"esoteric questions" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to questions that are obscure, mysterious, or intended for a specific group of people with specialized knowledge or interests. Example: The conference panel was filled with esoteric questions, leaving the audience with much to ponder about the latest advancements in quantum physics.
These articles center on esoteric questions that obscure the issue for the general public.
-- yet it barely figures in his analysis, which is preoccupied with esoteric questions like "the precise locus of American sovereignty".
In the main, it's not in the panel's interests to trip you up with wilfully esoteric questions.
The academic-style discourse would drag on for hours without producing a single concrete conclusion; it would yield only increasingly esoteric questions".
It is a debate that often turns on seemingly esoteric questions about the meaning of the word book and the experience of reading pixels instead of print.
But what may be surprising is that even on rather esoteric questions, the suspicion that science is akin to atheism, and that therefore science cannot be trusted, easily surfaces.
The work poses the esoteric question "what is race?" and part of it, we're told, examines Anne Robinson's notorious remarks about the Welsh on Room 101 ("What are they for?" she asked "I never did like them").
One American columnist, for example, posed the oddly esoteric question of whether Occupy Wall Street reflects American anti-intellectualism. MSNBC conducted an investigative report into whether food being prepared in the urban encampments truly meets vegan standards.
Debating young-earth creationism is different than debating the existence of a deity – the latter becomes a fairly esoteric question when you start talking about existence and consciousness and so on, but the former is a more down-to-earth discussion.
SLAC's linear accelerator — linac, for short — continued to operate, studying important, but more esoteric physics questions.
That may sound like an esoteric geography question, but it is being asked by investors as Greece's debt crisis creates global jitters about the safety of sovereign debt.
