Sentence examples for seems arcane from inspiring English sources

The dispute seems arcane, but in Hungary the passions behind it are running high — high enough that a former prime minister has begun a hunger strike over it.

There's a band in London called Vincent Vincent and the Villains attempting to start a rockabilly revival, but what they're doing seems arcane.

While much of the debate seems arcane, the insurers say the wording of the new regulations could exclude efforts aimed at improving the quality of medical care for patients.

For most Scots, whose pound notes already look different from English ones, the problem the unionists describe seems arcane and, amid a general anti-establishment feeling, possibly designed to confuse.

Now we're supposed to live in a less turbulent musical era, where the whole smorgasbord of the past is available online, ready for anyone to draw on, where nothing seems arcane and nothing really goes out of fashion.

But for everyone else, the rhetoric of Ted Cruz at times seems arcane and esoteric.

The dispute may seem arcane.

On the surface the issue seemed arcane.

To mainstream readers, this argument may seem arcane.

Orthodox bishops have a record of quarrelling about matters which seem arcane to outsiders.

This budget row will seem arcane to many (see our bluffers' guide).