Sentences with phrase «accounting sleights»

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The movie isn't an honest account of mourning; it's a narrative parlor trick — an act of sleight of hand that repeatedly calls attention to its own assumed cleverness but that isn't even brave enough to tell us how the trick works.

[A] s the details of the plan have emerged, environmental groups and politicians — who applaud Norway's impulse — say the feat relies too heavily on sleight - of - hand accounting and huge donations to environmental projects abroad, rather than meaningful emissions reductions.

Our methodology is a strict accounting that doesn't allow these sleights - of - hand that abound in energy system analyses based on the analyst's particular agenda.