Sentence examples for arcane term from inspiring English sources

"State capture" is an arcane term in most places; in South Africa, it is the standard description of the government's relationship to certain tycoons and gangsters.

But there are five weeks for the electors to be "appointed," or, to use an even more arcane term, for governors to issue Certificates of Ascertainment, advising the National Archives and both houses of Congress who was elected in their state.

A small exhibition catalog describes the show in somewhat arcane terms.

He was a disciplined and chiselled prose stylist who could not resist dropping names and arcane terms into his work.

It was full of wonderfully arcane terms like "tappet" "die" and "run-iron" and was beautiful Industrial Revolution technology.

The final report will be replete with arcane terms and precise numbers, and will probably not get as much attention as this one.

I had hoped to ask Mr. Smith how he planned to monitor the expansive and arcane terms of the settlement and what size of army he would be deploying to ensure that the banks fulfilled their promises.

The Shakespeare on the Sound cast never quite pulls the full meaning out of the lines with more arcane terms or unfamiliar structure, but they do well when the period language is clear to 21st-century ears (e.g., "I am a plain-dealing villain"; "You have killed a sweet lady").

These days, neurasthenia and Newyorkitis may be arcane terms, but that doesn't mean neurosis doesn't thrive in the city that never sleeps, at least not without Ambien, melatonin or a discussion about which to take during upgraded air travel.

Everything from "mortgage" ("Literally 'dead pledge', and if it were called that maybe more people would think twice about getting one…") to more arcane terms like the "Laffer Curve" and the "Vix Index", is subjected to his Johnsonian attention and wit.

Given the difficulty of explaining these to the non-specialist, unfamiliar with arcane terms like rehypothecation or balance sheet interconnections, the dangers of the present system are perhaps best understood by analogy with problems the aviation industry encountered when it made the transition to jet aircraft.