Sentences with phrase «parlor tricks»

The additional features of the S6 Edge seem like marginal parlor tricks — novelties that get old quickly.

The cradle can rotate around and do a series of parlor tricks as it tracks people with the device's front camera.

Dog training isn't just for parlor tricks - it's an essential tool for communicating with your canine friend.

They have been reduced to cheap parlor tricks to present their argument.

In recent discussion of the Weblog 2007 Awards, several commenters at other blogs have argued that our criticisms of the Mannian parlor tricks have been «thoroughly refuted and discarded by climatologists, published in a credible journal»; that «other professionals in the field who also have «looked in great detail at the problem at hand» and have come to the conclusion that rather than McIntyre's findings being «valid and relevant», they instead have found them to be «without statistical and climatological merit»; that CA «fluffed on the whole hockey stick thing».

Oh look, FOMD strips the data of all context then performs parlor tricks, basically doing nothing more than moving the endpoints to the point that makes his argument look the strongest.

My view, at the time, and it's unchanged, was that their report was «schizophrenic»: they agreed with our specific criticisms of Mannian parlor tricks within the body of the report, while at the same time, reporting that there were other proofs that late 20th century climate was paranormal.

I've discussed defects with each of these other parlor tricks on various occasions as well and have observed the singular lack of due diligence by the NAS panel in investigating these supposed evidences of the paranormal.

As to group think, my observation is that history shows, from the stunt that the Skeptical inquirer pulled showing scientists falling for obvious parlor tricks, to eugenics, to Piltdown's long reign, to Lysenkoism, to Eisenhower's farewell warning, that scientists are not immune to any of the foibles of the larger world.

I enjoy the parlor tricks, and I think my cats do too, but that's a low stakes situation.

Get your dog in training class to brush up his manners and teach him a few parlor tricks to impress new friends («high five» etc)

Have a space - themed book launch with rocket cookies, astronaut ice cream, and a scientist - magician hired to do parlor tricks.

Still a disbeliever even as he's traveled all the way to Kathmandu for a cure for his broken body, Strange scoffs at the Ancient One's parlor tricks until she sticks her thumb on his third eye (forehead) and proceeds to blow his mind.

We're familiar with these cheap parlor tricks and we're ready for something new, and all Stiller gives us is a regurgitated mess.

For another thing, Little Sean has some pretty good parlor tricks up the sleeve of his sweat shirt, such as knowing where Big Sean died and on what couch he and Anna once «did it.»

After seeing these natural wonders, the elaborate special effects of such films as The Hulk and The Matrix Reloaded will seem like cheap parlor tricks.

Do not be fooled by these parlor tricks.

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Science experiments shouldn't be mere parlor tricks.

The quietly intense chef might believe in a bit of drama in the dining room, but Nilsson has little time for the parlor tricks of molecular cuisine.

Jesus did not have an original thought to share with mankind and the only proof of his divinity are the claimed cheap parlor tricks he supposedly did.

Even if I were faithful, why would God participate in cheap parlor tricks and not do something awesome like talk to an athiest and change them into a believer?

Miracles weren't really miracles, they were parlor tricks.

Laughing said «So his parlor tricks were for those lucky few who happened to be around and see jesus exercise his god - i - ness.»

Jesus Christ didn't have an original thought in his head, but a book said he did some neat parlor tricks and you think that makes him god...

I'll tell you what... if Copperfield (or anyone else) can publicly die at the hands of impartial (i.e. they don't care who their victim is) professional executioners and then come back to life — showing his injuries, allowing any doubter, named Thomas or otherwise, to place his or her hand in the wounds, then you've got something other than «parlor tricks.»

... Going out and saying I'm going to cut a dividend, make a one - time buyback, these are sort of like parlor tricks, they aren't sustainable.»

These bots essentially perform parlor tricks in which they respond with comments that are loosely related to a particular conversation, but they «can't say anything true about the real world.»

But in medicine, impressive technology is little more than a parlor trick if it doesn't benefit patients — like James (who asked to keep his last name private), a 42 - year - old colon cancer patient who had part of his large intestine removed by Sullivan a few months ago.

To the unfamiliar, lucid dreaming might sound like a parlor trick.

You may think he was not the Son of God, if so I ask you this, would you be willing to be crucified for a «parlor trick»?

Jesus never healed an amputee because the parlor trick that he used to do his supposed «healing», is a widely known scam, practiced to the present day.

This wasn't some parlor trick Jesus was engaging it.

It was six hours before his debut as coach of the New York / New Jersey MetroStars, against the New England Revolution, and he wanted to show his new team a parlor trick.

This, friends, is when nursing a toddler is so much more than a parlor trick, or a hippie choice, or something «those moms» do.

Superconductivity is nature's best parlor trick.

One study analyzes the rubber - hand illusion, an old parlor trick.

Despite the lack of investment from Ikea, self - assembling objects like what Serpe proposed are far from being a parlor trick.

The claim that «juice fasts are a safe and easy way to lose weight» is simply a misrepresentation of weight loss — a parlor trick of sorts, if you will.

Their response is purely based on a parlor trick, and it's very possible they never even looked at your profile or browsed your pictures.

A parlor trick, but the kind — an inquiring jester making his way through the ghosts of cinema's past — that gets Godard at the Moviola to layer Histoire (s) together

His telepathy isn't used as a mere parlor trick but a further way to define him; his ability to see and feel another's thoughts and memories makes him wholly empathetic to others.

The movie isn't an honest account of mourning; it's a narrative parlor trick — an act of sleight of hand that repeatedly calls attention to its own assumed cleverness but that isn't even brave enough to tell us how the trick works.

It's a profound human insight that Potter's comparatively slight effort winds up reducing to a programmatic parlor trick, albeit one executed with a certain tart Buñuelian verve and no shortage of superb acting.

The annoying thing about the film is that whenever we get a chill - inducing moment like a shadow in the background or a figure passing by a mirror, it is immediately followed up by a cheap parlor trick involving a sonic blast of music and an ear - piercing scream.

Genre clichés can be refreshed if an inventive spin is taken, but here, the possession of a red - haired moppet is more silly than creepy, and each time another corpsy specter reveals itself by popping into frame, it isn't so much fearsome as it's just an actor in make - up performing a parlor trick.

Whether the demand for Cross to implement his vast intellectual resources on cue like a cheap parlor trick or the fact that he is able to do so is more ridiculous is debatable.

Even the corniest old gag is enriched by Andersson's unblinking gaze and densely detailed shots: when a joker at a family banquet insists on performing that old parlor trick of yanking the tablecloth out from under the dishes, he not only shatters a huge collection of crystal and china but also reveals a vintage table inlaid with swastikas.

Gobs of power with a social conscience is a neat parlor trick, but what's even better is the best ride this side of a luxury sedan, a surprising feature closely related to McLaren's having leveraged everything it ever learned in F1 racing to make the 12C sing.

Again, this is mostly a parlor trick to impress your friends — particularly those who will thrill to the exhaust backfire that accompanies each shift.