(1) Pointing out that “the army has its own fortune teller”, he sounds less than happy at the state of affairs: “The country is run by superstition.” Weerasethakul is in a relatively fortunate position, in that his arcane films are not exactly populist and don’t depend on the mainstream Thai film industry for funding, but he has become cast as a significant voice of dissent in a difficult time .
(2) The arcane nature of physics calls for some imagination when it comes to naming particles.
(3) Arcane though names such as Ro, La, Sm and Jo-1 may appear, much is now known about the intracellular targets of the antibodies; most are enzymes or particles active in DNA replication and the synthesis of RNA and protein.
(4) Milk texture talk quickly becomes arcane, with terms like frothing, stretching and the all-important microfoam.
(5) The arcane wiring when electricity came along, the subsequent clumsy rewiring; the cheap flat conversion in the 1960s; the constant saga of patch and mend from occupants who never have the money or vision to remake the whole thing from scratch - all this, and more, was paralleled on the WCML on an enormous scale.
(6) This partly explains the higher infection rate among Maasai livestock but the low human infection rate remains arcane and requires further study.
(7) "But the danger always is that the debate becomes very quickly polarised between one side which says this is the moment to rush headlong towards further integration, new treaties, new intergovernmental conferences, new arcane debates about EU powers, and another side that says this is the moment to unravel the whole thing.
(8) It's partly to do with the fact that kids are more sophisticated, especially linguistically, then they used to be, so to do a show that is clever and funny and uses arcane references but can play to adults and children is more possible now.
(9) Furthermore, it emphasizes method rather than arcane knowledge and illustrates the approaches to problems and the kinds of thinking that a liberal education should cultivate: the scientific method, analogic thinking, deductive reasoning, problem solving within constraints, and concern for aesthetic values.
(10) With his moral authority and charisma, the pope has helped reframe climate change from an arcane set of negotiations into an issue with sweeping moral implications.
(11) Even if some unease about the hiving off of public services prevails, maybe all those acronyms and contractual complexities made it too arcane to compete with broad brush concerns like equality and climate change.
(12) Nothing is too odd, too arcane, or too outre (I’ve not researched the tie-in adult sex-toy angle, but I’ll bet there is one) to have the Star Wars logo plastered across it.
(13) But while she has set herself such arcane formal constraints, much of the novel's appeal lies in the fact that it is a compulsive thriller.
(14) This is not some arcane dry and dusty subject,” Cameron said at his closing press conference.
(15) Among the problems in this area have been the lack of a theoretical base for taxonomic categories of behavior, overlapping categories, the arcane nature of many disciplinary taxonomies, and lack of rigorous operational definitions for measurements.
(16) Even more esoterically, it ran a specialist indie page: this when “indie” didn’t mean Oasis filling stadiums and the Arctic Monkeys breaking sales records, but music of an unbelievably arcane stripe.
(17) The immediate focus of the dispute is an arcane point of law.
(18) Partly inspired by the soundtracks to arcane horror movies, it's a meticulously constructed, cinematic work that moves from eerie paranoia to tentative optimism, painting vivid mental pictures as it goes.
(19) ARCANE's referential is based on conceptual slicing close to SNOMED's.
(20) Flash Boys follows the usual Lewis formula: find a scandalous situation that is too arcane for most people to comprehend; locate some smart guys (they are usually male) who have spotted the scam and plan to do something with or about it; and tell their story.
Uncanny
Definition:
(a.) Not canny; unsafe; strange; weird; ghostly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hamilton said it was uncanny to find themselves in another desperate emergency situation almost exactly one year on.
(2) Many claims made against them echo with uncanny precision those once made against Jews and Catholics.
(3) Here, too, Capote displayed uncanny journalistic skills, capturing even the most languid and enigmatic of subjects – Brando in his pomp – and eliciting the kinds of confidences that left the actor reflecting ruefully on his "unutterable foolishness".
(4) Not only were all the paraphernalia and substances depicted with uncanny accuracy rare on television but the reactions of the drugged executives were also utterly credible.
(5) The English riots were described as a tidal wave of copycat disorder that swept across towns and cities with uncanny repetition.
(6) As a portrait of modern society, it is startlingly astute – a scene with two schoolgirls arguing at a bus stop is uncanny in its depiction of south London slang, and speech mannerisms, and all the more notable because this is so rarely done accurately and with empathy.
(7) "But am I alone in thinking that David Moyes is beginning to bear an uncanny resemblance to Frank Spencer?"
(8) Although the soloists change, the basic orchestration continues creating an uncanny sense of déjà entendu.
(9) GP Sounders stuck in the long grass There’s something uncanny about watching games this year at CenturyLink Field, replete with freshly laid field turf of the variety Portland Timbers also use (though you suspect that wasn’t considered as a particularly attractive selling point by the Sounders hierarchy).
(10) Resulting from old cleaning ceremonies and preventing or treating uncanny effects in children, it was been usual to lick forehead of newborn and children crosswise.
(11) Of course the Sunday People couldn't help investigate some of these claims and took "The Test in Bucharest" – they managed to find "a dead ringer for Pippa" and a young woman with "an uncanny likeness to Kate", both of whom had "excellent English".
(12) Bacillus Calmette-Guérin has demonstrated an uncanny capacity for effectiveness as therapy for human diseases.
(13) But while he has shown an uncanny ability to be flexible – in recent weeks he has softened his rhetoric dramatically – few believe he will be able to change enough to satisfy creditors when debt-stricken Athens re-engages in gruelling negotiations to stay afloat.
(14) They call it the “uncanny valley” – the point at which humans become uneasy at a robot’s humanness.
(15) Tom Watson is a formidable political operator with an uncanny knack for being at the centre of Labour party dramas.
(16) When it was opened more than a century ago, however, the Chhatrapati Shivaji railway terminus, which bears an uncanny resemblance to London's St Pancras, was the T2 of its time.
(17) Some way further down the list is Woodford Investment Management, run by Neil Woodford, a figure held in awe in London for his uncanny ability to make money.
(18) Blair has long been fascinated by the "uncanny" parallels between New Labour and the Liberal Party of Campbell-Bannerman and Asquith (his summer reading in 1996, during a holiday at Geoffrey Robinson's Tuscan villa, was George Dangerfield's classic The Strange Death of Liberal England).
(19) Although his playing days with Chelsea and Tottenham are long over, the uncanny knack of undoing Newcastle has clearly survived Poyet's transition from pitch to technical area undiminished.
(20) Reading between the lines, in the context of the Spurs' almost uncanny teamwork in these last two games, what James is really telling his team-mates is that they have to be more like the Spurs.