Contemporary writers and other artists with a style that is intricate, hermetic, demanding--not to speak to "beautiful"--get their ration of unstinting praise.

hermetic, enclosed, and self-referencing fictional structures

Marxists now produced hermetic knowledge, inaccessible to ordinary workers, about fields without any direct relationship to political strategy

the texts are hermetically sealed from history, subjected to a sterile critical formalism, piously swaddled with eternal verities and used to confirm prejudices

to seal off hermetically the frontiers of the intellect

hermetic stretches of row-house monotony

The aim is to reveal the subterranean, subconscious mutual penetration of the personal and the political; the formal consequence is a highly personalized, almost hermetic form of collage

The Viguerie Company's marketing genius was that as it continued metastasizing, it remained, in financial terms, a hermetic positive feedback loop.

management is hermetically sealed in its own world

I was attracted to my mistaken idea of mathematics, my naïve notions of certainty and absolutes, the hermetic world created by a language that seems to have little or not ambiguity.

a new hermetic jargon sprang up