Sentences with phrase «intellectual legerdemain»

But if stark dishonesty were the only problem with NOW's piece, it would merely take its place in the voluminous annals of feminist intellectual legerdemain.

This restriction required justification that created a bizarre and intellectual legerdemain.

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Finally, Prof. Johnson praises me for my citation of Cardinal Newman's deft description of secular intellectuals («They persuade the world of what is false by urging upon it what is true») and claims that his own work as a Christian apologist does battle against this very legerdemain.