Sentences with phrase «such arcane»

Good points but if something is blindingly obvious, like AGW is supposed to be, then why is it necessary to develop such arcane statistical analyses to prove it?

Yet Almereyda is such an arcane artist to begin with that the sixteenth century contrivances he's preserved don't invite very many backward glances; in fact, they feel as much vintage Almereyda as they do vintage Elizabetha.

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.

As a bread baker, they seem like such arcane devices that I've no idea how to evaluate them.

It wasn't such an arcane law after all.

Such arcane telegraphs reek of covert struggle.

Not exact matches

He paused then, at the thought of earthly sorrows, Our sickly past, incarnadine tomorrows, The myriad things that whistle arcane truth To please old minds and to instruct raw youth, And bore down on his broken knees to pray For such a world that had so much to say.

As long as the vocabulary of black theology — like theology in general — remains arcane, James Cone's assertion that «black theology is not academic theology» will continue to confound black preachers while they desperately try to interpret the meaning of such statements.

It is however wonderfully rewarding to be rid of such primitive, arcane nonsense and be able to live a wonderful life free of threats and promises from some idiotic sky daddy.

The religious institutions which formed such people and continued to claim their loyalty took public responsibility in this sense for granted, The churches preached a gospel which supported responsible lives without needing to draw their members deeply into esoteric spiritual disciplines or arcane theological issues.

Even such a subject as church history, often labeled esoteric and arcane by nonspecialists, can be applied to the pastoral ministry of the church.

It's odd that they find so many folks to demonize because of arcane biblical passages yet continue to pray in public despite the pointed criticism of such actions by their Creator.

MPs who stand down mid-Parliament must apply for an arcane post such as crown steward of the Chiltern Hundreds to trigger a by - election.

No true student of history could have made such a cataclysmic and monumental error, given the terrible experiences of others from the south - west, and, indeed, the entire south, who collaborated with such ultra-conservative, sectarian and arcane forces with a clear and distinct ethnic and religious agenda in the past.

It covers a huge area of intellectual ground, from evolutionary conundrums — such as our relationship to the great apes, why we are hairless and bipedal — to matters as arcane as the human aura.

As such, it's as useless as studying arcane imagery in Emily Dickinson.

Judge Moukawsher called for the removal of persistent barriers to student success and equity, such as arcane teacher and leader staffing systems based only on years on the job and degrees earned while leaving out the most important factor: impact on student growth.

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.

Some of the more arcane aspects of Group A regulations, such as the need for standard production door cards and dashboards, must have seemed a bit pedantic to the teams and engineers, but now they add to the charm and the relevance of the car.

Dividend investing isn't much more complex than capital gains investing, and it's much simpler than other income systems such as an online business or more arcane investments such as annuities and options.

Other varieties of home loans and a host of arcane financial innovations — such as collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps — also came into play.

A shift of just 10 % up or down in residential housing prices might touch off just such another cataclysm, so it's worth understanding just how this «arcane - sounding» market works.

The Traits usually associated with Jewelry (Arcane, Robust & Healthy) will remain, but six new Traits will also be introduced to the mix, such as Bloodthirsty, which increases damage against enemies with low health.

For World, however, Capcom has taken great pains to emphasize how they've sanded down some of the sharper points for a whole new generation of Hunters, simplifying the arcane tracking mechanics and adding in more traditional RPG elements, such as damage numbers and a crude health bar for player characters.

The VHS sequences are particularly useful for providing hints on how to survive sequences you will encounter yourself in the future, such as one particularly arcane and delicious puzzle.

Grabner often references the suburban — using embroidery, wallpaper, or gingham patterns as models — or utilizes arcane geometry, such as Archimedes spirals, wherein each point in a spiral is equidistant from the point that preceded it and the one that follows.

The reworked Sufi verses evoke arcane, talismanic characters and numbers that, in accordance with Sufi philosophy, negotiate aesthetic qualities with notions of revelation, divination and the physical manifestation of intangible ideas such as the quest for grace.

Couple with that the apparently cumbersome, intricate, and in many cases arcane nuances of continually adjusting mixed quality point measurements so as to average across space and time (and hence across thermodynamic regimes) and I am unconvinced that such GATs represent much more than the adjustment process evolution.

Or do you have some arcane twist on catchment areas, evapotranspiration, Manning's equation and hydraulic resistance and other such hydrological fundamentals, that the rest of the world is not privy to?

If this were just an arcane dispute among scientists (such as superstring theory, an area of my own interest where the battles are just as fierce, but largely invisible to the general public), the WSJ would have had no reason to publish Koonin's column.

The insistence of librarians on continuing to use what might seem like arcane and antiquated systems — such

From the eternal «lay» or «lie» conundrum to more arcane issues of textualism such as «last - antecedent canon vs. series - qualifier canon,» the archives of LawProse probably have an answer.

There are many different types of electronic formats - or electronically stored information (ESI), as it is known in the e-discovery world - that may be sought in e-discovery, ranging from common data sources, such as basic email and Microsoft Word documents, to more arcane ones like files from a company - specific database.

FATHERS: For the purposes of this dialogue, we are not concerned with the arcane and technical debate as to whether there is such a thing as Parental Alienation Syndrome.