Sentences with phrase «legerdemain on»

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.

Not exact matches

Still, the pricing legerdemain surrounding the Twitter offering could prove an instructive lesson for small - business owners seeking insight on how to value their own businesses — a task usually accomplished by examining free cash flow.

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.»

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.

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.

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.»

(Just try to save or read that encrypted (drm) file on any other device or e-reader without going through ridculous steps of computer wizardry and legerdemain!)

All I'll say in response is that when one sees a claim that on its face makes no sense, then no amount of mathematical legerdemain is going to make it look any more convincing to anyone with critical thinking skills.