abstruse

As Proust's text indicates, it was a commonplace that Mallarme expressed his ideas clearly in speech and abstrusely in writing (Proust 63).

7) This line would be quoted by Karl Wolfskehl in his essay in the opening volume of the Jabrbuch for die geistige Bewegung, where he longwindedly and abstrusely traces the history of the Blatter so as to envision the future that would be realized by the secret Germany.

The empty phrases concerning the State's margin of appreciation -repeated in the Court's judgments for too long already- are unnecessary circumlocutions, serving only to indicate abstrusely that the States may do anything the Court does not consider incompatible with human rights.

Unfortunately Mugabe who symbolizes the political leadership, was not ready to read his political obsequies or was he just abstrusely stubborn to make a paradigm shift.

Simple puzzles turn up on occasion and briefly impede progress, but more often turn out to be abstrusely complex.