0 not known or understood by many people: --
an abstruse philosophical essay
Schloss's arguments, at times, become difficult to follow, and even abstruse.
For many practitioners it is easier to envisage massing varied fragments of sound than it is to master the often abstruse mathematics and complex formulae of waveguide synthesis.
His work was abstruse and impenetrable, his demeanor reserved, and his resistance to using the bully pulpit to comment on current economic events unprecedented.
In discussing how fungi played a role in the diet the authors draw attention to their food value in a rather abstruse way.
For that, it must avoid sectarianism and abstruse verbalism.
Written in the mannered style of the culturalstudies school, it lacks clarity and sometimes descends into the abstruse.
Its abstruse philosophical difficulties and its linguistic complexities are easily converted into a widely accessible form, with no need for the mediation of commentaries.
Even the direction of abstruse developments in pure mathematics may be conditioned, if not fixed, by current extra-scientific, economic requirements.