hermeticism

It's extraordinary to think that whereas Albarn has been bringing himself up to speed with concepts of hermeticism, Euclidian geometry and Rosicrucianism, his erstwhile Britpop rival Liam Gallagher has formed Beady Eye.

Dr Dee, Palace Theatre, Manchester | First night review 2011

The composer's only opera, "Pelléas et Mélisande," is indeed a triumph of hermeticism and otherworldliness.

An Otherworldly Opera Jonathan Blitzer 2011

On the more global level of mythology, Dollhouse 1.6 works very hard to expand the show past the tight hermeticism of the first few episodes.

Dollhouse, Rape Culture, and Women in Refrigerators « Gerry Canavan 2009

It's extraordinary to think that whereas Albarn has been bringing himself up to speed with concepts of hermeticism, Euclidian geometry and Rosicrucianism, his erstwhile Britpop rival Liam Gallagher has formed Beady Eye.

Dr Dee, Palace Theatre, Manchester | First night review 2011

Guston may have chosen what felt like freedom at the time, but it drew him only deeper into himself, into a personal hermeticism and despair.

Art reviews: 'Philip Guston, Roma' and 'David Smith Invents' at the Phillips Philip Kennicott 2011

The introverted vista of the windowless arcade corresponds in remarkable ways to the naked hermeticism of modern nightlife.

Club Monad 2008

In order to understand the hermeticism of the verbal topology comprising the substance of nightlife, and in order to articulate the various modes of obscurity intrinsic to the nightspot, one must attend more closely to the solipsistic relations characteristic of monadic substance.

Club Monad 2008

And the Portuguese critic João Gaspar Simões wrote: Its hermeticism has the texture of the hermeticism of dreams.

clarice lispector | mother’s day, a pious invention « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

It is Faur's contention that the Kabbalist rabbis, seen through the filter of the vertical model, transform the Talmudic tradition -- based on a pluralistic dialogue and formal legal strictures -- into an occult hermeticism creating a Judaism that is sealed off from critical reading and rational science.

David Shasha: Two Models of Jewish Tradition: Vertical-Hierarchical and Horizontal Pluralist 2010

It is Faur's contention that the Kabbalist rabbis, seen through the filter of the vertical model, transform the Talmudic tradition -- based on a pluralistic dialogue and formal legal strictures -- into an occult hermeticism creating a Judaism that is sealed off from critical reading and rational science.

David Shasha: Two Models of Jewish Tradition: Vertical-Hierarchical and Horizontal Pluralist 2010