Their work is interesting and esoteric and ideologically exclusionary, although we seem to be in a time of revision and eclecticism. |
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It seems a trifle self-indulgent to enjoy such esoteric pleasure in the midst of so much want. |
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When so few people have been encouraged to learn trades, the special skills involved in them become esoteric. |
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But leaving aside esoteric question of etiquette all best wishes for future happiness! |
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He remained committed to exploring his penchant for mordant wit, the celebration of the esoteric, the glorification of all things absurd. |
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When you leave the pure playback domain, all the footage is uncompressed and captured from some esoteric device. |
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To those on a quest for spiritual evolution or transformation, they promise entry into an esoteric world of ancient mystical wisdom. |
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Many scholars have, in fact, described New Age ideas as a revival of esoteric and mystical religion traditions rooted in humanity's ancient past. |
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His interests were wide and many but by the turn of the century his main interests were esoteric, mystical, and occult. |
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Even the most bookish work that seems esoteric on the written page can be transformed by actors into the cadences of characters and themes. |
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It means that you live in one place, but exist in another esoteric, imaginary plane, unshackled by fact or memory. |
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For many people thinking is a very esoteric concept and some people would see a conference about thinking as intellectual navel-gazing. |
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And the esoteric world of European neo-Marxist theorizing has replaced the ballrooms and summer homes of Manhattan high society. |
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Finally, one of the more esoteric chemical markers to be found in ice cores is sodium. |
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It also covers the more esoteric subjects of monochromatic observing and spectrohelioscopes. |
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They concentrated on simple, direct promises to voters, while the other parties squabbled over more esoteric issues like EU expansion. |
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However, after exciting and esoteric art cabaret nights, they made steps to expand their remit and take on a more professional outlook. |
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Among the Lao the officiant is usually an ex-monk who has attained considerable esoteric knowledge of the ritual language of the ceremony. |
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The groundwork laid out by Jupiter in 2000, Cave In worms further into the dark underbelly of esoteric Pink Floyd-esque rock operatics. |
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Spectators at Highland Games will also have seen more esoteric styles such as catch-as-catch-can. |
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The nobility, sublimity, depth, pathos and exuberance of his concerts remain esoteric and reveal his scholarship, authority and authenticity. |
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By the turn of the century, the royalist faction came to fear synarchy, whose influence had spread beyond esoteric groups. |
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Such clever allusions in the original title must have been deemed too esoteric for potential buyers. |
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But mostly, that which is most personal is most common, not most subjective, esoteric, incommunicable and unique. |
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The mandala, with its divine and esoteric connotations, has been a key construct in temple building since Vedic times. |
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Then you saw books on mysticism, herbal potions, crystal healing and a myriad of other esoteric topics. |
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Today, the 23-year-old second dan will be competing with the best in the world in one of the most esoteric martial arts on the planet. |
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If you've never seen the film and have a taste for esoteric dark comedies, give this one a spin. |
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You really have to wonder how a show with humor this esoteric, this geeky, made it to the air at all. |
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This a very convenient allegory for the evolution from gnosticism to orthodoxy and the ensuing death of esoteric gnostic traditions. |
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Usually, they are not plumbers or electricians and consequently lack the esoteric knowledge common to those trades. |
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It is true that in esoteric matters, it is exceedingly difficult to decide which side is right. |
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Every illicit drug now has its own subculture, with its own esoteric knowledge, its own rituals and its own argot. |
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He taught mathematics not as some esoteric mystery, but as practical common sense. |
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Butler's report will be full of esoteric recommendations about working practices inside government. |
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According to the esoteric tradition humanity is not the pinnacle of evolution on this planet. |
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He is fond of pointing out how esoteric this debate is to the wider public. |
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The Left makes incredibly esoteric distinctions based on the motives of the social planners doing the killing. |
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Well in fact that esoteric knowledge is quite an important theme in conspiracy theories. |
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While much of the text would be too esoteric for all but the art-history scholar, it does raise broader questions. |
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Why did what was formerly seen as an esoteric cultural theory go from the margins of academia to the mainstream of public debate? |
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The poems show his erudition to be wide, his historical knowledge sometimes esoteric. |
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Deep, hidden or esoteric meanings of the text are rejected in favour of its plain meaning. |
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Smell, our seemingly most primitive sense, is often linked to spiritual or esoteric ideas. |
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His adored father was a more or less failed Swiss pastor, a melancholic man of esoteric interests. |
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Although the text is more accessible, it also loses its mysterious and esoteric qualities. |
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Gibson's comments on the use of non-standard or esoteric English are particularly wise. |
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This fight is not based on some esoteric theoretical threat like the domino theory. |
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They believed also in esoteric meanings accessible only to the powerful elite, as opposed to exoteric doctrine suitable for the masses. |
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He then embarked on intensive study, first of the philosophy of Maimonides, then of the esoteric Kabbala, which was rather more to his taste. |
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Some people feel modern dance is difficult to follow, somewhat abstract or esoteric. |
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Josh's mind boggled in the futile effort to penetrate the abstruse complexity of an esoteric form of thinking that was altogether foreign to him. |
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Massive string swells and jazzy electric piano stabs immediately bring the more esoteric work of Carl Craig and Derrick May to mind. |
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The esoteric nature of these claims is expressed through their own pertinent whakapapa link. |
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Kashmir's contribution to the Indian thought has been of immense artistic, esoteric and aesthetic value. |
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And if the model of critical practice sounds urbane, recondite and not a little esoteric, it need not be dull. |
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I just can't bear to read the detailed analysis, let alone the actual report, of an enquiry into a very narrow and arguably esoteric event. |
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Varmint hunters and long-range target shooters know all too well the esoteric science of wind doping. |
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In spite of its length and occasional flights of fancy, it has a rewardingly esoteric heart. |
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Deupree, by contrast, has an exceptional ear for creating melodies and esoteric atmospherics. |
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It is not enough for a few savants to be privy to esoteric mathematical knowledge for that knowledge to be influential in a wider culture. |
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There can be few other industries in the land whose billions are so dependent on the say-so of such an esoteric and anonymous few. |
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Individual breweries add such esoteric ingredients as coriander, thyme, lemongrass, figs, bananas or elderberries to give their products a unique flavour. |
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This has led him to an interest in the esoteric world of art restoration. |
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Next to kyudo, iaido is probably the most esoteric martial art form. |
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Although they have become shorter, going still means three days of esoteric debate interrupted only by ritual incantation, expensive coffee, and German food. |
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Now all such esoteric knowledge is regarded as suspect, as somehow unjust. |
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That type of theory, rooted in the tradition of 19th century German Idealism, mystifies freedom by seeing it as an esoteric result of ideas or ideals alone. |
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There is a pill in Tibetan Buddhism that contains a lot of esoteric ingredients, some of which are bodily substances. |
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Suddenly you can hold forth about leading and kerning and other esoteric aspects of typesetting. |
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Dig deeper into exotic and esoteric areas of interest for direction in creative pursuits, especially. |
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Zac talked in a monotonous drone about the hidden treasures of Egypt, the esoteric wisdom that Aristotle stole, or was it Plato, and then the Egyptians forgot everything. |
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I mean, it's no more esoteric or unusual than what anyone else does, but people don't get their knickers in a twist about Mr and Mrs Jones' hanky-panky. |
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Now, lined up in their matching chairs, the three of them look unified, purposeful, like eager schoolkids taking turns to explain some esoteric science project. |
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None the less, it is a step forward and will stimulate debate about the emergence of neurology from the closet of esoteric and untreatable syndromes. |
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It is a collection of sayings of Jesus, shorn of most narrative setting, and often Gnostic in feel, presenting Jesus as a teacher of esoteric wisdom. |
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Rather than appearing as esoteric ideas or arbitrary constructs, the disciplines of modern Biblicists are seen as logical, sensible, even exciting. |
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His increasingly esoteric songs suggest that the musical cocoon he's been spinning around himself for a decade deflects his sight inward again and again. |
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Many people would agree with the Maharishi's political analysis, but they might have some issues with some of the more esoteric aspects of his teachings. |
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Ted is a quirky guy that loves esoteric topics like Teddy Roosevelt trivia and the history of belts. |
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On research trips to the States, Donoghue came across houses which incorporated the same core technologies as the Dunblane show house but also had more esoteric features. |
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He transformed the esoteric realm of quantum physics, and along the way discovered anti-matter by applying the dictum that mathematical beauty is a guide to truth. |
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In the early days it was really about the 12-minute esoteric psychedelic acid rock jam thing, and I've kind of returned to that format because it's just natural for me. |
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They converted their esoteric post-punk tastes into instant pop thrills. |
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Meanwhile, Peter Murphy gets all mystic and esoteric, his impenetrable lyrics outweirding the weird efforts of his previous band. |
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Yet one must be careful not to come to the conclusion that Akiva used only esoteric ways of interpreting the Torah. |
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Now he feels a connection between his own closeted, esoteric sufferings and strivings and those of the poor urban working people all around him. |
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And the permanent exhibit area offers a filk performance on a small stage so that neophytes can sample more esoteric interests. |
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The story of the original manuscripts of the esoteric treatises is described by Strabo in his Geography and Plutarch in his Parallel Lives. |
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Further, the causes are not esoteric and uncontrollable, but can be explained in terms of familiar engineering principles. |
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Wicca is also a form of Western esotericism, and more specifically a part of the esoteric current known as occultism. |
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Concern arose that academics were taking over Austen criticism and that it was becoming increasingly esoteric, a debate that has continued since. |
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It set off a tsunami of debate among the more esoteric critics, who either loved it or hated it but could not ignore it. |
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These texts concern the distinctions between exoteric and acroamatic, and between exoteric and esoteric writing. |
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They include well-known delicacies such as Roquefort cheese and Parma ham, but also number more esoteric entries like Newcastle Brown Ale. |
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They include blood oaths, the esoteric practice of Obeah, Ananse Spider trickster tales, day names, and a strong belief in transmigration. |
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The illustrations are very useful for understanding esoteric climate data, such as isotopic records and speleothem values. |
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Practically, the availability of QDs in a colloidally dispersed form will help demystify these somewhat esoteric materials. |
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Hermetic Qabalah is a Western esoteric, occult and mystical tradition. |
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In 396, he wiped out the last remnants of the Mysteries at Eleusis in Attica, ending a tradition of esoteric religious ceremonies that had lasted since the Bronze Age. |
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The Maimonidean or Averroist distinction between exoteric and esoteric truths dovetails with the charge of Machiavellianism when the esoteric view is identified as atheism. |
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Finally Rome, and the esoteric charisma of Allegri's Miserere. |
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Relatively straightforward statements and recognizable accoutrements of spiritual striving were accompanied by less categorizable, more esoteric elements. |
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Religious or mythological cosmology is a body of beliefs based on mythological, religious, and esoteric literature and traditions of creation and eschatology. |
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The motif of a prophet, theurgist, or holy man seeking an immortal, often by ascending to heaven, in order to receive esoteric knowledge is one common in late antiquity. |
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After all, any kind of Space biology investigation could seem as if it represents an unusual, even esoteric, activity, far removed from mainstream research concerns. |
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On the Vanity of Magic or The Nullity of Magic is a debunking of esoteric claims in Bacon's time, showing that they could be explained by natural phenomena. |
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The courtier was a jaunty fellow, attuned to the esoteric court gossip and attentive to the least beneficial wind of favor blowing from the throne. |
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The goddess is viewed as the heart of the most esoteric Saiva traditions. |
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Esoteric astrology has its roots in the philosophy of hylozoism, which asserts that life and matter are inseparable. |
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In the Western Esoteric tradition, Andrew is associated with the astrological sign of Virgo. |
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