Sentences with phrase «esoterica as»

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

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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.
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.
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.
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