Sentences with phrase «like sleight»

In it he describes persuasion as operating very much like sleight of hand magic which, he says, is «exactly what product designers do to your mind.

A murder mystery of sorts, The Family Fang surprises and engrosses without ever feeling like the sleight of hand that made the Fangs famous.

Not exact matches

Even the deus ex machina sleight - of - hand that spirits Paris from the field before Menelaos can finish him off is handled like the dazzling stage effect it is, rather than a verbal formula.

As he describes his life, it sounds like a Vegas floor show, complete with Bobby Berosini and his dancing orangutans, Sigfried and Roy and a naked sleight - of - hand artist.

When a veteran like Balls complains about his adversary using a «sleight of hand» approach, you know the excuses are being rolled out.

A toothpick floating in mid-air without any support — this may sound like it involves hidden threads, magnets or other sleight - of - hand tricks from magicians.

Paul Newman and Robert Redford shine together in this brilliant and hugely amusing caper film that offers us, among many notable qualities, a marvelous production design and an ingenious (and unpredictable) plot that plays like a refined sleight - of - hand trick.

And yet the final act feels like a cop - out, resolved with a magical - realist sleight of hand that cheats the viewer of a proper resolution while pushing the characters to the limits of credibility.

The sleight of hand that is the purview of the director of «Hyperlink Cinema» (Roger Ebert's term) then starts to look like self - abuse.

As the picture lumbers along, shedding sense and invention and gaining an army of the stupid robots from I, Robot that function like the stupid robots from Episode I, it becomes clearer that Total Recall doesn't have anything up its sleeve besides that one sleight of hand.

Like many in the film distribution business, Mimi Steinbauer has a story — «funniest example ever» — of the ingenious sleight of hand in marketing American movies to foreign lands.

Low budget films like Chronicle and Sleight have put fresh spins on the concept of super-powered people in years past.

Jacob Latimore, «Sleight» - After holding his own opposite veteran co-stars like Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett in «Black Nativity,» Latimore graduated to supporting roles in box office hits such as «Ride Along» and «The Maze Runner.»

Hunt — who also directed «Frozen River» and a couple episodes of «Law and Order: Special Victims Unit» — relies on that perception to lull us into a sense of complacency, like an up - close magician performing sleight of hand.

(While this sounds like financial sleight of hand, forward agreements are common in the industry and not a cause for concern.)

Since your equity is real money, scammers would like to get their hands on it and they'll make outrageous promises; using sleight of hand to do so.

For all their mystery, for all the taciturnity of their refusal, these paintings lodge the totality of their effect in a sleight of hand through which the material surface of the picture appears to be supplanted by an optical membrane: a resonant film that seems the very envelope of vision, like the blackness you «see» when you shut your eyes.

His knife see rustic Labour dight, An» cut you up wi» ready sleight, Trenching your gushing entrails bright, Like ony ditch; And then, O what a glorious sight, Warm - reekin, rich!

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.

Like all the so called «proofs» for for AGW / CAGW, you have to condone science fraud and sleights of hand which is the only way that it can be «shown».

The rest of the fake fisics it produces is all tweaked real world physics and is like this, sleights of hand which have created a completely imaginary world with its own brand of fisics impossible in the real world.

You might not like, because you do understand what I'm saying, my presenting the fake fisics sleights of hand by comparing the Greenhouse Effect claims with real world physics, but tough.

This scaremongering claim by Gore is a perfect example of what presenter Marc Morano means by the «Climate Hustle»: just like in a card game where tricksters use sleight - of - hand, distraction techniques, and dirty tricks in order to con the mark (the mug punter) out of his money, so the alarmist establishment is withholding key details and presenting false or distorted information in order to extract vast sums from the gullible public.

The context being the point I'm making that the Greenhouse Effect is built on science fraud by sleight of hand changes to real physics, the ideal gas / real gas is just one example — the real world around us is nothing like it is depicted in the AGW GHE..

Otherwise you look like you're bucking resume writing convention in order to hide something, which you probably are, but you have to do it with a better sleight of hand than that.

Lamb, a well - known and credible researcher (although he has written soft papers like this article all too often since, apparently, being given fatherhood promotion marching orders from the federal government), squirrels out of being called on his sleight of hand by setting up as his precursor alibi, that he did this in this article in this way (without citation to supportive research findings) in order to «facilitate readability» and that «readers can study the cited articles for references to the primary literature.»