How to Use recondite in a Sentence

recondite

adjective
  • 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
  • Then, as now, the anecdotes shared among women cut through the recondite rhetoric of social theory.
    Moira Donegan, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2017
  • Throughout, the syntax is punchy and slangy, while the diction often grows brazenly recondite.
    Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • And thus began an unexpected, yearlong tour through this odd, stylish, recondite world.
    Ted Scheinman, The Atlantic, 22 July 2017
  • 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
  • Muldoon’s own work is witty, full of wordplay, often recondite.
    Charles Finch, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • By all accounts, Mr. Wilson was erudite about the recondite, a prolific author of some 60 books on topics ranging from angels to pirate utopias and all manner of renegade religions.
    New York Times, 11 June 2022
  • The answer, the recondite answer, is that the best decisions are always born out of full consideration of the ghastly alternatives: only fools look solely at the most desirable ones.
    Anthony McCarten, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • If the original postmodernists had been mandarins engaged in recondite philosophical debates, the applied postmodernists were something more like political entrepreneurs.
    Park MacDougald, Washington Examiner, 17 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Jenkins uses abstruse concepts about personal growth, esoteric philosophy, and recondite musings to separate competition from sport.
    Jenna Stocker, National Review, 24 Mar. 2022

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