Some are tales of pure nostalgia or arcane technical debate.

The day was filled with the maneuvering and arcane debate over the intricacies of state election law that have become as identified with Florida as orange juice once was.

With a wave of corporate lobbying aimed at preserving the current system of accounting for options, the administration has waded cautiously into the arcane debate.

Engineers have been holding these arcane debates for years.

Nathan and Ross also cut through the arcane debate over the actual size of the Chinese military budget to demonstrate just how severely limited Beijing's current capabilities are.

What might appear to be an arcane bureaucratic debate is actually substantive, United Nations officials stressed.

While this may seem an arcane debate between the Senate and the White House, it is being viewed seriously in capitals around the world.

In particular, he discussed the arcane, emotion-charged debate about the origins of the sandwich, usually without taking a definite stand.

While the literature on the unit root hypothesis may consist of arcane debate on statistical methods, the hypothesis carries significant practical implications for economic forecasts and policies.

It respects the play, but it doesn't provide any new material for arcane debates on what it all means.