Both Uses of
abstruse
in
Lost Horizon
- Conway, during a rapid glance at some of the shelves, found much to astonish him; the world's best literature was there, it seemed, as well as a great deal of abstruse and curious stuff that he could not appraise.†
Chpt 5abstruse = difficult to understand; or not known by the great majority of people
- He was like a mathematician with an abstruse problem—worrying over it, but worrying very calmly and impersonally.†
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