Sentences with phrase «as esoteric»

Once dismissed as esoteric, arcane, and a bit beyond the lunatic fringe, meditation the practice of mindfulness are now highly respected and integrated into many fields, including our own.

Granted, computers running ATMs are not exactly as esoteric as, say, a Raspberry Pi, Beagle Board, or any other unconventional computer that have challenged DOOM modders time and again.

What might be described as the esoteric benefits to a non-earning payee spouse of certainty, security and escape from «purse control» of the other spouse, can sometimes, as in this case, form the fundamental basis of an agreement.

All of this helps explain the importance of a concept as esoteric as transparency to the effort to deal with a problem as brutally physical and immediate as climate change.

A prolific notetaker, Marden filled his journals with subject matter as familiar as references to Italian film director Federico Fellini and as esoteric as «looking at an object in nature and running lines around it.»

Materials as esoteric as clothes hangers and CDs become unrecognisable under Keshta's masterful hand.

As esoteric as birdwatching is, it wasn't the subject matter that inspired my low expectations.

As usual, Anderson can't be faulted for lack of ambition: only he would dream of taking on as esoteric and quicksilver brilliant a writer as Pynchon, whose magnificent sentences tend to fall apart in your hands as soon as you try to analyse them.

It's perhaps the height of irony that a battle system as esoteric as the one found in Knights of the Nightmare comes off as overly simplistic once understood.

He was joined by Norman Reedus, who joked about finding the footage just as esoteric as the rest of us.

In the 16th century, based on what struck many of his contemporaries as the esoteric minutiae of celestial motions, Copernicus suggested that Earth was not, in fact, at the center of the universe.

How do you go about getting people interested in something as esoteric as string theory?

Although Jung's thought is often justifiably viewed as esoteric and without adequate ties to clinical experience, its central notion of individuation is indisputably a most important one; and it is primarily because of the significance of Jung's highlighting the process of individuation that I am using his psychology as a base for evaluating Hartshorne's thought.

If healings and miracles are something Bethel has come to expect, there have also been a number of unexpected phenomena that have attracted attention, and led many to write the church off as an esoteric fad.

I do not regard these illustrations as esoteric or applicable only to the field of sports.

It is commonly dismissed as an esoteric and elitist concern.

As esoteric as the term may be outside of corporate boardrooms, among central bankers forward guidance has become Carney's trademark invention, and is credited for much of the country's strong economic performance throughout the financial crisis.

Ganti's answer is to look for what are known in the industry as esoteric assets — the most obscure stuff he can find.

Not exact matches

A few other pieces compared entrepreneurship to the movie making business with titles like «How Starting A Business Is Like The Making Of Star Wars» (which I want to read) and «How Starting a Business is Like Casting a Movie» as well as the slightly esoteric «How Starting A Business Is Like Casting «la Dolce Vita.»»

Importantly, investors must ensure they are putting money with top quartile managers, as the spread between the best and worst funds in these more esoteric strategies is much wider than that for traditional public managers.

His convictions relied, in part, on an esoteric U.S. legal concept known as the «honest services» theory.

Not long ago, bots were mainly thought of as an IT or somewhat esoteric business problem — the main culprits behind web scraping, brute force attacks, competitive data mining, account hijacking, unauthorized vulnerability scans, spam, and click fraud.

But the new system charges Web broadcasters based on a range of factors, many of them on the esoteric side, such as whether use of the service serves to promote or substitute for record sales, and the fees tend to be higher.

For more esoteric items such as baseball pitching machines and cricket bats, the market is less competitive so retailers may be able to retain a significant portion of the savings and prices will take longer to adjust.

The cryptocurrency, which started off as an obscure and esoteric entity, has spawned a multi-billion-dollar economy that connects startups, investors and consumers.

That's because cryptocurrency started off as an obscure and esoteric asset class but has since become a value store for investors.

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.

As the exchange - traded market has developed, more, er... esoteric, ETFs have arisen, some of them with counterparty risk.

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

It will also look at more esoteric areas of investment such as smaller Asian countries or hedge funds, and the best way of investing in them.

As seen in prior cycles, changes in short - term interest rates alone had yielded little effect on financial conditions, as buoyant risk sentiment strengthened equities, corporate bonds, as well as various forms of «esoteric» investmentAs seen in prior cycles, changes in short - term interest rates alone had yielded little effect on financial conditions, as buoyant risk sentiment strengthened equities, corporate bonds, as well as various forms of «esoteric» investmentas buoyant risk sentiment strengthened equities, corporate bonds, as well as various forms of «esoteric» investmentas well as various forms of «esoteric» investmentas various forms of «esoteric» investments.

As the startup world is esoteric to many, it is required to have discussions, to steer clear of doubts and to give innovation and knowledge a room to grow.

The topics and texts include some esoteric items, such as the ranking of churches and discussion about a common calendar; but they also include problems that emerge from adapting an ancient faith to a modern reality — like precepts of fasting and, in particular, regulations of marriage in a multicultural and interreligious world.

However, such esoteric hipster knowledge (esoteric, if only because it played on inside knowledge that was common knowledge and what everyone knew merely 15 years ago or so) comes across as mere pandering to an electorate of Gen Xers who in their indecisiveness are at best a vote on the margins — at least in terms of their actual numbers.

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.

They refused to accept plural marriage, the idea of the political kingdom, and temple worship, as well as the more esoteric LDS doctrines such as plurality of gods and baptism of the dead.

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.

Much as he criticized radical empiricism and its sterile, truncated rationalism, he was himself too much of a rationalist in the classic, Aristotelian sense to countenance esoteric or occult mysticism and the depreciation of reason.

The heavy reliance on its own internal historical memory may seem to imply that Christianity is just another esoteric religion, accessible only to a group of insiders There is, of course, a certain insider's perspective in any faith tradition, but it would be contrary to the inclusive character of Christianity to interpret our belonging to a Church community as though it were a position of privilege that separates us from those not so gifted.

Father Sheen, for example, vigorously attacked this philosophy which he saw as based exclusively on the new physics and encumbered with an esoteric vocabulary.

Surpassing even the considerable efforts of Bradley, McTaggart, Royce, James, Peirce, Bergson, Alexander, Lotze and a host of other important practitioners of the metaphysical art, Whitehead developed a truly novel and original metaphysical stance that is sufficiently complex so as to border either on the profoundly esoteric or the arcane and obscure.

IMO Obama is an «esoteric christian» of which there are few, he also knows all there is too know about that subject as well, so yeah you people don't get him and too asleep to understand what change means, you can only see the destruction when looking at creation.

In Brown's hands, Leonardo disappears as a masterly artist and becomes little more than a technician inserting esoteric secrets on his canvases.

«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.

It might be thought that the staff, the Greek gospel, and the Cardinals wearing dalmatics are of esoteric interest, but Mgr Marini's explanations show how these particular aspects of the papal Mass demonstrate continuity with the tradition of the Church's ancient liturgy as a model for liturgythroughout the Church.

Contrast this with Christianity, which is now largely considered mythical and irrelevant; or with politics, now largely considered corrupt and all «spin»; or, indeed, with philosophy, now often thought of as an absurd, esoteric pastime.

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

Jung had a deep appreciation for the spiritual riches of the great Eastern and esoteric traditions, which he saw as balancing and complementing the Western religious traditions.

Christianity is concerned with the truth above all else, and truth for Christians is not an esoteric doctrine, as it was with the Gnostics, but is the Logos pervading the universe.

But hey what do I know I'm not a nun with Stockholm Syndrome so I am doubtlessly missing some esoteric point that totally escapes me unless I think of them as mental patients, which they sort of are...