esoteric ˈɛsəˌtɛrɪk adjective
: understandable only by an enlightened inner circle
The word esoteric has appeared in 157 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on June 2 in “Shirley Manson, the Unexpected Godmother of Rock,” by Lizzy Goodman. The article includes a quote by Ms. Manson, the singer of Garbage:
“We’ve now seen two decades of very carefully managed, young, mostly solo, mostly Disney, mostly theater school kids, and they’re great! It brings people a lot of joy. To make somebody dance — what a great gift. I could cry just saying that. But as a result, we’ve also lost the esoteric and the fragile and the dark and the spooky and the fury and all the things that a patriarchal society considers not fitting for a young woman’s mind.”
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