abstrusely

• “While the history of '00s New York dance-rock tilts toward the Rapture and LCD Soundsystem, the band known abstrusely as !!!”

  The Wall Street Journal: Music With an Exclamation Point

• “Hippocrates had once abstrusely opined that cancer was “best left untreated, since patients live longer that way.””

  Simon & Schuster: The Emperor of All Maladies

• “Especially in time of stress, of war or social unrest, men have felt a certain callousness about the interests of the abstrusely remote scholar.”

  Human Traits and their Social Significance

• “Tablet which, however misconstrued at first as an exposition of the science of divination, was later recognized to have unravelled, on the one hand, the mystery of the Musta_gh_á_th_, and to have abstrusely alluded, on the other, to the nineteen years which must needs elapse between the”

  God Passes By

• “A day's journey by tonga matures acquaintanceships wonderfully," he observed abstrusely.”

  The Bronze Bell

• “Mary Virginia often talked as the alchemists used to write -- cryptically, abstrusely, as if to hide the golden truth from all but the initiate.”

  Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man

• “He contrived to preserve, in the most abstrusely philosophical of these writings, a simplicity and clarity which, although they have not commended him to professional metaphysicians, make his attitude to the problems of metaphysics extremely intelligible.”

  Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work

• “He calculated abstrusely the practicable shortness of the two routes from”

  Beauchamp's Career — Volume 7

• “For myself I have been entirely _idle, _ -- I dare not even say, too abstrusely _occupied; _ for I have merely been _looking_ at the”

  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.

• “This Chapter, which cannot, when it is printed, amount to so little as an hundred pages, will of necessity greatly increase the expense of the work; and every reader who, like myself, is neither prepared nor perhaps calculated for the study of so abstruse a subject so abstrusely treated, will, as I have before hinted, be almost entitled to accuse you of a sort of imposition on him.”

  Biographia Literaria

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