Sentence examples for rather arcane from inspiring English sources

No longer is data security the exclusive and rather arcane preserve of spotty technology professionals or data protection lawyers.

If you think that all sounds rather arcane, you'd be right.

And Mr. Boehner, even in office, is a rather arcane subject for a Chinese audience.

It seems odd that these rather arcane forays into music history are prompted by the latest technical frill.

Rather, the big factors are subtle differences in rather arcane rules that each state chose during the implementation process.

It's a bit confusing and rather arcane at the moment, but more should become clear on playing.

So why is this rather technical, arcane piece of town hall governance policy a top-of-the Today-programme issue?

His Cambridge thesis was on the rather more arcane topic of England's 1690s Recoinage Crisis: perhaps he should have stuck to that.

But, instead of making this her main question, she began by making a rather more arcane point about the coalition's pension guarantee, which does not cost the Treasury any extra money this year or next year, although it will cost the Treasury £450m a year by 2014-15.

Despite previous accounts suggesting the use of sarin or a similar compound, he told Rogin that the investigation had all but determined that the chemical used in Homs was not a nerve agent at all but, rather, an arcane drug with a formula that has never been publicly identified.

While the academic debate about the dozens of species concepts will undoubtedly continue (although they are perhaps winding down [Hey 2006]), the author focuses on the historical processes causing speciation, rather than arcane points about how to define a species.