The Morgan team thought they could combine esoteric financial instruments so cleverly that repayment risk would simply disappear, or at least become so diluted as no longer to matter.
Each picture is a panoramic shot of a desolate landscape -- a mist-filled swamp, a snow-shrouded forest, a bleakly unpicturesque lake -- populated by a few demonic-looking figures engaged in what could be esoteric rites.
Each of the 13 photographs in her first New York solo show is a panoramic shot of a desolate landscape -- a mist-filled swamp, a snow-shrouded forest, a bleakly unpicturesque lake -- populated by demonic-looking figures engaged in what could be esoteric rites.
Political reality prevented it from saying anything else, but could its esoteric meaning go beyond its exoteric?
At its core, Chérie is a movie about time and the constancy of change -- a theme that could be esoteric and depressing, were it not for the stunning visual and aural landscape the filmmakers grant us, the stylized repartee that screenwriter Christopher Hampton draws from Colette's celebrated novel, and Pfeiffer's grounded, sexy and elegant rendering of the woman at the center of the film.
Yet the progression toward atonality also had a mystical aspect: these uncanny new chords could serve as esoteric icons, emblems of the sacred.
They weren't looking at the projects in terms of business and it meant they could fund very esoteric films, very artistic films, fund new filmmakers - it gave people an opportunity to make film that weren't necessarily going to be box office smashes but would be beautiful or interesting.
You could go all esoteric with the snake eating its own tail, known as Ouroboros, or maybe you prefer something a little more mathematical like the sideways figure 8. Or maybe, just maybe, you'd like to dedicate a whole tumblr blog to hypnotic geometric representations of "that without limit" in GIF form. .
He could be profound and esoteric to the intellectuals; streetwise to the masses.
What could have been an esoteric history lesson turned out to offer a fresh take on a cuisine that Americans are just starting to understand.
