How to Use recondite in a Sentence

recondite

adjective
  • Then, as now, the anecdotes shared among women cut through the recondite rhetoric of social theory.
    — Moira Donegan, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2017
  • Muldoon’s own work is witty, full of wordplay, often recondite.
    — Charles Finch, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Throughout, the syntax is punchy and slangy, while the diction often grows brazenly recondite.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
  • And thus began an unexpected, yearlong tour through this odd, stylish, recondite world.
    — Ted Scheinman, The Atlantic, 22 July 2017
  • Any program that did would be too recondite to stay on the air, the work of David Lynch being a glorious exception.
    — Christian Lorentzen, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
  • Like other technology conceived for recondite purpose but found to have broad application, the air around the blockchain is thick with analogy and metaphor.
    — Stephen Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 June 2018
  • Her methods might at first glance seem forbiddingly recondite, but the effect of her music is visceral and immediate.
    — Matthew Aucoin, The New York Review of Books, 7 Dec. 2019
  • There are more recondite practices, such as classical and biblical names (Sophocles’ and Jesus’), but this set is the basics.
    — John E. McIntyre, baltimoresun.com, 6 June 2018
  • Whole dissertations could be — and in all likelihood have been — written on the recondite vocabulary that surrounds Jewish bagelry.
    — New York Times, 17 Dec. 2021
  • He was committed to the most recondite 20th-century scores, but also willing to lead old favorites, with fireworks, in Central Park.
    — Michael Cooper, New York Times, 31 May 2017
  • Dense, challenging, aphoristic and swarming with recondite allusions and puns, these novels display an authoritative grasp of a breathtaking range of subjects.
    — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
  • This includes courses such as the notoriously recondite organic chemistry as well as biology, general chemistry, and physics.
    — Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • For students drowning in recondite texts about feminism, media and Marxism, Kruger’s work cut through the theoretical verbiage with razor-sharp epigrams.
    — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Jenkins uses abstruse concepts about personal growth, esoteric philosophy, and recondite musings to separate competition from sport.
    — Jenna Stocker, National Review, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Projecting the effect of sea-level rise on a specific location typically involves recondite computer models and calculations; Burrito Justice was just a fascinated hobbyist, futzing around on his laptop in his backyard.
    — Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2017

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