More than one early-rising (or late-to-bed) palace functionary had passed through the garden to find the chancellor muttering to himself, debating some arcane point.

One focus of the debate has been the legal status of the German-Polish border, an arcane point of international law revived by right-wing politicians last spring.

They questioned her endlessly on seemingly arcane points of grammar and she answered as best she could based on the context in which she'd seen the various symbols used.

Is this simply an arcane historical point of little relevance today?

His realm is the arcane point where technology and mystery, science and horror, meet.

This is not a case that the court agreed to consider because it wanted to refine some arcane point of federal-state relations.

In an interview with Richard Danzig, a former secretary of the Navy, about the bioterrorism threat, we came to an arcane point of military strategy.

"But mine mostly involves research and discovery rather than, say, blowing up random Cardassians to make some arcane political point."

During the 1960's, Mr. Brando became progressively disenchanted with acting and began to choose his roles to make sometimes arcane political points.

It is on such arcane points that the nation's trading future may be determined.