Graduate students are ordinarily a quiet insular lot, engrossed in esoteric pursuits.

Yet it also financed more esoteric pursuits like The New Criterion, a literary journal where typical fare is a long attack on the Modern Language Association, a society of English professors.

By then rock climbing was evolving from an esoteric pursuit into a sport.

And so we attempt to weave a cogent narrative around all these fairly esoteric pursuits in a frantic attempt to imbue them with meaning.

The esoteric pursuit of measuring who makes the fastest computer chips has turned nasty, with accusations of pressure, conflict of interest and deception.

Since then he's turned to more esoteric pursuits, aligning himself with the youthful electronica scene and spending his spare time piloting vintage planes.

Robotics has always been an esoteric and expensive pursuit, with few avenues for the home dabbler to create a robot that can venture around the house or out into the world.

It was an old world now: rich, mellowed, and given over to the esoteric pursuits devised by peoples whose wants were won without toil.

The citizens of Konishi polis seem to concern themselves mostly with abstract mathematics and esoteric philosophical pursuits, and generally show little interest in the physical world.

On occasion, it has been the home of more esoteric pursuits such as the hand-carving of a traditional baidarka of the type used by Aleutian hunters.