abstrusely

In the second sense, "obscurantism" denotes making knowledge abstrusely difficult to grasp.

Everything, in fact, could be either simply or abstrusely explained, except the unusual increase in the cold flow.

Mitchell is neither abstrusely arch nor a wizard of scenic dislocation.

He says, plainly and abstrusely, that he's "happy."

"Well, everyone has to try . . ." Mummy said abstrusely.

"The Wire" began its second season on HBO last night the way it began its first year: abstrusely.

After a couple of days the answer would come, abstrusely worried in non-rhyming hexameters: 'Fortunate is the man who honours his mother and keeps off animal fats.'

This palmetto "nursery," visibly rusting, refers perhaps too abstrusely to simultaneous growth and decay, but the sight of a 26-foot-tall iron tree in a hot field has its own startling appeal.

But surely no ancient builder wrote as abstrusely as the New York-based theorist and architect Steven Holl does in "Parallax" (Princeton Architectural Press, $40) about his recent works.

An abstrusely worded two-sentence notice scheduled to appear next week in the city's official publication, the City Record, invites trash haulers and the operators of landfills and incinerators to an informational meeting on Oct. 19.

At times experimental with instrumental song intros and abstrusely minimalist with their lyrics, French duo Miss Kittin & The Hacker would do Franz Kline proud with their knack for scrumptious, slaptastic tunes ideal for the BDSM scene.

A more cerebral environment is to be found at Sean Kelly, where the Conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth has installed three paintings by Rene Magritte in a darkly painted room, abstrusely titling the results "The Essence of Rhetoric Is in Allegory" (in French).

Only lately, since I have been able to look things up in books, have I begun to unscramble the anthology of quotations that Matern had cooked up: he mixed liturgical texts, the phenomenology of a stocking-cap, and abstrusely secular lyrical poetry into a stew seasoned with the cheapest gin.