Sentences with word «sleight»

This dismissal of phenylalanine and aspartic acid as significant health hazards is a dangerous bit of sleight of hand.

When a magician fools you with sleight of hand, it is not your vision that is to blame.

O'Connor's lawyer Karl Sleight wrote in a letter to Biben that Teitelbaum, who left office after he was investigated by IG's office during the Troopergate affair, that the SUNY president had been «victimized on multiple occasions» by the commission.

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

If these scientists felt it could be explained away by some sort of statistical sleight of hand they would not have bothered.

Magicians use sleight of hand to confuse you about where an object is.

«Shifting the local cost share to the state is a political sleight of hand — if Republicans steal billions from New York to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy it doesn't matter if taxpayers have to cover the cost at the county or the state level.

Her conceptual expansions of photographic abstraction manifest in series such as Sleight of Hand and Haptic Wonders (both 2011 — ongoing), which primarily focus on the photogram.

Jack Wilder (Franco) makes his living by doing sleight of hand tricks.

Such sleight of hand fits con story American Hustle more snugly, and theres a sense that Russell is here straining to find his film four editors are credited.

Excerpted from Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions, by Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez - Conde, with Sandra Blakeslee, by arrangement with Henry Holt and Company, LLC (US) and Profile Books (UK).

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.

[A] s the details of the plan have emerged, environmental groups and politicians — who applaud Norway's impulse — say the feat relies too heavily on sleight - of - hand accounting and huge donations to environmental projects abroad, rather than meaningful emissions reductions.

I haven't seen the Farrellys» Shallow Hal, but Elizabeth Tamny's review in the November 16, 2001, Reader suggested that it displays a similar sleight of mind regarding fat people: «You get the feeling the movie mops itself into an ideological corner.

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).

This was more than some clever semantic sleight of hand or tongue.

The final images involve great sleight of hand, collapsing the space of the painted and the photographic, suggesting the malleable nature of memory and imagination.

It spans over 30 years of Wegman's Polaroid work and, amongst its many charms, it challenges the viewer with visual sleight of hand.»

You can still see the first teaser trailer for Sleight here, to compare footage from these trailers.

Appendix includes details of simple sleights such as coin vanishes etc..

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

«You need to be a contortionist to get in and skilled at sleight of hand to buckle the safety belts,» Cumberford grumbled.

«Mr. O'Connor is not seeking any preferential treatment,» Sleight wrote in a memorandum filed Friday in state Supreme Court.

Both take way too much verbal sleight of hand.

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.

Not sure whether this is good or not, but I got a response from the great man himself accusing me of «using exactly the same sleight of hand» as Patrick Moore.

It is a shame no new cards that introduced a new summon, spell, or even sleight could have been added.

It's the ultimate marketing sleight - of - hand, and sadly, people are falling for it.

These definitions are not compatible, and conflating them through linguistic sleight is a mistake, because it is fantasy to think that scientists are neutral.

They employ fuzzy math and fiscal sleight of hand to suggest Arizona charter schools are financially advantaged over districts, when the opposite is true.

It's a brilliant sleight of hand: Nothing important seems to be happening, and yet stuff keeps happening, and the movie is always pushing forward.

But the governor only gets there by employing sleight - of - hand — moving some spending off - budget, changing the timing of debt payments, reclassifying other spending.

In fact, consider it one of Mother Nature's best sleight of hand tricks and know that it really is magic.

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.

Perhaps the greatest collaboration from the minds of director Michel Gondry and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (so far), this unique love story is powerfully told through amazing performances and incredible sleight - of - hand visuals.

This latest animated import has some undeniably striking moments, especially in its final act, but it's frustrating in that it often feels too sleight to register as completely as one hopes it would.

Childhood sleights do not roll off their backs.

It made it look as if Bercow and Cameron were in cahoots against Labour - even if this was a very deft sleight of hand from the prime minister.

Getting the bacteria to give up their resistance required some genetic sleight of hand.

Dark matter is not a hunch, nor is it some kind of scientific sleight of hand.

Stephen L. Macknik is a professor of opthalmology, neurology, and physiology and pharmacology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Along with Susana Martinez - Conde and Sandra Blakeslee, he is author of the Prisma Prize - winning Sleights of Mind.

This is more techno - babble with added sleight of hand trying to make a connection to colloidal particles which constitute 5.1 % of the silver.

Auditors and the SEC started digging and found a whole host of shady sales and financial practices that proved Sunbeam's massive turnaround was actually just a series of cynical accounting sleights - of - hand.

Unfortunately for her, you can't trust anything about this film, certainly not the directorial sleights of hand of Soderbergh himself, who, knowing that audiences rely on a movie's tone to tell them how to feel, instills Unsane with a bone - deep sense of uncertainty.

A cross-cut police raid effects a neat editorial sleight - of - hand, just as a late night drug buy proves suitably tense, but as it relentlessly pursues a revenge - narrative showdown we've seen a hundred times before, one can't help but wish such terrific performances had somewhere a little more interesting to go.