the truly great scholar becomes as one with his material, however abstruse, however, recondite

Thousands of pages of recondite examination of fine points of doctrine for the membership.

it was an extremely odd moment to raise a recondite historical discussion

technically recondite art films

Moving beyond these recondite readings from the Romney common-touch barometer

though I have no interest in being recondite for its own sake, I also have no gift for simplicity

It was a hermetic text, brimming with recondite content and promising recondite meanings that I couldn’t quite get to then.

McLuhan’s books are painful, not because his jokes are overly recondite, but because they mistake chumminess and condescension for making common cause with their audience