obscurantist
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There’s a 2022 documentary called “Lynch/Oz” that ruminates on the ties between the befuddling obscurantist and the eternal blockbuster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
The course instructor, Daniel Gabriel, a young poet, found her student verse, as he told Spiegelman, “overwritten, obscurantist and difficult.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
Even his most devoted followers sometimes wonder whether his obscurantist tweets are serious or are made in jest.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2022
"We, lawyers, do not want a communitarian and obscurantist judiciary," they wrote in the French publication Marianne.
From Reuters ● Mar. 2, 2022
Whether the determination to taboo research into them, and to denounce their examination as of perilous moral consequence, is scientific, or is obscurantist, every one may decide for himself.
From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Andrew Lang
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