Sentence examples for arcane obsession from inspiring English sources
In recent weeks, however, an accounting scandal has cost Freddie Mac three top executives and has turned the mortgage companies from the arcane obsession of a few financial types into a big political issue.
His father, David Bowie viewed his son's arcane video game obsession with suspicion.
The EU has scored some spectacular own goals in recent years, making life difficult for its own supporters: weak and demoralised EU institutions; a vain and self regarding Franco-German duopoly under Chirac and Schröder; above all, a damagingly self indulgent obsession with arcane institutional debates.
Other bands may share British Sea Power's musical influences - artful post-punk angularity, the Pixies' squalling guitars, the unsettling, Wicker Man end of English folk - but none shares British Sea Power's obsession with the arcane corners of modern European history, their penchant for dressing in puttees, their willingness to decorate their stages with foliage and stuffed birds.
This is a clue to the special place that Fry holds in British life: he is — writ large, very large, projected, in fact, on to a veritable Imax screen — a great big brilliant boy, still, at 53, with his hobbies and his obsessions and his arcane facts, somehow precocious: clever, naughty, kind.
The novel reads like a manifesto for his obsessions: London, both everyday and arcane; a radical political sensibility; and a determination to resist the standard tropes of fantasy whereby quests are followed, chosen ones fulfil their destiny and evil is vanquished.
With love as our culture's patent medicine, prescribed for every ill (now even touted as a necessary precondition for that other great American obsession, longevity), we willingly subject ourselves to any number of arcane procedures in its quest.
The dispute may seem arcane.
