Sentence examples for arcane fact from inspiring English sources

"Oh, yeah," she said, her voice wondering as she remembered this arcane fact from the distant past.

His knowledge of this arcane fact of my personal history floored me, but my memory of family lore placed the bed rest edict at four months.

In an era when the most arcane fact can be fished from the air via wireless, some librarians have headed into virtual worlds like Second Life, where "extreme virtual librarians" help patron-avatars answer various questions.

He possesses a scholar's exactitude, and occasionally a scholar's pedantry and attraction to the arcane fact — providing the Japanese translation of "boar meat" or positing the Finno-Ugric origins of the word "hemp".

As often happens when curators immerse themselves in a subject, weird and arcane facts emerged.

The two 33-year-old musicians attempt to outdo each other with increasingly arcane facts about canned beverages.

They memorize arcane facts about wine regions and winemaking, jot notes on index cards and quiz one another, rarely seeing their wives or girlfriends.

But he's an encyclopedia of arcane facts, and he remembered that in the 1800s they used black silk thread for this kind of injury.

Then I met a man online who charmed me with his references to Fellini and Patti Smith and his knowledge of arcane facts about New York City.

They recited arcane facts about the valuation of private companies and even quoted from the Securities Act of 1934, which they say Facebook violated when it drew up the settlement.

In private, friends say, Ms. Clinton is much more Bill Clinton's daughter — voluble and argumentative, warm with a biting sense of humor and a knack for remembering arcane facts.