It isn't; architects of whatever stylistic persuasion find it a grim and overbearingly bureaucratic business ground down by arcane and ever-changing government planning initiatives which few people can make head or tail of".
"Maidan" is an arcane English word that means parade ground or square.
It now houses an odd combination of Soviet-era relics (the only museum in Europe with a helicopter gunship in the grounds), thrilling Thracian treasures and arcane political memorabilia.
A group of four drawings, encased in frames, have to do with "Simultaneous Realities," in which arcane symbols and easy words on lots of white ground suggest the notion of colliding worlds.
Beard's popularizing bent is grounded in a deep knowledge of the arcane, and she gives new insight into the hoariest of topics, according to Elaine Fantham, a well-known Latinist who is a generation Beard's senior.
Heresy trials would be a fertile ground for showing the Church of England at its most arcane.
He leads all of baseball, by a wide margin, in his ratio of ground balls to balls lifted in the air, an arcane but telling statistic.
A guarantee against risk would transform some of the central issues involving the Enron partnerships from debates over arcane but often legitimate accounting tactics to the more familiar stomping ground of securities fraud cases.
Consider some of the elements that make it opaque: arcane pricing, the necessity for secrecy about the harvest (would you advertise the ground where you found that $1,000 tuber?), a culture of tax evasion in some of the most important habitats and tight-lipped non-public companies.
In the Council's arcane parlance, Iraq's ongoing breach of past edicts would in itself be sufficient grounds for a more forceful response by Council members, American officials said.
He brings up arcane philosophies, undercuts his own ideas through self-deprecation, and then tries to reconcile the middle ground between them.
