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also hermetical
as in esoteric
difficult for one of ordinary knowledge or intelligence to understand
wrote hermetic poetry whose sole intended readership was himself
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Despite appearances to the contrary—the swirling sentences, the feverish intellection—there is nothing hermetic about Krasznahorkai’s work, both old and new, which squarely faces contemporary European reality and its perils, including the tortured dynamics of settlement, movement, and identity.
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James Wood, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2025
On Ohio Players, the often hermetic duo brought in collaborators like Beck, Dan the Automator, and Noel Gallagher to add some new flavors to their signature high-definition garage-rock.
—Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
But the sound is less hermetic, more emotionally forward, rooted in the physical now.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 9 July 2025
But this has never happened with Fox, because, despite his hermetic reputation preceding him, the legend is backed by its weight in musical gold.
—Nate Rogers, Vulture, 22 May 2025
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Then there was the play that made many scratch their heads — the one when the Carolina Panthers’ game-tying field goal was blocked only for an esoteric NFL rule to award the Panthers with the ball, a new set of downs and great field position.—
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The ideological provocations of Madonna (Ciccone) iconography and the esoteric execution of Björk songs meet (again) in Lux’s palette of fixations.—
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Its most profound feature is the use of the actual 70-minute audio recording of Hind’s phone calls to the dispatchers.—
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After a full year without alcohol, Chiang noted that health improvements are more profound.—
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“Hermetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermetic. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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