This gesture — heartbreaking in its propriety and dutifulness — also has a great deal to do with a by now arcane notion of fidelity: Hardwick had chosen Lowell, and she accepted responsibility for that.
For years, buyers, sellers and lenders operated under the arcane notion that if you wanted to own a home, you needed a down payment and some semblance of a good credit history.
I blame myself that I am hooked on some arcane notion that the overture, a gem of musical economy, should be a warm-up exercise to sharpen our ears for the ingenuities of Mozart's score before it unfolds: a brief, unadulterated contemplation of notes, rhythms, harmonies lasting around four minutes.
It's an arcane notion that's a holdover from a time when there wasn't as much media.
Clinging to the arcane notion that only straight, married couples are properly equipped to be good parents is just plain silly.
As I said, I was pretty ignorant of the fact that being transgender isn't something that can be overcome, fixed, prayed away, exorcised or obliterated by any other arcane notion.
The right to trial by jury is not just some arcane constitutional notion.
For all those Commonwealth citizens who were initially told they were entitled to come here but have since been blocked, or for those separated from loved ones by arcane rules separating families, the notion that Britain has an open-door immigration policy will produce hollow laughter.
Our notion of space as arcane as the flat earth.
Arcane statistics support this common-sense notion; if the public demands more, business will seek to provide it.
