Sentences with phrase «sleight of hand»

A company may be able to fake profits for a while by sleight of hand in the accounting department and they may be able to artificially drive up their stock price as a result, but one thing you simply can not fake is a multi-decade run of dividend increases.

With sleight of hand ease, they can be visually deceptive, but they don't aspire to all out trickery.

Now I'm not advocating using sleight of hand in tackling the issues at your workplace.

But now there is a new kid on the block, Steve Gray (Jim Carrey, pictured right), a badass street illusionist who doesn't so much do sleight of hand as slicing his face to entertain the crowds.

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

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.

There is too much money to be made writing papers that «prove» AGW, and too long a list of sleight of hand tricks played with data, for AGW to be declared the null hypothesis.

By clever sleight of hand AGWSF has created a direct warming from the minus18 °C to 15 °C without any connecting logical process, from beginning with the science fraud that the -18 °C doesn't include absence of our great heavy real gas blanket of nitrogen and oxygen and by removing entirely the Water Cycle.

It's not an insurance policy you collect on either (despite the political sleight of hand which pretends it is).

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.

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.

The main sleight of hand involves the RE statistic.

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).

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.

Much of sleight of hand magic is about misdirecting people about the location of an object, and there is a growing body of psychological research about how magicians cause our minds to override the input of our senses.

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

Rappaports» sleight of hand takes us through soft and hard, transparent and opaque, dark and light, and the material and the spirit — the stuff of transformation.

Finally, there is little that can be done with trickery or sleight of hand through the magic of technology.

Did you see the «60 Minutes» segment a month ago with magician Ricky Jay who, when asked who would be his ideal audience for sleight of hand tricks, said it would be «scientists and Nobel Prize winners,» because they are the most easily fooled.

In short, a financial sleight of hand allow those above the income limits for Roth IRA contributions ($ 199k for married couples in 2018) to still contribute the full $ 5500 each to their Roth IRAs each year.

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

Pretending to change your sex (by the verbal sleight of hand of calling it gender) is REINFORCING gender stereotypes, not breaking them down.

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

In order to work the best way they do, video video games make use of a whole lot of little methods and sleights of hand when you're not wanting.

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.

I always try to translate this marketing sleight of hand into real terms instead of playing their games.

In short, a financial sleight of hand allow those above the income limits for Roth IRA contributions ($ 199k for married couples in 2018) to still contribute the full $ 5500 each to their Roth IRAs each year.

Underscoring the idea that body language facilitates communication as effectively as syntax, Leri successfully imparts emotion in form, and through artistic sleight of hand manages to grant a sense of life to an inanimate slab of steel.

This seems a strange sleight of hand in that other «historical» figures in the show include Alex Katz, Buffet and Polke, all notably senior to Kippenberger.

to fill up a passenger train (my nod to «The Darjeeling Limited «-RRB- and keep any people - watchers entertained, but watch for the deft sleight of hand, as with all Wes Anderson films, there is more going on under the surface than meets the eye.

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.

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 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.

A real sleight of hand, getting the public to trust those altruistic billionaires over those greedy, opportunistic teachers.

Musician Tim agreed that musical performances also require sleight of hand and illusion, saying that most performers he knew were pretty different from their onstage selves.

A consummate artist - cum - cultural impresario, Koons's seamless weaving of conceptual sleight of hand with his signature polished aesthetic is recognized the world over and I can't wait to see what new light this show will shed upon his signature career.»