Sentences with word «legerdemain»

Usually, they are the result of statistical legerdemain.

Being largely unfamiliar with his work, I went into «Cosmopolis» assuming that Cronenberg would work cinematic legerdemain with the actor, as he has done countless times before with dozens of players.

Filling the budget holes of upstate cities can't be done with such legerdemain.

The fiscal legerdemain is likely to trigger even more of a partisan standoff with Congress and darken an already cloudy picture for U.S. researchers who rely on federal funding.

The hot spot of revolution has been re-routed to audience entertainment but can the same cinematic legerdemain do the same with the hot spot issue of male dominance?

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.

Arthur tries to extricate himself from this dilemma through an elaborate feat of linguistic legerdemain.

Otherwise, civility is but liberal legerdemain for the sly stifling of those with whom you disagree.

Reflecting on this piece of hermeneutical legerdemain, a First Things editorial called «The End of Democracy» wondered «whether we have reached or are reaching the point where conscientious citizens can no longer give moral assent to the existing regime.»

My idea was to run in a hand that would provide ammunition for a postgame discussion of bridge legerdemain, whereby declarer avoids one of two «sure» losing trump tricks that are held against him.

We await party consigliere Stanley Schlein's legal legerdemain to bail Mike outta this one.

At the beginning of that fiscal year the Mayor took great credit for having eliminated that projected $ 4.8 billion deficit, but in reality most of it was accomplished by little more than budget legerdemain — re-estimates, adjustments and unspecified «efficiencies.»

From December to March, Cuomo takes bold fiscal actions (tax - hike legerdemain, spending cuts, Tier VI pension reform, delivering on - time state budget, etc..)

Molecular legerdemain can also manipulate just a subset of one type of neuron or control a circuit between groups of selected neurons in, say, the limbic system and others in the cortex.

And in 2015, she cofounded the biotech company eGenesis with her mentor, legendary Harvard bioengineer George Church, with whom she's also worked on trying to resurrect the Ice Age wooly mammoth through genetic legerdemain.

Without some similar legerdemain, fiction writing of any kind would be drearier, if not impossible.

He pointed out that nature, being quantum mechanical, must perform feats of physical legerdemain that could not be described by an ordinary computer, limited to 1s and 0s manipulated in a deterministic, cause - and - effect way.

The legal and emotional fireworks are tremendous and enjoyably surprising, with some wonderful - to - behold strategy and legerdemain executed by the show's current No. 1 and No. 2 scene - stealers: Carrie Preston as the deceptively ditsy - seeming lawyer Elsbeth Tascioni and Emmy - winner Archie Panjabi as sly, sexy Kalinda.

Meanwhie, the application of Van Gogh's own artistry to a work about his life and art reminds one of the (infinitely superior) legerdemain on display in Sunday in the Park with George, the Stephen Sondheim masterwork that deploys musical pointillism in the service of its pointillist subject.

The director, Robert Zemeckis, is experienced with the magic that special effects can do (his credits include the «Back To The Future» movies and «Who Framed Roger Rabbit»), and here he uses computerized visual legerdemain to place Gump in historic situations with actual people.

Rather than accepting this reality and winding down the district, the city's leaders are trying desperately to bail it out, utilizing numerical legerdemain to make the district look better.

Such rhetorical legerdemain may be pleasing to Common Core opponents, who would grasp at anything to justify their cause.

Hooking Up is a chronicle of the here and now, but for dessert it closes with the legendary, never - before - reprinted pieces about The New Yorker and its famously reclusive editor, William Shawn, which early on helped win Wolfe his matchless reputation for reportorial bravura, dead - on insight, and stylistic legerdemain — qualities everywhere evident in this gloriously no - holds - barred, un-put-downable new book.

Yes, Pears handles his vertiginous narrative with remarkable legerdemain, but that's only one part of this novel's appeal.

And White's narrative legerdemain arrives once a paragraph, page after page, description after gorgeous description — spiced up, as well, by some of his wittiest dialogue.

Some of that is just legerdemain, making readers think they've seen more than they have.

A bit of postmodern legerdemain, the masterful article manages to capture the essence of the artist and his art while pretending to never get very far.

John Barth's literary legerdemain John Barth was a big deal in the»60s.

Vaizey's verbal legerdemain was enough to see off many challenges, but perhaps he regrets this surprise claim.

It was written before Chelsea became the commercial hub of the international art scene — note the antiquated nod to SoHo — and before virtual reality became the cultural legerdemain.

The art world is a realm of productive fictions, flights of fantasy, and all - around legerdemain, where value springs from belief and profound truths are often found via circuitous paths.

Still, in the face of the show's undeniable legerdemain, the logical first reaction is: what's not to like?

(v) The justices did not fall into legal error and were commended for refusing to succumb to this kind of forensic legerdemain.

In an op - ed in the New York Times on June 1, she derided the impressive progress made at three public schools as «a triumph of public relations» based on «statistical legerdemain.»

[Most emerging / frontier markets can still avail themselves of this fiscal legerdemain — always easy to make financial promises that mightn't come due for decades, in return for spending & taxes today!

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

In this discussion no such legerdemain is permitted.

Scott is also a pyrotechnician, and his game plans are fireworks displays of multiple shifts, exotic formations, misdirection and legerdemain.

Players and coaches aren't just paying attention, they're already trading stories about Williams's legerdemain.

Thanks to his own mathemagical skills, Gardner, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday in October, presented noteworthy mathematics every month with all the wonder of legerdemain and, in so doing, captivated a huge readership worldwide.

John Alcock suggests that the legerdemain required to bring about the effect may have helped our foremothers distinguish between the sensitive guys who would make good parents and the love -»em - and - leave -»em louts.