Sentences with phrase «by esoteric»

True professionals are characterized by their altruism and by their esoteric but socially useful expertise.

And that practice can not be remedied by esoteric science, but rather by a vigilant citizenship which talks common sense rejoinders to the common man.

While «Art and Alchemy,» the central exhibition at the 1986 Venice Biennale, was a self - serving mess, it went even further in suggesting the degree to which 20th - century artists have been attracted by esoteric concerns.

As put by the artist himself: «I do believe, in at least a metaphoric level, that the union of human and machine, represented best by smart phone addiction, embodies the «Anti- Christ» as believed in by esoteric societies as a figure that is as crucial to the present epoch, the Aquarian age, as Christ was to the past era, the age of Pisces.»

«He was fascinated by esoteric philosophies, paranormal phenomena and altered realities.

The difference was small — happening only once in every 500 decays — and obscure even by the esoteric standards of particle physics.

The author's thesis is this: dialogical encounter with Buddhist tradition — in this case illustrated by the esoteric teachings of Kukai — and Western ecological models of reality emerging in the natural sciences and Christian process theology, may energize an already evolving global vision.

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Now, enthusiasts line up to hoard rarities like the annual spring release of Halifax's Garrison Spruce Beer; esoteric and earthy Italian imports like Panil; and, most famously, Westvleteren XII, a Belgian ale brewed by Trappist monks that sold out in minutes when it hit 16 Ontario liquor stores at a cost of $ 80 per six - pack last December.

At Bear, Stearns & Co., Mr. Abbott served as a Vice President in Financial Analytics & Structured Transactions (F.A.S.T) where he structured and reverse engineered complex CDO transactions, secured by a wide range of debt products, including high yield bonds, senior secured leverage loans, trust preferred bank loans, RMBS as well as other esoteric receivables.

The subject matter was beyond esoteric but I was quite impressed by how game she was.

Constructed by a nerdy - sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive.

Some joke that straight razor shaving is an esoteric art practiced only by mentally unstable people with a death wish, and a new brand on the market expands on this idea.

Central banks initiating «short volatility positions» via QE have dampened long - term sovereign bond yields, which crowded out private capital and induced investors to «find something else to do» by buying more esoteric assets

Chris Christie's attack on Rand Paul - where Christie complained about piddling «esoteric» libertarian concerns voiced by people who were too cowardly to face «the widows and the orphans» of 9/11 - reminded me of something, but I couldn't put my finger on it.

I feel your narrative theology is too esoteric and is rebuffed by Old fashioned «thus saith the Lord» also I could use 98 % of what you wrote to support my position!

The historical experience of the technocracy by the people is not esoteric and abstract knowledge, but it is concrete and bodily experience of the people, individually and collectively.

is asked and answered not in esoteric speculation but through everyday experience illuminated by faith» through our receptivity to the world around us, through our bodies united with our souls.

In stressing one's own experience of redemption, Zinzendorf instrumentalized the faith by disconnecting God as He is in Himself, a concern too esoteric to be of practical consequence, from Christ the Savior upon whom our redemption rests.

A man of noble birth, representing the power of Rome, endowed with authority over life and death, confronted by a barbarous colonial of no name or estate, a slave of the empire, beaten, robed in purple, crowned with thorns, insanely invoking an otherworldly kingdom and some esoteric truth, unaware of either his absurdity or his judge's eminence.

The mystical, metaphysical, esoteric, and symbolical dimensions of our faith are too little known by many, and yet are the very things so many hunger for.»

And if anyone is afraid that he is in for some kind of esoteric rigmarole, may I try to alleviate his fears by remarking that the lecturers are all children of the twentieth century as much as they are professing Christians, alive to the astounding advances of contemporary science and technology, alive also to the deep — seated moral and cultural skepticism which has developed side by side with an increasing moral passion and sensitivity.

If the content of a faith is not checked by some externally objective evaluations, it can easily become too esoteric.

That didn't come to much: the Chippewa were resettled by the government shortly afterwards, and, in any case, it is difficult to imagine those theologically rigorous Lutheran immigrants» insistent at all times that the distinction between law and gospel be strictly maintained» having much success in proselytizing efforts among a people to whom the simplest expressions of Christian doctrine would have seemed quite esoteric.

not every book written by man nor every movie to be popped out of Hollywood for me to find some esoteric spiritual meaning imbedded within).

The Shingon (Ch., chen - yen or «truth word») «esoteric» (Jpn., mikky or «secret teaching») transmission established in Japan by Kukai in the ninth century particularly embraces these elements.5 His Buddhist environmental paradigm is summarized in the first stanza of a two - stanza poem Kukai wrote in Chinese in Attaining Enlightenment in This Very Body (Sokushin jobutsu gi).

But in exoteric Buddhist teaching and esoteric Buddhist tantra prior to Hui - kuo and Kukai, the Dharmakaya is ultimate reality, beyond names and forms, utterly beyond verbal capture by doctrines, while yet the foundational source of all Buddhist thought and practice.

The esoteric nature of such terms preserves the clergy's teaching authority — a second value held by traditionalists.

The Jewish esoteric tradition, by its own account, goes back at least to Moses, if not to Abraham.

Another way to escape from history is to follow the gnostic path of dreaming up some radically other world, to which we «essentially» belong by virtue of an esoteric knowledge or «gnosis,» membership in which therefore keeps us from having to dwell fully within the messiness of historical existence.

«Cultic worship» is a practice performed by a person empowered by the deity to serve as intermediary between human beings and divine powers by presiding over an esoteric ritual (usually a sacrifice) which evokes an appearance of divine power for the benefit of the worshiper.

«7 This distinction between an esoteric form of truth accessible to all, and an esoteric form reserved for philosophers was again contested by the radical theologians of the time.

Even such a subject as church history, often labeled esoteric and arcane by nonspecialists, can be applied to the pastoral ministry of the church.

My case here has been that conservative jurisprudence can take a gentle turn, with steps not the least esoteric, not the least encumbered by foggy abstractions.

Yes, there is a lot of abstract, esoteric speculation going on there about the nature of God, but if we believe we are people made in the image of God, and especially if we also believe we are called to incarnate that image to the world, then that incarnated life will be, or at least should be, defined by the life of the God we claim to image.

Many collectors graduate to vintage items and more esoteric memorabilia, such as company lapel pins, corporate awards, and buttons and uniforms worn by serving crews.

Maharishi schools follow the educational methods of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, guru of the Transcendental Meditation movement, while Steiner education is based on an esoteric / occultist movement called Anthroposophy, founded by Austrian mystic Rudolf Steiner (Holistic unit will «tarnish» Aberdeen University reputation, 29 April 2012).

Einstein's triumphs were guided not by strange new experiments but by rigorous logic, not by the most esoteric questions of the day but by the most basic ones.

By 1967 he had become a self - styled esoteric teacher in Haight - Ashbury - era San Francisco, delivering weekly lectures to a group of mostly younger followers and cohabitants.

This idea might be considered esoteric were it not for the fact that there are reasons to think that just such a hierarchical disintegration by a very large comet had occurred within the past 20 - 30 kyr, the largest remnant being Comet Encke.

What was once an esoteric technical field, pursued by most of us for its intellectual beauty and engineering adventure, is now at the forefront of the U.S. economy, our social interactions, and foreign policy.

It may sound like a rather esoteric choice, but to Marder it is a way to work out the more general rules by which the nervous system in different animals produce rhythmic behaviours including breathing, walking and swimming.

Written by two legendary Stanford design innovators, DYL aims to apply the principles of design (structure, organization, analytical problem - solving) to the esoteric question we're all asking — how should we live?

Yoga is a thousand year old tradition of philosophy complete with many hundreds of years of esoteric magic and a concoction of health - related practices, both produced and influenced by colonial politics and globalisation.

Traditionally, Tibetan Yoga has been shrouded in secrecy, explains Baker, and marked by fantastical stories of yogis in the mountains who keep their naked bodies warm through esoteric breathing practices or who can jump, contort midair into shapes like Lotus Pose, and land in seated meditation.

containing the essentials of how to safely sequence a vinyasa class, and takes this knowledge further by giving you the insights necessary to sequence in accord with the more esoteric and energetic principles that fuel yoga's transformational power.

By far the most esoteric tip of them all, but one I quite love.

While it is true that most people who are highly intuitive express an interest in the esoteric, that doesn't make intuition spiritual by nature.

With arbitrary, esoteric puzzles and a wildly inconsistent tone exacerbated by technical issues, I found it hard to get sucked into the game's atmosphere.

The film is inspired by Roland Barthes's 1977 exegesis The Lover's Discourse: Fragments, a clinical examination of love that's comprised of quotes and musings from a medley of canonical and esoteric writers.

While the plotline of Raw Edge has its esoteric moments, the film is brought down to earth by the perfunctory direction of John Sherwood.