The Pythagorean theorem has attracted interest outside mathematics as a symbol of mathematical abstruseness, mystique, or intellectual power; popular references in literature, plays, musicals, songs, stamps and cartoons abound.
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Dennis Harvey, for Los Angeles-based magazine " Variety ", wrote " [ The film's ] spiritual abstruseness and the script's myriad other ambiguities might infuriate in a film less ingeniously designed on more tangible fronts.
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The last charter revision, those who worked on it are quick to point out, took more than two years, consumed several millions of dollars and grappled with issues of such abstruseness that many who served on the commission can barely remember what they were.
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The magazine s editorial perspective strives to bridge scholarly writing and popular accessibility by preserving an attitude of intellectual rigor without abstruseness or academic jargon . " The Point ", according to its statement of purpose, is for anybody who is frustrated with the intellectual poverty of the majority of today's journalism and public discourse .
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Whatever the outcome, his story serves as a useful device for describing the increasing abstractness of contemporary finances, where markets derive from markets that in turn derive from derived markets . ( Some passages of " The Predictors " read like Greek in their abstruseness, although Bass rarely uses terminology without coming back to it and defining it further along .)
