Sentence examples for arcane magic from inspiring English sources

"Why is it that your so-called diet drinks are the preference of the chubbies and the chunkies, as if some arcane magic attached . . .

Ross, as always, was in search of an administrative editor who could, through some arcane magic, make sense of the chaos that he thrived on, hiring a procession of young men ill-equipped to fill this slot — "Hell, I hire anybody" — then quickly dumping them.

"The first idea we had about this whole intellectual property is that there's a world where there's arcane magic that's difficult and you have to learn it and it's passed on," Ehasz said.

They often view people with years of experience like people who have mastered arcane black magic.

He also argues that this knowledge was regarded as a form of arcane wisdom or magic that conferred a privileged status on the elite who possessed it, as it also featured on gold artefacts found in prehistoric graves.

The site adds: "Initiating the reader along the way into the arcane world of professional magic, Kalush and Sloman decode a life based on deception, providing an intimate and riveting portrayal of Houdini, the man and the legend".

Whether a hoax or a deliberate appeal for spiritual revolution, the manifestos were not an attempt to laud reason and science as the world's salvation: the first Rosicrucian texts point backward, to a golden age of magic and arcane wisdom that, the texts suggest, could once again enlighten the world if we only would return to them.

Arcane spaceships and crystal technology indistinguishable from magic cross wires with good old-fashioned combustion engine car chases and creepy, voyeuristic villains while Carpenter Brut's 80s revival soundrack booms in the background.

For example, Fei's magic is called "Chi" and Citan's is called "Arcane".

He winkles out the most mesmerising and arcane items from cupboards and shadowy corridors: a Congolese power figure, an Egyptian soul house, grave dollies, magic nails, their appearance as strange as their purpose.

A dwarf animates one of Symonds' arcane adult novels, The Hurt Runner (1968): he "spent a great deal of his time reading books on magic, phallic and snake worship, and torture, sexual perversities".