arcanity

Example Sentences

• "Whatever physician has not this element of fire in its arcanity—if I may coin that word—cannot boast that he is a true and tried physician."
• "Arcanity, if there is such a noun, is not a deliberate concealment."
• "Length, arcanity and just plain dullness of some of the festival fare of foreign films certainly provide some cerebral exercise for audiences."
• "If thou’rt puzzled, go anywhere, / Seek priests or prophets, doctors for the brain, / I venture none of them can e’er explain / This love’s arcanity: like holy God / That’s three in one, ’t is more than something odd."
• "As moderns, we have a highly developed sense of the futility, even more, of the immorality of any effort to rehabilitate the pre-Enlightenment outlook. We cannot but reject at heart its capricous mysticism, its violence, its arcanity. Our sympathy with science is thus well-founded in a belief in our humanity and it is this which discourages us from embarking upon any serious revolt."
• "Here, purged of much of its arcanity and rendered in a native tradition of muckraking or investigative journalism, is the critique of Marcuse’s work in the 1960s."