arcane
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The book’s style is more professorial than memoirist, and deals with themes from Aristotle and Plato to Hobbes, Nietzsche, Hegel and other more arcane philosophers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
It’s important to be able to talk in that way and bring the debate actually away from arcane interpretation and back towards: So what are we even doing in the first place here?
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
So what better time to drop a new album full of arcane jokes, baffling vocal affects and light conspiracy theorizing?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Lodge, 71, a veteran practitioner in this rather arcane field, is a man who’s both exactly what you’d expect him to be and perhaps not what you anticipated.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
My mother had lived with Robbie on and off since she was about sixteen, following every arcane rule the woman laid down, and it’s possible she was secretly happy to see Robbie’s authority challenged.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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