Sentences with phrase «clever sleight of hand»

Smithee is a text; his words are fed to him by a teleprompter, but his delivery is at times self - aware, as if the persona that he is condemned to inhabit might be overcome by the performer's clever sleight of hand and agency.

But Leifsdottir uses some clever sleight of hand to make this top work - ready: underneath the lace is a flesh - tone lining.

As with the rest of the AGWScienceFiction Greenhouse Effect, your link takes to a page of more joke fake fisics from august bodies of science conned by magic tricks of clever sleights of hand and word play, here's a better link:

The discussion I had recently about this had been irritating, so many examples in my research which showed the faked Hockey Stick cause was alive and well and now not just eliminating the warmer periods like the MWP and Roman, but taking it even further back and ludicrously even positing that temps now were rising higher than at any time in the Holocene, but the 6/7, 000 year had been a first step to this, eliminating the Holocene Maximum by clever sleights of hand and word play.

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Deceivers # 1: This new series, written by Steven Grant of 2 Guns fame, promises a lot: It's billed as a «globetrotting espionage action / comedy populated by charming, clever characters and thrilling sleight of hand.»

gbaikie — perhaps it is only those who have a grounding in real world physics who can see how clever the tweaks of the sleights of hand, this is not something created out of ignorance, regardless how many in ignorance repeat the memes..

You must search for that word, that verb, that adjective, and never be content with an approximation, never resort to tricks, even clever ones, and never have recourse to verbal sleight - of - hand to avoid a difficulty.