Sentence examples for esoteric term from inspiring English sources

"Artists' housing has gone from an esoteric term to a buzzword," said Robert Lane, the director of the design program at the Regional Plan Association, a nonprofit urban planning group for the greater New York City area.

In the eighteenth century, the phlogiston hypothesis extended Aristotle's idea to other reactions, and the word "fire" was replaced by the more esoteric term "phlogiston" (Greek word for flame).

Experimental choreographers often speak about dance in esoteric terms; while potentially alienating, it's also fitting.

It sounds simplistic, but with little kids, you don't talk in esoteric terms.

Go to business school so you can understand all the esoteric terms industry people will throw around.

Too often, he wrote, Americans have been enamored of "a nerdy-sounding priesthood, using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like".

Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive.

(Some apologists for the film try to explain away these shortcomings in highly esoteric terms).

The ascent of Mount Parnassus is, in esoteric terms, the journey towards knowledge, and art.

He also reminds us that the debate that Washington characterizes in esoteric terms like "the debt ceiling," "sequestration," the "fiscal cliff" and "entitlements" is really about the day-to-day lives of real people and what kind of future is in store for them and their families.

Also, when I hear the word "activist," I can't help but thinking of a group of intellectual people arguing over esoteric terms and language while not even attempting to figure out how to communicate those things to the folks they are trying to convince or help.