She pauses frequently, thoughtfully, referencing obscure film theory or esoteric essays.
Anyway, I wasn't alone-the film's cultic status can be averred from its having spawned a fan site, dudeism.com, where you can be ordained as a Dudeist priest (who may or may not have a fatwa out on the Virgin Film Guide's publishers) while perusing esoteric essays untangling the movie's homespun wisdom.
In this way, you not only get an animated version of evanescent songs with nature-oriented names such as "Solstice" and "Virus" but you also get a game that allows players to manipulate musical elements, a vocal-less score for esoteric karaoke nights, an essay explaining the history and meaning of each tune and, yes, lyrics.
Even John Lanchester's Capital, for instance, a work by one of the few modern novelists with sufficient knowledge to be able to explain how the modern City of London operates, sometimes reads like a collection of fiscal essays, so esoteric is the information that Lanchester is trying to get across.
I was trained in matters and methods of thought so esoteric that some of my academic essays and early books could be read with profit and understood thoroughly by no more than a few hundred people around the globe.
If devoting an entire essay to "the Henman parents" seems esoteric, then fear not – the Centre Court crowd get their own entry too, as do Beefy Botham, the wildly over-eulogised "art" of sledging, Pelé, the England football team, Kenneth Bates, and Hitler.
He launched the first of his many deluxe art-publishing ventures; edited some erotica; styled himself an aesthete; frequented a bohemia of poets and gallerists; and contributed essays on Cubist poetry and other esoteric themes to Action, a review of avant-garde literature.
The essay pokes fun at classmates who pick esoteric research topics and overstuff their bookshelves to curate this image of academic devotion.
Instead of deconstructing esoteric verbal analogies, students must now perform a task they will actually face in college: writing an essay under a deadline.
In these remarks Leibniz is using the term "esoteric" in a subtly different way than he is in the earlier quote from the New Essays.
Hardly an esoteric topic.
