Sentences with phrase «little sleight»

Then perform a little sleight of hand, Koerner said.

A little sleight of hand in the way it draws attention to such repressive language, whilst opening the broadness of the «coloured people» to become something expansive, rather than stifling.

The trouble is, the way the human brain has evolved over so many thousands of years means that, when we are faced with a difficult question, it will perform a little sleight of hand.

He also pulls off a little sleight of hand to assuage a troubled boy who claims he's been seeing visions of a mule with burning red eyes.

Ultimately, though, he has to perform a little sleight of hand.

Yet (with a little sleight of hand that comes from peeking ahead and thinking of Frye's basic distinction), we can already sense that one text is going to emphasize centrifugal meanings and the other, centripetal meanings.

But then, realizing there was still not enough money for the pool, Moses tried a little sleight of hand.

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She even tries to put a patriotic slant on it, with guttural calls for the strength of the British economy - a political sleight of hand that seems a little cheap and more than a little unfair.

Sleight (Director: JD Dillard, Screenwriters: JD Dillard, Alex Theurer)-- After a young street musician is left to care for his little sister following their mother's passing, he turns to dealing drugs, but quickly runs into trouble with his supplier.

«Sleight» / U.S.A. (Director: JD Dillard, Screenwriters: JD Dillard, Alex Theurer)-- After a young street musician is left to care for his little sister following their mother's passing, he turns to dealing drugs, but quickly runs into trouble with his supplier.

Shyamalan knows that his films are little more than sleight - of - hand tricks performed by a master illusionist, and there - in lies the major problem for this and future enjoyment of his films.

It's a lovely idea, but it's little more than sleight of hand because they failed to reveal they couldn't get books out to market and into readers» hands nor do they market or promote.

This mercenary aspect of text layout is a feature exclusive to physical publishing; there's little chance for such a sleight of hand in producing online texts.

In other words, instead of adjusting the conforming loan limit to reflect what is actually happening in the marketplace, the government is trying to prop - up the housing sector with a little financial sleight - of - hand.

There's a little rhetorical sleight of hand in this statement (which I'm guilty of on occasion in my haste to get a post finished).

The wild card here is whether Warren Lichtenstein will screw us little unitholders with a creeping takeunder at below full value or some other sleight of hand.

And it can not be done with a sleight — of — hand approach, pretending there will be little impact on fossil fuel prices as in the proposed cap — and trade, or with government picking winners as in the would — be «green jobs» program.

Are we not a little bored with nasty little dweebs with negligibly justified complaints, rambling sleights and unctuous self aggrandizements?

However, with a little mathematical sleight of hand capacitors can be treated «just as if they were resistors» in many circumstances and this makes calculations (and thought processes) quite a lot easier.