Sentences with phrase «seem esoteric»

The RE issue is an issue that, while it may seem esoteric, can, in this case, be pinned down.

Morton's conceptually rigorous work can seem esoteric at times, yet her intention is ultimately one of generosity towards the viewer, and it is this spirit of generosity, playfulness, and joy that this symposium — and subsequent exhibition — hopes to expand.

Could they seem esoteric, decorative, and shallow, too?

Such a change may seem esoteric, but without it, hundreds of insurance agents would be put out of work — and everyone in our community would find it more difficult to obtain the right coverage that meets their family needs.

Through this intelligence, in particular, may seem esoteric, there are ways that teachers and students can enhance and strengthen existential intelligence in the classroom, including:

«It may seem esoteric to talk about background knowledge and vocabulary,» Dacia Toll noted at the Fordham symposium.

Although quantum tunneling may seem an esoteric concept, scientists have harnessed it for practical purposes.

The results may seem esoteric, but they could have big implications for everything from oil refining to microfluidic «lab - on - a-chip» technologies.

Many of the issues that exercised Merton's mind in the last decade or so of his life anticipated many of the topics that occupy us in the «70s but which seemed esoteric or trivial at any earlier time.

His work on secretory pathways of AtT - 20 cells seemed esoteric.

A bill requiring all National Science Foundation grants to pass a «national interest» test could hamper the sort of curiosity - driven research that «at first might have seemed esoteric and hardly in the public interest, but ultimately advanced human quality of life,» AAAS CEO Rush Holt writes in a...

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The only plausible interpretation of adding the words «other instruments» then would seem to be that the Bank wants to be able to purchase more esoteric derivatives — financial instruments whose value is distantly related to some underlying, more «real» financial entity.

• Longus, Daphnis and Chloe: The most delightful of the extant «novels» of late antiquity, captivatingly absurd and tender; not really an especially esoteric recommendation, perhaps, but nevertheless a book that very few persons today seem to have read.

Admittedly, all of this might seem impossibly esoteric, but it has everything to do with what is preached from thousands of pulpits and taught to those who will bear the ministry of the churches in the years ahead.

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.

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.

That seems possibly an esoteric point of law.

The best part is, all ingredients are obtainable and accessible, none of those esoteric and highfallutin stuff that seems reserved for some groupies on a spartan detox diet.

Corbyn's jumble of unhappy reflection on past foreign policy and declarations of long held positions will have seemed utterly esoteric to the practical issues facing most people in Britain today.

Energy savings from behavioural change can be dismissed as advanced marketing techniques and may seem trivial compared with the esoteric materials science that is needed to harvest solar energy more efficiently.

Its depiction of esoteric facets of immigrant life lends an air of credibility seldom seen in rom - coms; and its inevitable happy ending is so progressive that it makes Hollywood seem old - fashioned.

OUR TAKE: Paul Thomas Anderson adapting a Thomas Pynchon novel seems like an esoteric intellectual match made in heaven.

If a passion project like «Supermensch» seems difficult to reconcile with Mr. Myers's mainstream movies, the documentary is, in the eyes of its director, a perfect unfolding of artistic passions that more often point him in esoteric directions.

I don't want to sound esoteric, but I can channel that guy in a way I just can't seem to channel anything else.

It may seem like a lot for what amounts to 170 pounds of cement, but the sale price was less than half its estimate, illustrating the difficulty in assigning value to esoteric pieces of racing history.

Speaking at the Southern California Writers Conference in 2009, Redfield explained his strategy for self - publishing for success: «We would go into a small bookshop, a more esoteric bookshop, and we'd go find the manager or owner of whoever was there, hand them the book and say «It's something people seem to like.

This seems like a novel that's more like an excuse for certain esoteric ideas about one - ness from the early 20th century.

Most New York Times bestsellers and older, more esoteric books I looked for were available, although the Kobo Store doesn't seem to run nearly as many big sales.

Like your neighbor's obsession, however, hedging is talked about more than it is explained, making it seem as though it belongs only to the most esoteric financial realms.

But this story shouldn't scare you away from making trades or investing in (what seems to be like) more esoteric markets.

The works of Gilberto Zorio, Kounellis, Mario Merz, Pierre Paulo Calzolari and, to a degree, Marisa Merz, Giovanni Anselmo and Penone, all seem analogously connected with the apocryphal science of transforming inert, base materials into «gold» of a living, universal, primordial, esoteric kind.

These are not esoteric questions, you'll hopefully notice, just so easily solved for OECD people that it seems hardly worth asking.

Most of the discussion seems to revolve around esoteric legal issues concerning what the US is allowed and not allowed to do as a result of President Obama's agreement to the «treaty» without Senate consent.

I had thought that what the IPCC had done would be considered too esoteric to be explained to the masses and therefore unworthy of much attention but he seems to have achieved the impossible.

Esoteric arguments over statistics on data processing methods seem a common theme on many of the hard fought battlefields.

It is easy for a court to misconstrue esoteric terms like «goodwill,» but it seems unlikely that an expert could deny that fair market value implies a hypothetical sale, or that valuation is the net present value of an infinite series of annual profits.