All 4 Uses of
abstruse
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- He could quote things at great length (there was no way for them to know whether he was really quoting or inventing) and he had an uncanny ability to turn any trifling remark into an abstruse speculation wherein things that were plain as day to common sense became ominous, uncertain, and formidable, like buttresses of ruined cities discovered in deep shadow at the bottom of a blue inland sea.†
Chpt 2abstruse = difficult to understand; or not known by the great majority of people
- Religion declines, and patriotism; law and justice become abstruse questions of metaphysics; the younger generation grows dangerous and irrational, shameless, selfish, anarchistic.†
Chpt 3
- Very abstract, abstruse, or subtle: often used derogatorily of reasoning.†
Chpt 3 *
- As he made his way down the streets assigned to him he could talk with people or fall away into the abstruse speculations of a soul turned inward, whichever he pleased.†
Chpt 5