But I venture that not even cricket has a vocabulary as wide and arcane as that of sailing. |
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The play has inconsistencies of tone, and like all Shakespearean comedy, its jokes are archaic and arcane. |
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Eventually, just two competitors stand against each other until one is able to spell some arcane word that the other cannot. |
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At one point an arcane discussion about the future of cursive handwriting starts up. |
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This arcane practice has to come to an end if investors are to have faith in equities in the long term. |
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In many parts of the globe disputes over history are often not arcane or academic disagreements. |
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Under the arcane rules of the council, this has to be debated at an Executive Committee meeting. |
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The compact libretto used less of the flowery, arcane language that once had seemed a requisite of high style. |
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Einstein proceeds to describe with arcane mathematics and symbols his theory of relativity. |
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But in the arcane world of Commonwealth Games eligibility, nothing is simple. |
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Here at least, the lyrics are quite clear and not concealed beneath some arcane reference. |
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Can television handle philosophy, which is popularly seen as either arcane or impossibly difficult? |
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Civil servants, ministers and the pensions industry agonised over how to interest the public in this arcane subject. |
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In a busy schedule where usually the legislation is very arcane, it can take years, if ever, for necessary change to occur. |
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The magazine's erudite, elegant editor encouraged all sorts of arcane and experimental ruminations from his reviewers. |
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Unlike Belloc's old staff, the new staves were ornately carved with runes and ancient arcane symbols. |
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One of the furry demons in particular, a lycanthrope who had been trained in the arcane arts, was slaughtering Knights. |
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What keeps you reading, despite arcane diversions into the footnotes of manga and anime, is the sense of adventure. |
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Utility accounting is notoriously arcane and based on aggregate, not marginal, costs. |
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It is a theme that pervades this seductive book, with its delight in the arcane and ordinary. |
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The disc's second half comes across like Coney Island arcane arcadia by way of clattering barrelhouse piano and broken merry-go-round melodies. |
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Frass is an arcane English word meaning the excrement or droppings of insects. |
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Some of the most egregious alleged conduct had nothing to do with arcane accounting shenanigans. |
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As these heraldic arms became more elaborate, their description or blazon came to acquire its own rules, arcane vocabulary, and concise syntax. |
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The exsistence of the ultramicroscopes, and their primacy in their day, is arcane, but not controversial. |
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The world of ska and reggae has always been arcane and alien to those outside it. |
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She is able to explain the more arcane bits of theology in a very clear and understandable way. |
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And so art became baffling and uninterpretable without acquaintance with arcane theory. |
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Wizards, sorcerers, and other arcane spellcasters of the world, we need to step it up a notch. |
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And they will hire the finest lawyers and planners to navigate their private fortunes safely through the arcane niceties of the tax code. |
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What was lost amid the brouhaha about Martin's background was the display of arcane tradition that his election symbolised. |
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I went through arcane methods and eventually deduced who is my Secret Santa! |
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In fact, you barely notice after a while, since you're so absorbed in Eddie's arcane ramblings. |
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Compared to Watkins, Atlantis is a bit grubby and poorly lit and the place is stacked with arcane junk. |
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Then, as minority stockholders, they could exploit Germany's arcane takeover law to demand a higher price for their shares. |
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They then began to beat wild and arcane rhythms on their knives and fly swatters. |
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And they have the responsibility of translating an arcane vocabulary into a comprehensibility that reaches us. |
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They seemed to be made of solid stone, but were inlaid with precious red and purple stones that formed arcane and twisted designs. |
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The elf smiled, concentrating for a moment, then glanced up, tracing one hand across invisible arcane symbols in graceful, fluent motions. |
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But the compelling counter argument is that, although apparently arcane, it does reflect the reality at that given point in time. |
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The argument between the government and the BBC has become so arcane that most of the general public feel submerged beneath the pros and cons. |
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He uses his exploration of these long-forgotten characters and their arcane quarrels to advance three propositions. |
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Doorways into the mind and the unknown are symbolized as arcane, bewildering entrances and egresses. |
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The judiciary should modify its arcane ways, cling to all its powers, enrage the executive and forget emollience. |
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Meanwhile, fellow students were discoursing on what was to me the arcane subject of process theology. |
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Later, after transitioning to the line, he became an expert in the arcane problems of naval gunnery. |
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If you're an aficionado of arcane ephemera, you'll enjoy flipping through this at least once. |
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Personally I couldn't care less about trying to duplicate effects that have already been achieved using the arcane language of electronics. |
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Those unfamiliar with the saga are bound to be mystified by the more arcane plot twists. |
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They conjure up images of dusty old offices, arcane inventions and oddball inventors. |
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His telling anecdotes draw on years of personal acquaintance with key figures, and alert attendance at arcane, cultish tech conferences. |
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Apparently there's some strange, arcane folk belief that wearing such headgear actually makes everything you say and do amusing. |
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This system was difficult to use because store employees needed to remember arcane instructions and enter a lot of keystrokes. |
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For a long time, Irving used his streetwise independence to dazzle career academics with the arcane quality of his research. |
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The riotous crowd around him swept him along through arcane underground tunnels to a vaulted hall. |
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Those interested in the more arcane hagiographical matters will enjoy the appendices to this readable volume. |
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I could find a mentor and follow them around, learning the arcane and mystical art of pointing. |
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Stripped of arcane folderol, that's what the Electoral College amounts to. |
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Records were denied airplay for the most arcane reasons imaginable. |
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But for most of us real wealth will not be found in the arcane alphabet soup of economic indicators but in the starker credit and debit entries of our bank statements. |
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Each dancer selected a personal dance photo and then, in a class worthy of pre-med students, dissected the arcane anatomical events of the chosen pose. |
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I feel oppressed and confused by neat columns of figures marching down the page or screen, disoriented by colour-coded graphs and the arcane jargon of statistical analysis. |
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This forced the designers to behave like Soviet central planners, micromanaging every aspect of the marketplace with arcane algorithms of supply and demand. |
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But all it meant for him now was that he'd end up trapped in these horribly unpleasant dreamscapes, where strange dire men hawked cookware and arcane exercise devices. |
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Judges, sheriffs and advocates are to be asked to remove their wigs and gowns and stop using arcane language under plans to make Scottish courts less intimidating. |
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If the dos and don'ts of tipping are so arcane, why is it so prevalent? |
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His main goal in life seemed to be the procuring of prostitutes in as many nations as possible, and he was keen to share his accumulated wisdom on this arcane topic. |
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Modern conflict may be too complex for arcane forms of protest. |
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Triathlon, the arcane sport of masochists, is poised to hit it big, with a high-profile Olympic debut and two camera-ready hardbodies in a duel for glory. |
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It was the White Witch, sorceress and enchanter, whose command over the mystic forces and arcane arts was rivaled only by Prince Albrecht himself. |
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I am in the process of securing a carousel slide projector, and it is my fondest hope that such an arcane technological device may help me in my quest for understanding. |
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It may seem an arcane issue to go to war over, but the unions are worried that they are losing an increasing number of workers to the private sector. |
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Longhi's metaphors are sometimes arcane, but they can also be familiar. |
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We popped over to Oracle's Web site today to take a gander at the Software Investment Guide, designed by the database giant to clarify its arcane pricing. |
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For adherents of some disciplines, using the resources allotted to them by academia to produce arcane, unread tomes may be fine, but this isn't doing feminism any good. |
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The rules which determine the appropriate choice in conversation derive from the arcane art of knowing the ins and outs of the complex sociocultural fabric of Korean. |
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The Garden of Cyrus, with its arcane explorations of botany and geometry, may as well be an alchemical treatise or a grimoire. |
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The arcane pair of paragraphs are packed with the sort of yawn-provoking polysyllables that only a lawyer could love. |
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He is admirably intent on rescuing literature from the arcane rituals of US academia and restoring it to a wider audience. |
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While they are arcane even in Georgia, they apparently are not without some small degree of influence. |
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Stone is an arcane imperial measurement that has somehow weathered the tests of time in Ireland and the UK, especially in regard to the weight of people. |
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She is the fashion correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and by the lights of the arcane pecking order of this bizarre business is accepted as the queen bee. |
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This capability, known in the civil community as hacking, phreaking, and other terms for arcane computer skills, also poses cultural problems for the US military. |
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The painter's orphic sleight of hand was abetted by arcane titles that conjure profligate aristocrats, sexual libertines, adepts of the dark arts and drugged esthetes. |
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Worse yet, observes Ailes, our 42nd president remains a hopeless a policy wonk, the more complex and arcane the issue the better. |
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It was the arcane language of white magic, the magic of healing and life. |
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A year ago, produce traceability was an arcane business standardization topic that interested only a few industry leaders. |
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Tradition can also refer to beliefs or customs that are Prehistoric, with lost or arcane origins, existing from time immemorial. |
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Her vegetable compound included such arcane ingredients as mother wart, black cohosh, something called unicorn root and plenty of alcohol. |
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What do you do when you can't find an APA citation form for the arcane document you're using? |
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It respects the play, but it doesn't provide any new material for arcane debates on what it all means. |
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They have pared it down, stripped out the arcane 'three-day-ness', distilled the essence and come up with a new product. |
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His investigations hint at secrets held for centuries, revenge, and omerta in the arcane, twisting corridors of the Vatican itself. |
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There are now 'factlets', which are distinguished from factoids in that they are true but completely arcane and useless. |
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Demoscene is an extremely arcane subculture characterized by endlessly clashing perspectives, trends, and technological innovations. |
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The system has also been criticized for being arcane, lacking in some of the safeguards of justice, and unable to deal with the modern world. |
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The automaton's oracle would seem to introduce an arcane mnemotechnics into the poet's anamnesis, drawing his memory up from its abysmal depths into a kind of surface. |
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Hardware or software, if there was one thing Morton did astoundingly well, it was concocting sock-knocking techno gizmo solutions to the most arcane problems. |
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Is all this artiness, inherited and accumulated, useful in grappling with the arcane world of university finance and politics, internal and external? |
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Joining him is the highborn noble heroine from the elven homeland of Kilikala, a slave minotaur, a dwarf from the mighty city of Boraduum and a mistress of arcane magic arts. |
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Witchcraft, vampirism, romance, time travel, and arcane manuscripts? |
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Elves are also associated with the arcane wisdom of alchemy. |
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For example, to insist on the inclusion of female match racing in Ynglings amounts to a foolish fixation on an arcane and visually unexciting aspect of the sport. |
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Post-Modern Classicists play wilful games with the kit of parts with a degree of abstraction that can rival the Modern Movement at its most arcane. |
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