esoteric

The show provides at least modest assurance that real acting will survive as an esoteric service for an esoteric audience.

Still, it would be hard to find another writer who brings Ms. Gaul’s particular strengths to what could have been merely esoteric culinary-history trivialities.

This year’s turnout is also especially significant because Proposition 50 is about the esoteric topic of redistricting.

This is “involution,” a once esoteric term that has come to define life for many in China and capture the biggest problems in the world’s second-largest economy.

In her delightfully written new memoir, “Joyride” — personal stories with a bit of writing advice — she admits that charming people into reading about esoteric subjects is essential to her work.