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hermeticism

[hur-met-uh-siz-uhm] / hɜrˈmɛt əˌsɪz əm /
NOUN
occult sciences
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On the other hand, the hermeticism of the action in “Parabellum” is what lends it an uncanny paranoiac frisson.

From The New Yorker May 17, 2019

Durant is the most self-conscious star in the league, and he inhabits that particular space with ascetic hermeticism.

From Slate Apr. 18, 2019

There are those who accuse Ozick of narrowness, of the very hermeticism she herself warns against, and “Critics, Monsters, Fanatics” is unlikely to put this line of argument to rest.

From New York Times Jun. 23, 2016

Yet the glossy hermeticism and theatrical realism of many older, ostensibly classic movies have dated terribly and reflect the very exclusions and compromises of the system that produced them.

From The New Yorker Jul. 8, 2015

This is the unexpected gift that is Vulnicura, that it both breaks with the hermeticism of her more conceptual projects and transcends its own melodrama, coming through its vale of tears reawakened, damp and shiny.

From Slate Jan. 26, 2015




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