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Literary readings can sometimes seem esoteric, but we are trying to make them more attractive to more people.
I had assumed that the book would focus on the relatively esoteric technique of using a videolink to interview patients.
It also would have highlighted the interrelationships, rather than the fairly esoteric distinctions, between these areas of discourse studies.
Over the last 200 years, as philosophy has increasingly become an esoteric inquiry pursued formally in the university, these battles have had less social significance.
This difficult topic - the esoteric, the occult, the spiritual - is respectfully placed in its context.
By 1980, he had considerably reduced his allusions to the most ' ' esoteric or supernatural issues.
However, the topics dealt with are often esoteric methodological ones which will make the book heavy going for all except a few specialist demographers.
The risks of being pushed, as a scholar, into 'the esoteric corner' are high.
You cannot expect them to be interested in what seems to them to be your esoteric concerns.
