Sentences with phrase «performing sleight»

All of these currently existing security measures can be circumvented without severing limbs or performing any sleight of hand.

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.

2 Then they will perform a sleight of hands by using some of the cash to buy 1 to 3 players and bank the rest (profit).

Padres cutup Doug Bochtler performs sleight - of - tongue in 1997.

Not exact matches

Blatt's group and a team headed by David Wineland of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, independently performed this physics sleight of hand.

They are no more than literary devices, the sleight of hand the writer has to perform to make it possible to write about something that interests him.

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

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.

But one of the greatest sleights of hand critics perform is conflating, or at least failing to articulate, that a decrease in reported income does not equal the actual tax dollars NYS loses.

Adamowski is a «reformer,» and he is willing to perform reformer sleights - of - truth in order to make his reforms work.

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.

Amy Adler, 37, performs similar sleight - of - hand with her large - format Cibachromes.

Then perform a little sleight of hand, Koerner said.