A new physics was their principal gift, an arcane and rigorous discipline that ran counter to common intuition.

A popular lecturer, he treated economics as an aspect of society and culture rather than as an arcane discipline of numbers.

He wasn't sure if it was a personal matter, or something inherent in the two arcane disciplines.

He was then, according to her account, in his forties, relatively young to be the master of such powerful arcane disciplines.

The problems are emerging as the computer industry increasingly relies upon an arcane mathematical discipline that is intended to hide the secrets embedded in digital information behind a veil of imposing math problems.

Natalie had done a little of everything, from arcane self-defense disciplines and sweat lodges to feng shui and jazz dancing.

For a good physicist, biology was an arcane discipline; for a biologist, physics was obscure.

I could never have gone beyond the Kuji-kiri and the Kobudera, the arcane disciplines that Saigo had mastered.

This was especially helpful in the arcane discipline of compulsory figures, the tedious figure-8 tracings that once counted as much as 50 percent of a skater's total score.

TYPOGRAPHY was once an arcane discipline, with its own system of measurement, its own language and a technology that depended largely upon pencil and paper.