Word: esotericism
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The Snow Was Black is another esoteric and macabre film from the French flick factories that seeks to demonstrate the effects of depravity and loss of hope. Artfully acted, it remains profoundly unconvincing in motivation, without a sense of unity, and almost cheap in exploitation of shock sequences.
Feel & Position. Nos. 10 and 11 are esoteric senses, little known but of great importance: vibratory and two-point discrimination sense. The vibratory sense is lodged in bone, which can feel the vibration of a tuning fork even when surrounding tissue cannot. Two-point discrimination (in itself a two-part...
The dissimilarities mask a pair of brilliant, happily meshed minds that operate effortlessly with talk that often runs to truncated sentences, single words, esoteric expressions. Ramo spends most of his time on missile work while Wooldridge handles the rest, but both decide company policy. So well tuned are the two...
Such salty, down-to-earth treatment of an esoteric surgical specialty could have come only from New Zealand-born Sir Harold Delf Gillies, 74, onetime champion golfer, master of the fly rod, amateur painter and undisputed father of modern plastic surgery in Britain. As co-author of The Principles and...
Perhaps because the much assaulted U.S. ear is wearying of clamorous modern dissonances, audiences seem to be falling in love all over again with the more placid sonorities of the 18th century. That interest in turn has sent students burrowing through monastery attics, museums and castles in search of long...