recondite

Example Sentences

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Pierre Boulez — like Bernstein, a composer, though in a more recondite modernist mode — innovated with repertory mixtures and concert formats.

From New York Times

Throughout, the syntax is punchy and slangy, while the diction often grows brazenly recondite.

From Washington Post

In the 1950s and ’60s, Auden hoped he might be regarded as “a minor Atlantic Goethe” even as his poetry grew loose and talky, his diction occasionally recondite.

From Washington Post

The five-foot deepening involved not some recondite engineering challenge; essentially it required moving muck.

From Washington Post

Led by Ara Guzelimian with a steady hand, the festival is Southern California relaxed — T-shirts and shorts, maybe a hoodie at night — but the repertory tends rigorous and recondite.

From New York Times