I wondered if Carter might have taken inspiration from Babbitt, who has long imposed clarity and wit on his ostensibly esoteric designs.
The images are typically American — chunky and bold, unlike the more esoteric designs often used for international events like the Olympics.
There are pure fission devices, fission-fusion devices, boosted fission, fission-fusion-fission devices, salted warheads — all kinds of stuff, and that's long before you get into the genuinely esoteric designs.
Perhaps they are esoteric by design – picking stocks is for mere amateurs, not Masters of the Universe.
Alfonso II employed a trio of virtuoso female singers — the concerto di donne — famed for their ability to execute the most esoteric musical designs.
Later balls got more esoteric, featuring designs like a New York Times crossword puzzle written by Will Shortz, and the "Star-Spangled Banner" in Francis Scott Key's original handwriting.
To truly understand the stakes of the global financial game, you must know its building blocks; the characters, testosterone, and egos, as well as the esoteric products designed to squeeze investors, manipulate rules, and favor power-players.
John Cline, another of Dr. Lee's lawyers, has said the defense would use the data to back up its claim that "virtually all" the esoteric physics, testing and design information had already been made public in academic journals and other forums, making its transfer by Dr. Lee to an unsecure computer and portable computer tapes more benign.
My colleague Micah Rosenbloom recently learned that at Apple, the engineering team hired a Ph.D. who specialized in an extraordinarily esoteric field of fan design.
