Sentences with word «arcane»

Cole, pictured above, stars as the story's hero Don Wallace, a wide - eyed new boy from a modest background forced to navigate a baffling new world of arcane rules and rituals.

The AI can be a bit clunky and its reluctance to bring important developments to your attention can be annoying, but if you're out for some simple strategy fun that won't bury you in arcane rules (or you just dig the idea of building your own glorious underground kingdom), A Game of Dwarves should suit nicely.

Because some detail - oriented financial planners like to torture themselves with arcane features of financial plan software, vendors have responded.

His international network of professionals is a powerful asset to our clients when navigating the often arcane world of fine art.

Fuel dumping is one of the more arcane arts of travel hacking; it involves configurations of flight legs which cause the fuel surcharges normally associated with an itinerary to «drop off,» leave only the (usually much lower) base fare in place.

This made this rather arcane art form into a new discovery - based science, the goal of which was to discover phylogeny, or what Darwin called the «tree of life,» in all its details.

The entertainment and media industries are governed by arcane rules and precedents developed over a century.

Rupert Murdoch, Philip Green and Mike Ashley all resisted a committee summons, but eventually appeared without the need for arcane parliamentary procedures to get them there.

Instead of a more arcane system with unique item drops, Nioh takes a Diablo like approach to loot.

Lawyers are notorious for communicating in arcane language non-lawyers do not understand.

Building on the tradition he had established in films like Alps and Dogtooth, he there brought his obsession with societies built on arcane systems of governance to glorious fruition in a mesmerizing tale anchored by a deliriously deadpan performance from Colin Farrell (Seven Psychopaths).

Set in 1920s New York City, the story's about a musician drafted into arcane rituals by a rich white man with esoteric hobbies.

Economically, he started flexing the muscles of the state to arbitrarily enforce arcane laws in order to force most successful independent business sell controlling interest of their shares to Gazprom.

«Old wine cool» has much FUD about arcane secret knowledge and mysterious vagaries of taste.

«Furthermore, if this cynical attempt to use arcane election law to gain control of a political party that she didn't help build is successful, it will deny the Women's Equality Party line to 400 local candidates in this year's elections.»

Too often, however, the field is looked upon as a set of arcane procedures that are implemented, without much thought, by computer algorithms.

He explores arcane knowledge from the works of Darwin to James Joyce and David Attenborough to Sherlock Holmes, in addition to telling his own wild, don't - try - this - at - home adventures in humorous and compulsively readable prose.

ANA Mileage Club award charts are complex, if not arcane, so let's try to break them up by regions.

The attitude of the religious left toward South Africa's «right - wing religious groups» — meaning the overwhelming majority of evangelicals — would matter little if the stakes involved nothing more than disputations over arcane issues of theological doctrine.

Thus playing as one of 8 Legendary Lords across 4 iconic races, players must succeed in performing a series of powerful arcane rituals in order to stabilise or disrupt The Great Vortex, while foiling the progress of the other races.

The arguments get into somewhat arcane detail — library consortia, cost - per - circulation figures — but the upshot is that librarians are frustrated by the hurdles they face in offering ebooks.

The only helpful thing the inspector general has done is lay bare that it's well past time for Congress to update the Higher Education Act so arcane interpretations of it can no longer stifle the innovation that higher education needs sorely and WGU has produced consistently.

It's a LOOOOONG way from arcane arguments about the supposed necessity of some sort of uncaused caused to the anthropomorphisized monstrosties called Yahweh or Allah.

Buying it meant Amazon could take advantage of what now seem arcane international postal union agreements between Australia and the UK, offering zero postage costs for Australian consumers.

New Yorkhas very arcane ways to nominate our candidates and as he got more educated in that process he gave serious, serious consideration in the last two weeks and going to the convention,» Langworthy said.

How far will your skills take you in the search for Arcane Magic?

By working with the insurance experts for Colorado renters, you'll find answers to even the most arcane questions and the best coverage at the best price.

Common sense is not dead in the world of law, though sometimes it feels like arcane rules, quibbles, and loopholes win out over more common solutions.

Even a quick summary of the recent financial crisis, the starting - off point for the book under review, would require a reasonably sure grasp of such arcane matters as cross-border capital flows, fixed and floating exchange rates, securitisation, bank capital requirements and regulatory arbitrage.

These systems could also work together with methods for visualizing data to help users hunt through arcane databases for vital details or interesting trends.

Class action settlements — perhaps a bit arcane for a blog post, but a gripper if you are defending a class action.

«4 debates over arcane points substituted for real debate of politics and values.»

Printed by Ian Steadman at Arcane Studios, published by Chisenhale Gallery, London.

Everything elase is clouding the storyline and making it look like it just a food fight over arcane technical issues.

It sounds logical enough, but such a strategy was flatly refused as too arcane by officials in key export markets like North America and China.

This isn't uncommon in the music business, given the often arcane system of paying some fees to publishers, some to artists, some to distributors and some to owners of a «mechanical license» or limited right to reproduce — all of whom can be different entities.

The stage is set, and what follows is Eco at his best — arcane debates on the medieval problem of universals or the poverty of Christ interspersed with monks thrown off balconies and poisoned by secret books.

Government funding agencies will have examples of documentation they require, many venture capital companies have guidelines on business plans, and there are any number of Web sites devoted to business education that will help you out with such arcane documents as cash - flow summaries, Gantt charts, and the like.

Yet as the day progressed, many of the participants who had initially kept quiet in the group discussions became more and more animated - many expressed surprise that they actually had something to say on seemingly arcane questions about taxation and benefits.

By working with the insurance experts for Colorado renters, you'll find answers to even the most arcane questions and the best coverage at the best price.

Even the job which law schools supposedly do well, which is to indoctrinate impressionable youth in arcane legal reasoning, can actually get in the way of running a law firm, because law schools teach students how to identify issues or problems, but not how to solve them.

So who are these wizards behind My Cover Letter Services and what arcane secrets do they possess that allows them to turn iron into gold, metaphorically speaking?

If you love travel but hate dealing with the intricacies and somewhat arcane terms of frequent flier and hotel programs, you will love the Bank of America Travel Rewards Credit Card for its simplicity, earning potential, and extra benefits for Bank of America banking customers.

Where things can really get complicated is that these annuities use arcane methods to calculate their gains (daily average, monthly point - to - point, annual point - to - point) and typically impose spreads, participation rates or caps that limit the share of the market's return you receive.