Sample Sentences for
recondite
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    ...where he had spent his brightest years in recondite pursuits,  (source)
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    A pair of actors trapped in a recondite play with no hint of plot or narrative.†  (source)
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    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)
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    But still another inquiry remains; one often agitated by the more recondite Nantucketers.†  (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)
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    The savor was slender, elusive, and recondite, a ghostly bouquet that haunted rather than lived on the tongue.†  (source)
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    He may have some deep-seated recondite complaint.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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