice sounds urbane, recondite and not a little esoteric, it need not be dull.
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But if you dress up the idea in a forbidding vocabulary, full of neologisms and recondite references to philosophy, then you may have a prescription for academic stardom.
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Such recondite periphrasis brought its own reward.
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It is filled with all manner of recondite symbolism and extravagant touches, such as a great organ, a choir organ split up between the two towers, and at least eight or nine lesser organs placed over the entrances to the apsidal and even the nave chapels.
W. Halsey Wood's Jerusalem the Golden
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Park in miles, in yards, and in acres, and the number of head of cattle which could be accommodated therein if it were to be utilized for grazing -- that is, turned into grass lands; or, if transformed into tillage, the number of small farmers who would be the proprietors of economic holdings -- that is, a recondite -- that is, an abstruse and a difficult scientific and sociological term.
Mary, Mary
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He took his stories from writers more recondite than Ovid and Livy, the sources for the painters of the Bourbon monarchy and the Napoleonic empire.
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He lives in a semi-basement in West London, and I, of course, live in northern Aberdeenshire. We have in common a passion for recondite and inconvenient gardening.
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Bena" in Zulu means to push out the breast and it may be that the name was a round-about allusion to the proud appearance of the dignified Savage, or possibly it had some other recondite signification.
The Ivory Child
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That did not concern him at all; his preoccupations were more basic and recondite.
THE OUTSIDER
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This study shows that throughout his life, the Guru did not indulge in metaphysical abstractions or recondite analysis of various religious thoughts.
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Imagery is of central importance to all three poets, and their use of images is daring, varied, and frequently recondite.
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(irium, hexylresorcinol) to the couching of simple ideas in recondite jargon in order to give them the patina of harmlessness or of great importance.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3
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No recondite phrase or pleasing neologism, it is a wordless summons like that made by the infant in distress.
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We had to work from material that was both complex and recondite.
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Bruce was a lively and fascinating speaker, with a huge fund of anecdotes and recondite facts.
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He is the poet for people who feel the magic of music and the grandeur of imagination, without being able to lay their finger on the more recondite nuances of "creative work," without so much as ever having heard of "imagism.
Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
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Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages.
Languagehat.com
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Her poems are modishly experimental in style and recondite in subject-matter.
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Such recondite periphrasis brought its own reward.
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Frisic, or northern Dutch, and the Germanic, in all its recondite phases, with the ancient Gothic, and its cognates, taking in very wide accessions from the Latin, the Gallic, and other languages of southern
Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846
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some recondite problem in historiography
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It does exhibit sedulous authorial research and reveling in recondite lore - some of it in various untranslated Afghan languages, though these passages are hardly more annoying than those in English.
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Derrida burst on to the world stage in the 1960s with his recondite theory known as deconstruction.
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It's never helped me with the capital of Tajikistan or the definition of "recondite," but apparently it's got the goods on my hang-ups.
Printing: Listen To My Body? I Don't Think So
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The influence of these open-ended images and other recondite forms of cerebral play on courts such as Urbino's has been discussed by Luciano Cheles, among others (Studiolo of Urbino, 82 – 87), and continues into the cinquecento.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Like, the other day, in a social situation, somebody used the word "recondite" in conversation.
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I have known non-intellectual teachers and writers with a marvelous capacity for getting recondite points across to the most obtuse student or reader.
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Bruce was a lively and fascinating speaker, with a huge fund of anecdotes and recondite facts.
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It served as a kind of recondite, East Village version of camp, classical Hollywood.
Advocate.com Daily News
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“Myers,” presumably speaking through the medium, produced a stream of poetic, recondite associations from the word Lethe that meant nothing to the medium or the experimenter.
Experiencing the Next World Now
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Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages.
Languagehat.com
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Whether in science, philosophy, or religion, the use of recondite terminology has a tendency to impede the dissemination of useful concepts and theories.
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Eyre's down-to-earth style was well suited to the exploration of these recondite matters.
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But if you dress up the idea in a forbidding vocabulary, full of neologisms and recondite references to philosophy, then you may have a prescription for academic stardom.
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Let's show the world that we can be lucid and enthusiastic explainers of recondite ideas, not merely the flamboyant show-offs that unfair stereotypes so often paint us to be.
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Feeling uncertain of his understanding of the mathematical concepts, he asked senior mathematicians to test his grasp of the more recondite concepts.
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She metamorphosed into a highly intelligent woman who engaged the General on recondite matters of French history and culture.
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Hansen uses short sentences and has a knack for clarifying opaque and recondite ideas.
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For a popular treatment of the somewhat recondite underpinnings of this thesis, see R.
The Language Monitor
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Elizabethan and Jacobian periods is particularly full; and this is as it should be; for at no time was our language more equally removed from conventionalism and commonplace, or so fitted to refine strength of passion with recondite thought and airy courtliness of phrase.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860
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Meanwhile, the presence of Pietro d'Abano80 and Hippocrates reflects a special interest at Urbino in recondite principles of astrobiological medicine and its capacity to temper the constitutions of individuals.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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The Buddha's monks were not to speculate about the future or the past, or about such recondite questions as the beginning or end of the world.
