Sentences with phrase «legerdemain with»

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

And sure enough he managed to do so, with all the deftness of Paul Daniels doing a card trick (in his pre-bandsaw days), nay with the dazzling legerdemain of a balloon dancer hiding her rude bits at Madame Jo - Jos.

I can't begin to imagine what a frank, honest, apolitical climate scientist or physicist would have to say about all the assumptions and statistical legerdemain that goes into coming up with such precise «measurements» of global average sea level.

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.