At times, the music sounds like extremely abstruse cocktail piano.
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But the origin of the term is much more abstruse.
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Also, faith that all the abstruse wanderings will eventually get someplace.
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Her routines with Mike Nichols were sexy and brainy, sometimes abstruse.
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His scientific papers often have literary titles that belie their abstruse content.
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These abstruse policy views make Schultz like nearly all other American billionaires.
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It embraces the abstruse and the transparent, often in the same work.
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Databricks, born of abstruse computer science, helps clients deploy open-source tools effectively.
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Such work might seem abstruse to outsiders, but uses abound, from cosmology to cryptography.
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Despite the at times abstruse content, The Image Book's sound is another matter altogether.
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No matter how politically touchy or intellectually abstruse the topic, the crowd develops consensus.
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He thus demonstrates that being a successful philosopher-painter doesn't require abstruse philosophical concepts.
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This definition seems abstruse, but there is a much simpler way to think about it.
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Donald J. Trump says the abstruse Republican delegate system distorts the will of the people.
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Her series of small and abstruse domestic scenes documents discrete moments unfolding before our eyes.
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Deep learning employs pieces of software called artificial neural networks to fossick out otherwise-abstruse patterns.
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Some of his arguments can be abstruse, and rarely does he give interpretations of individual pictures.
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Yet it's possible designers may not be as willfully abstruse to the moment as they seem.
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Such memorable analogies abound in this inviting guide to an art form often seen as abstruse.
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Haeg mentions the Scandinavian propensity for this kind of coziness, exemplified in abstruse Danish concepts like hygge.
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That finding might seem abstruse but is important for discussions of banning the shoe, Dr. Kram says.
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Not only was the exhibition abstruse, it had committed the cardinal sin of omitting Greek artists and curators.
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I just wanted to make experimental, abstract, esoteric, abstruse art, game-changing transcendent work of viscera, and frisson.
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Second, his poetry is sometimes abstruse, despite his protestations that they are "so simple and natural to me".
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Full of complicated tracking shots, slow pacing and abstruse references, his films address only the most committed viewers.
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The of stillness of her outlines and their use of abstruse symbols recall the artwork of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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I am legitimately abstruse sometimes, but I'm always pushing it as far as I am towards being digested.
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Bolshevism was a mind-set, an idiosyncratic culture with an intolerant paranoid wordview obsessed with abstruse Marxist ideology.
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An abstruse techno-capitalist philosophy seems to have little in common with the herrenvolk hatred of the KKK.
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Most ordinary people, and most powerful people, don't care about abstruse theoretical arguments against back doors and weakened security.
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The challenge is to focus, to simplify things and explain what is a very technical, abstruse set of issues.
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The notion of social performance used to be quite abstruse, trapped within the discourse of academics like Judith Butler.
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Some of Professor Keller's conclusions may seem deceptively simple, given the abstruse mathematical equations he constructed to reach them.
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Angela Davis, who also studied with Adorno, was Marcuse's protege, and some New Left activists cited Marcuse's abstruse works.
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The film opens with an abstruse microscopic shot of a red liquid compound with strange black specks in it.
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Even if she is Rei Kawakubo, the famously abstruse and oracular 74-year-old founder of Comme des Garçons.
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Dr. Peterson prefers to couch this idea in abstruse language, but this is a crucial aspect of his appeal.
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This sounds abstruse, I know, and too close to the new clichés of basketball as tank-topped free jazz.
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Importantly, at bottom these cases are about property — not complex constitutional jurisprudence or abstruse concepts like the public trust doctrine.
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This sounds abstruse: but getting it right has an effect of lowering inflation by half a percentage point or so.
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The other clue was a little more abstruse, but he suggests Patriots owner Robert Kraft could be interested in Colin.
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Ben Brantley found the play abstruse; however, he wrote, "the precise calibration of the physical production holds your attention." theshed.org
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Ben Brantley found the play abstruse, however, he wrote, "the precise calibration of the physical production holds your attention."theshed.org
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The tunes he writes seem to grow out of that sensitivity: They have the abstruse allure of non-narrative cinema.
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Mr. Briggs is delicate, courteous, sentimental; his dancing is at once the most eye-pleasing and the most musically abstruse.
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He is correct that theoretical scholarship, which explores foundational questions rather than closely analyzing specific legal rules, is often too abstruse.
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The making of art — popular or fine, abstruse or accessible, sacred or profane — is one of the glories of our species.
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And throughout, Foucault's often maddeningly abstruse prose functions as a plaything for a skilled actor to mouth with flourish and flair.
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The puns are really good, I think, and run from kinda simple to sorta crunchy, nothing too abstruse or too corny.
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Despite being deeply abstruse and wildly deviating from grammatical conventions "Mafia Business" remains, as of this writing, his most viewed YouTube video.
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It was the sort of abstruse display that reinforced the value of observers who possess expertise in local politics, history and culture.
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While Changes can feel abstruse, it is ultimately a fascinating look at the creative process behind the most fleeting of art forms.
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In conversations around the album's release, he's namedropped 90s cybernetics researchers, obscure medieval instruments, postmodern visual artists, among other even more abstruse references.
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The prog-rock pioneers embraced extravagance: odd instruments and fantastical lyrics, complex compositions and abstruse concept albums, flashy solos and flashier live shows.
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A lot of affect theory is abstruse to the point where you forget that it aims to describe basic facets of everyday reality.
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Scott said his track record was the result of his ability to make sense of the abstruse plan, not favors from inside connections.
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But it's an academic history, so you may find yourself skipping over some abstruse sections to get to the sweet and salty bits.
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Her titles can range from the abstruse to the sinister, as with "7,070,430K of Digital Spit," seen at the Kunsthalle Basel in 2015.
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The battle is abstruse, but the stakes are high: Both sides say the future of the internet depends on getting these rules right.
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Some of the more abstruse passages in the novel made sense to me; others did not, even when I reread them several times.
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Repo rates, by contrast, are seen as sufficiently abstruse for the central bank to decide on its own when it wants to change them.
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The decision "was based on data and traffic" which, while abstruse, suggests no one was really using the feature enough to keep it alive.
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Few mentioned the abstruse charge against Ms Rousseff: that she had fiddled with government accounts to hide the true size of the budget deficit.
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Against long odds, and despite an abstruse structure, in which supercomputers "mine" the currency via mathematical formulas, Bitcoin has become a multibillion-dollar industry.
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Plagued by opaque and ever-shifting regulations and a culturally abstruse way of doing business, American companies fell to a series of local giants.
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All this could be seen as an offshoot of a Cold War mentality in which abstruse pursuits were propped up with scientific-sounding language.
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Yet there was nothing dreamy or abstruse about him, especially if you were the guy past whom the ball flew, beyond your grunting reach.
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It was, as you might imagine, stridently uncommercial and creatively oriented—a space for people who wanted their music commentary abstruse, thoughtful, and slow.
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A diverse sampler of the popular and the abstruse, the festival may be middle-aged, but it remains surprising, if at times reliably exasperating.
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In retrospect, none of the entries were abstruse or foreign, and the tough clues were just fabulous jokes that flew over my head (whoosh!).
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In retrospect, none of the entries were abstruse or foreign, and the tough clues were just fabulous jokes that flew over my head (whoosh!).
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Whatever the intent, the painting revels in a brazenly abstruse set of pictorial signs whose solidity and invention are the source of its power.
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They have not rebuked Mr Trump personally, instead chiding America for "trade hegemonism" and other abstruse offences that are hard to chant at protest rallies.
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THE details around network neutrality, the principle that internet-service providers (ISPs) must treat all sorts of web traffic equally, can be mind-numbingly abstruse.
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On November 8th India took this abstruse thought experiment into the real world, scrapping two banknotes which made up 86% of all rupees in circulation.
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Probably my favorite thing about the paper is the way it jumps back and forth between practical tips for mile-chasers and abstruse academic jargon.
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The information paradox, as it is known, was no abstruse debate, as Dr. Hawking pointed out from the stage of the Sanders Theater in April.
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The fact is, the vast majority of people who attend it won't care much about the somewhat abstruse issues I dig into in this post.
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So we have the proliferation of funds with names intending to suggest ritzy addresses or locales, abstruse theorems and admirable but all-too-rare personal characteristics.
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The self-aggrandizing mission statements, the anxiety meltdowns as the show nears, the abstruse declarations about the purpose of performance art—Blanchett mimics all of these.
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Cycling minimalism, paint-splattered harmonies and subtly accruing percussion — it's all part of the Claudia Quintet's abstruse formula, devised by the drummer and composer John Hollenbeck.
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I thought the clue for TAB was outrageous and, personally, I like a weird, abstruse clue for an ordinary entry like ARM once in a while.
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They will be "reading, debating, discovering, and eventually taking action on previously, perhaps, abstruse research or programs to better their health," Hsu said in an email.
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Abstruse constitutional questions have taken centre stage for more than a year as the country prepares to vote in a referendum on constitutional reform on December 4th.
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With teaching as with other complex skills, the route to mastery is not abstruse theory but intense, guided practice grounded in subject-matter knowledge and pedagogical methods.
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It's hard to decode the abstruse list of goods slated for taxation -- hundreds of lines of numbers and arcane technical terms that only an accountant could love.
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The book, called "Simons Living on the Golden Horn" (the title is an abstruse metaphor for not seeing what is in plain sight), became a best-seller.
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His writings, abstruse yet popularizing, have made him an uplifting guru for some and a convenient devil for others—the crucial fact being that he is never ignored.
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He has done this in a breezy, pellucid manner, with a rare talent for explaining abstruse concepts — say, collateralized debt obligations — so that even I can understand them.
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When you're searching for a way to explain very abstruse problems like Middle East peace, it helps to have characters whose own history and personality carry that history.
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Much of the commentary around Brexit focuses on fierce debates about abstruse issues such as budgetary contributions, government benefits for foreign workers, and the future of British trade relations.
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Burnt with matches and cigarettes and marked over with crosses, infinity signs, and other abstruse symbols, these brutalized scraps of paper were, at heart, stark, shrieking claims to existence.
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He tracks Smiley down to a library in Freiburg, where the elderly spy seems to be delving into some abstruse historical puzzle, maybe pertaining to the Holy Roman Empire.
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And as usual she blamed critics who had become so abstruse and against meaning that they were defending films that made a fetish of technique without carrying any meaning.
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Wordplay SUNDAY PUZZLE — I thought this Sunday puzzle provided a good balance of no-brainers and headscratchers, and a theme that was smart and inventive without being too abstruse.
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I also wanted to clue CHASE UTLEY to reference "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," but I guess that's a bit abstruse now that he's not even on the Phillies.
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There's no guarantee of success—no assurance that quantum mechanics really does have something plain and simple at its heart, rather than the abstruse collection of mathematical concepts used today.
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Even one instance where a cutscene wouldn't trigger, causing a main objective to remain inoperable, turned out to only be the result of an abstruse conditional, reproduced two decades later.
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For example, programmers frequently write code and control their computers through a bare-bones interface known as the "command line," typing abstruse, text-based commands rather than pointing and clicking.
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He was an innovative and often abstruse theoretician, but he applied his postulates to real-world cases of conflict, cooperation and compromise in planning curriculums, publishing guidebooks and making videos.
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I like using bit vectors and bit shifts and slightly abstruse data structures and that quirky little language feature that isn't widely known but is so useful under these particular circumstances.
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The mainstream thumbnail biography for Stockhausen holds that he started out with vision and ended up with mere grandiosity, making abstruse works for the tight circle of collaborators who surrounded him.
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The film that results is at once panicky and abstruse, and we are left with little more than the delirious shine of McConaughey's eyes and the preacherly rapture in his voice.
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Now we know, and the SDK is so jam-packed with goodies it could turn Cozmo into the Commodore 64 of robotics—a device that changes how people interact with abstruse technology.
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Though it is quite abstruse, the post, by David Ginsberg and Moira Burke, two company researchers, takes readers through a tour of the nuances on whether Facebook can be bad for you.
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They all agreed to study the breeding habits of gray whales — a suitably abstruse topic — and gathered at an appointed date at a place where Professor Arrow would be sure to visit.
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After navigating the bureau's security line, they were assigned a number, 716, which for a slightly abstruse reason means they were the 66th couple who had requested a marriage ceremony that day.
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" In a rally in November, Trump said about George Will, the venerable conservative columnist famous for his ability to quote abstruse writers, "You know he looks smart because he wears those little glasses.
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If Lil Wayne and Andre 3000 are two of the most influential artists of the last half-century, Prince is the purple progenitor, the creator of abstruse shades that Crayola could never copy.
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Also from 2012 (and a bit larger) is a more abstruse but no less engaging portrait of a youngish woman with oversized eyeglasses, an aqua blue swimsuit and a sculpted, coppery-orange coiffure.
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Clearly, spending a few hours at a day club is a fairly attainable goal, depending on capacity, what you're willing to pay and some abstruse concept called gender mix (hence the free passes).
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"I think the velocity of the sell-off was directly related to some abstruse financial instruments that ended up putting a ton of additional pressure on the actual , " the "Mad Money " host said.
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The result is a proliferation of abstruse and socially irrelevant courses, a drop-out rate of about 30% (a shocking waste of human and financial resources) and the lack of skilled workers you mentioned.
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There were titles like "Nuthinduan Waltz" and "Rhodeaoh" and "Pathetique," and those songs with lyrics— four out of the 12—contained somewhat abstruse lyrics that seemed more akin to mythological storytelling than confessional truisms.
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In 2014, Valentino Gantz, a 30-year-old graduate student in biological sciences at the University of California, San Diego, was struggling to finish his thesis — an abstruse project about wing development in flies.
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When an abstruse clue must be translated before one can even ponder its equally arcane answer, which turns out to be something one's never heard of, and it's not even a debut in the puzzle.
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But the weirdest and most cinematic thing about ZCash is not abstruse arguments about relative efficacy: it's the esoteric ceremony with which it had to be initiated, after which occult secrets had to be destroyed.
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The Impressionism of Claude Monet, once derided as incomprehensibly ugly and abstruse, now counts as evidently and simply attractive; the Pop Art of Andy Warhol, originally seen as utterly conceptual and counteraesthetic, now decorates strollers.
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I would often push his wheelchair into his office, and he would ask me to open an abstruse book on quantum theory – the science of atoms, not a subject that had hitherto much interested him.
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These include applications of the more abstruse aspects of quantum mechanics to computation and cryptography, an area where China is a world leader: it was the first country to send a quantum-encrypted message via a satellite.
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She has worked to extend the thought-provoking, often abstruse, sometimes abrasive work of video pioneers like Joan Jonas, Vito Acconci and Nam June Paik into a form that offers more comfort, feels more like a friend.
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From government spying, to citizen journalism, the film seeks to make the often abstruse areas of big data and online behavior into a piece where the outcomes of the internet, some good, others bad, can be seen.
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Also a quick nod to the real life Quentin Blake illustration and reining overlord of the abstruse and esoteric, Ricardo Villalobos, who arrived late but pushed forward with a divisive set which hypnotized and perplexed in equal measure.
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In one memorably abstruse passage he compares the "doubleness" of John Cage's Cartridge Music—which utilizes household objects, like a toothpick or a slinky, as the needles of a phonograph cartridge, generating sound from mundanity—to reading haiku.
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I have told you that various things are sports that are only sports in the most diffuse and generous and abstruse definition of the idea of sports, and are in no way strictly representative of the word's actual definition.
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That the simple possibility of non-genuine music fed to us by an algorithmic platform without our knowledge created a media frenzy speaks to our fundamental fear — a possibly irrational or at least abstruse 21st-century anxiety — of an algorithmic culture.
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"It was even better than I thought it would be," said Iman Khabl, 23, who had come from Edinburgh to see the play and who said she had been thrilled to find references to sometimes abstruse details from all seven books.
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Norah Jones "Flipside" (Blue Note) An insistent four-note riff underlines the newfound self-assertion Ms. Jones sings about in "Flipside"; while she worked with jazz musicians and delves into some abstruse chords, she didn't leave her pop instincts behind. 17.
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If that all sounds abstruse, the consequences are anything but nebulous, opening up fiery disputes that are creating headaches for Prime Minister Theresa May at a time when she is preoccupied with the internal Conservative Party debate over withdrawal from the European Union.
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As the story tends to go, Mr. Wuorinen and Babbitt's cohort seized control of American composition at the height of the Cold War, creating an abstruse musical language that, in a post-Sputnik moment, gained prestige for engrossing specialists while alienating mainstream audiences.
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This is all explained expertly and clearly by Fletcher, an editor at Scientific American, who carries the reader along on a journey of scientific triumphs and bureaucratic nightmares, of abstruse physics and interpersonal politics, all the while conveying the visceral joy of research.
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When he returned, he focussed on his solo work, recording two albums ("Doris," from 2013, and "I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside," from 2015) that were difficult to absorb, not because they were gruesome but because they were stylistically abstruse and emotionally raw.
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Think of As Four's wild runway romps in the still raw Far East Village, replete with pit bulls tinted pink and clothes designed according to abstruse philosophical precepts involving the circle (and that produced a handbag immediately ripped off by a designer of international renown).
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Human music was what the weekend was about; it is what Ms. Kopatchinskaja does, whether the repertory is the most abstruse modernism, or the Moldovan folk tunes she played on Sunday in lively collaboration with her father, a cimbalom player, and her mother, a fiddler.
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Speaking on the phone from Los Angeles, Mr. Shorter waxed plenty abstruse as he discussed the quartet, the opera he's working on with Esperanza Spalding and his reaction upon first hearing "Both Directions at Once," a recently discovered recording by his old friend John Coltrane.
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Like any good Communist soldier, General Cuong pays attention to the details of leaders' abstruse speeches, and he noted that President Xi Jinping of China had referred to his homeland's status as a "great" or "strong power" 26 times in a lengthy address last month.
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In language that glints with ingenuity, never untrue if often abstruse, "Addlands" probes themes of opposition: nature's sustenance and savagery; life's fusion of the sacred and the profane; humans' compulsion to nurture and disfigure an ecosystem; society's transformations, which produce upheaval as well as progress.
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Meanwhile, if you're doing something genuinely interesting, then nobody really knows what the hell is going to work or not yet; and if you aren't, then a dozen others are doing it too, and execution, rather than a little extra abstruse understanding is going to make the difference.
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Add to that, Zuckerberg has arguably boxed himself in, politically speaking, thanks to a series of disingenuous, misleading and abstruse claims and statements made to lawmakers — limiting his room for manoeuvre or for rethinking his approach; let alone being able to genuinely compromise or make honest platform changes.
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I Tell A Fly is artsy, ostentatious and often abstruse, with themes of duality and splashes of political commentary, it arrives at a time when David Lynch's third season of Twin Peaks is America's most lauded show (and comparisons between the two certainly wouldn't be wide of the mark).
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But while the script, which the director wrote with Kieran Fitzgerald, dutifully footnotes the more abstruse references — and explains the mechanics of surveillance with admirable clarity — Mr. Stone remains an old-school humanist, a poet of flesh and blood rather than a deep thinker about technology or politics.
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The Christianity that Erasmus advocated — eschewing the finer points of metaphysics in favor of the humility, simplicity and charity he saw in Jesus of Nazareth — was overpowered by Luther's conviction that the Word of God, revealed in Scripture, speaks unambiguously on all doctrinal matters, no matter how abstruse.
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Unlike many in his field, he avoided the abstruse abstractions of French deconstructionism, but he was also devoted to the work of Harold Bloom, his Yale colleague in the English department, whose book "The Anxiety of Influence" did so much to help Professor Scully's own approach to the course of architectural ideas through the generations.
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An assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam on leave from France's National Center for Scientific Research, Cheng spoke with Quanta Magazine about the mysteries of moonshines, her hopes for string theory, and her improbable path from punk-rock high school dropout to a researcher who explores some of the most abstruse ideas in math and physics.
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"Sound and Fury at the General Meeting," a front-page Linewaiters' Gazette headline read, after the May session ended in a filibuster on the seemingly abstruse subject of the paper's letter-publishing policy—a stalking horse for one of the biggest areas of Co-op contention, the proposal to participate in the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement against Israel.
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Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state — a jolt delivered 11 days before the election in an abstruse letter from the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey — turnout tallies and interviews with dozens of early voters suggest that even a vintage "October surprise" may pack less of a punch than it once did.
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To this day Turing is recognized in his own country and among a broad society of scientists as a pillar of achievement who had fused brilliance and eccentricity, had moved comfortably in the abstruse realms of mathematics and cryptography but awkwardly in social settings, and had been brought low by the hostile society into which he was born.
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While on the surface, the two sites may appear redundant as they both essentially explain memes, the more clinical (and advertiser-friendly) database at KnowYourMeme complements the intentionally abstruse and problematic slang-filled Dramatica pages, just as studying Latin benefits from exposing one's self to both the formal structure of classical and the common parlance of vulgar.
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But in "The Crown," as in real life, the queen's duty as a constitutional monarch — constrained by the Marriage Act's abstruse provisions — turns out to be squarely at odds with her personal longing to keep a heartfelt promise she made to her sister: that Margaret could make her own marital choice if she waited until she reached the age of 25.
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Knapp feels himself a fraud among such men, which might make for a satisfying and funny read about the impossible expectations we all set for ourselves, but instead the author turns abstruse, spending several pages discussing the literary critic Harold Bloom's theory of the anxiety of influence, which even to Knapp "smells of oniony-ripe academic B.O." It is a perfect illustration of getting in one's own way, as if Knapp feels he has to prove his literary bona fides before we'll take him seriously as a writer.
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