Sentences with word «esoterica»

[Continuing big sister site Gamasutra's 2010 round - up, Brandon Sheffield presents our top 5 cult hits of the year, a eclectic mix of games from the B - movie esoterica of Deadly Premonition, to the pressures of running a professional game dev sweatshop.

Its utter indulgence in esoterica paradoxically leaves it most vulnerable to the beating heart of this great artist of self - therapy.

The cult television favorite Portlandia gently satirizes a commercial culture full of artisan - obsessives trafficking in such esoterica as $ 68 handmade light bulbs.

Treister's interests tend towards esoterica like Hebrew numerology, alchemical diagrams, Tarot cards, and secret power structures like spy networks or government mind - control programs.

Pulling from long - standing fascinations with film and television tropes, abstract sculpture, game ephemera, poetry, apocryphic histories, internet esoterica, and philosophies of being, Oneohtrix Point Never's myRiad is a hyperstitial «concertscape» imagined from the perspective of an alien intelligence that explores disorienting relationships between space and sound and mutates forms of live musical performance.

This handsome book offers a careful account of the vast array of traditions, rules, and esoterica surrounding the ruffles and flourishes, smells and bells, of the Catholic Church on parade.

But generally, these are esoterica beyond the reach of the field investigator checking out his or her first UFO sighting.

You can expect lots of spoons, footballs and other traditional accessories of Room esoterica.

Adam McKay's says his movie is about «financial esoterica» which is surely a first for an Oscar ceremony.

From French esoterica and farming vehicles to Bugatti race cars, from American muscle to microcars and mopeds, from military effluvia to pristine examples of the French, German, and English mainstreams of yesteryear.

Loved The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol, but you wish Dan Brown could lose his fixation with all the arty esoterica?

You cast Blizaga every turn and don't sweat the details, and people who love esoterica figure it out online so you don't have to.

I guess to delight people like me, who happen across it unexpectedly in a car list stuffed with esoterica, from dune buggies to wood - panelled station wagons to the three - wheeled Reliant van out of Only Fools and Horses.

Most of the bad is somewhat technical esoterica (ie: annoying things that can be worked around), and it does have some fairly solid advantages.

Rendered in his signature stain technique, much of Maslansky's work takes source images from Red Light Lacuna (2011 --RRB-, his found archive of compromising selfies and cringe - worthy esoterica, which he shares through social networking websites.

Chicago is also the windswept, late - industrial landscape where Herman Poole Blount — later Le Sony» r Ra, or Sun Ra — founded El Saturn Records in 1957 and a society called Thmei Research, which explored numerological esoterica and occultist histories of Egypt.

About half of his roster is made up of Angelenos, and a Californian sensibility infuses the program — not only in its emphasis on the region's art - historical legacy, but also, more broadly, in its bias toward esoterica and marginalia, domestic themes and profane materials.

He also was a very successful businessman, who turned esoterica into actual useful commerce, unlike all those peer - review academics who still are stuck in low paying university jobs desperately seeking tenure by churning out junk to get published and recited.

So when some distinctive viewpoint might cause Lady Justice's blindfold to slip you should consider a lawyer who's privy to the secret handshakes, inside baseball, and other esoterica involved.

With accompanying Tumblr and Twitter sites, it is a veritable treasure trove of exotic esoterica that fills the heart of any true bibliophile with joy.

And, by developing software that analysed and predicted consumers» tastes, companies like Amazon were encouraging people to wallow in esoterica.

Enter Black Gold, whose idiosyncratic and unpredictable screenings have so far spanned cult smashes like F. Gary Gray's Friday, under - appreciated but culturally significant titles like Hype Williams's Belly, and esoterica like Edo Bertoglio's Jean - Michel Basquiat - starring Downtown 81.

Pulling from long - standing fascinations with film and television tropes, abstract sculpture, game ephemera, poetry, apocryphic histories, internet esoterica, and philosophies of being, MYRIAD generates a conceptual spectrum that is as much a speculation on the unthinkable future as it is an allegory for the current disquiet of a civilization out of balance with its environment.

As Joe Biden toured a production line, earnestly absorbing the esoterica of superinsulating windows, Surace corralled one of the Vice President's aides.

In days past, we could regard these persons and beliefs as «esoterica,» suitable objects of scholarship by odd professors but otherwise of not much concern to our own religious life.

His list of possible diagnoses reads like a tabulation of esoterica, a group of diseases I've almost never encountered in any patient during my entire clinical career: livedo vasculitis; polyarteritis nodosa, Wegener's, cryoglobulinemia.

Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge and other like - minded researchers quickly found grand significance in the esoterica of string theory.

These images have come to symbolize the mysticism and esoterica that we now associate with Tarot.

Far from the realm of esoterica, ancient concepts of physiology and the human experience are now being validated by modern science.

rOccult is a community centered around discussion of the occult, mysticism, esoterica, metaphysics, and other related topics, for those who.

McKay demystifies big - money jargon and esoterica in enterprising — disruptive?

It is a guide to a little - known part of author J.K. Rowling's richly textured world of witches and wizards, and as such is a delightful compendium of esoterica that offers scrumptious tidbits for casual fans and Potter aficionados, alike.

If that odd fact perked your interest, just wait: Marrin spikes his prose with keep - you - reading bits of esoterica (Depression - era mothers abandoning babies at animal shelters, German dogs taught to bark, «Mein Führer»).

Author Robertson hits all the right notes, knowing just when to «bend the strings» to work in bits of fascinating detail or esoterica.

I met Jonathan Blow above a London restaurant, and after he had worked out the esoterica of his dual laptop set up, I spent three hours playing the game, before Blow and I shared a pleasant interview and -LSB-...]

He has experimented with painting, printing, and drawing, and although his work can be polymorphous, it always carries a distinctive psychedelic aura that pulls equally from the history of 20th century art and the past millennium's esoterica.

Heaven and Earth Magic includes references to the Kabbalah, 19th - century philology, and the writings of Dr. Wilder Penfield on open - brain surgery and the concept of the Homunculus, evincing Smith's nearly encyclopedic knowledge of esoterica and mysticism.

Navigable only with concentrated effort, these esoterica force us to reflect on what we can know with confidence, and when unreliable narratives put us in danger of drowning.

Like the discreet drawing by Ilya Smirnov, «No Title Provided», placed above the radiator, or the small consumed candles on canvases by Josip Nosovel in the corner, Il Futuro era bellissimo per noi triggers a short - circuit mixing low and high culture, dominant historical narratives and esoterica, pop culture and cheap technology — temporalities, language, tone — in a moment that is both sentimental in mood and very dark in humour.

Other reviewers had kinder responses, and there was similar divergence over Ms. Kerbel's «DOUG» — a song cycle about a man who undergoes one ghastly accident after another — and Ms. Camplin's array of books on philosophy, physics, esoterica, yoga and thought control placed around television sets.

Hardly: The «esoterica» on which Jensen draws includes math and physics as well as Chinese and Mayan calendrical systems.

Forty years ago, the esoterica of climate science, and vaguely related fragmented technologies as well, would have been appropriate for the mission.

Since publishing his landmark book, The Developing Mind, psychiatrist Daniel Siegel has been celebrated for translating the esoterica of neuroscience into clinical language that powerfully demonstrates how psychotherapy changes the brain.