He studied the array of figures and scrolling information, incomprehensible to someone not inculcated into the arcane traditions of Intelligence.

But while kosher has carried the aura of arcane tradition and painstaking sacrifice for centuries, it is increasingly seen as a relatively accessible manner of eating.

All of the ornate ritual, all of the arcane and ancient tradition and science had come to this, then.

And the clothes; the arcane, olde-English tradition of scarlet gowns combined with the self-consciously wacky piano keyboard-ties, the endless home-knitted scarves, the Afghan jerkins.

Moore took an arcane European tradition and neatly transformed it into an American one.

Everyone else has stopped, and you and I are carrying on some arcane tradition.

Ask someone to explain the fierce devotion of alumni, or the school's arcane traditions, and the answer is often a smile or a shake of the head.

When I asked about finding gandy dancers to talk to, there was often a short pause and then a perplexed comment as to how I knew of this arcane tradition.

However, it's safe to say that I am more disposed than most to drawing major conclusions from the arcane aquatic traditions of the Bozo.

The old considerations of practice were based on authority figures, arcane traditions and molecular theories.