Sentences with phrase «linguistic sleight»

A Linguistic Sleight of Hand But, just as «sustainability» can be watered down until it becomes unsustainable, resilience can also be misused and abused.

But I remain unconvinced by your article, because it sought first to uncharitably discredit the CutTaxTo10p.com campaign, with a linguistic sleight of hand, and then somewhat ducked the central point of this debate, which Nigel Lawson understood in the 1980s.

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This contains a wonderful piece of sleight of hand, and a couple of pieces of subtle linguistic misdirection, to show that the impossible is really occurring right in front of your eyes.