Sentences with phrase «sleight of hand as»

But shrug, since you don't think heat is heat which is thermal infrared radiation you won't be able to spot these sleights of hand as easily as I now can, I've had rather a lot of practise in the last few years.

Myrrh: «But shrug, since you don't think heat is heat which is thermal infrared radiation you won't be able to spot these sleights of hand as easily as I now can, I've had rather a lot of practise in the last few years.»

Not exact matches

Usually an astute group of naysayers will select one or the other to put forward, but I have seen both used almost simultaneously in what can only be admired as sleight - of - hand in service of going nowhere.

There is a strange sleight of hand here as a great achievement is now redefined as a minimum requirement for Arsene to keep his job.

As he describes his life, it sounds like a Vegas floor show, complete with Bobby Berosini and his dancing orangutans, Sigfried and Roy and a naked sleight - of - hand artist.

Speaking on Adom FM's «Badwam» morning show, the Npp financier said, over the years politicians have used fake employment figures and statistical sleight of hand to protect themselves from the angry mob of voters and sees what the Agric Minister has put out as one of such wicked tricks.

As word spread that RHIC had created a quark - gluon fluid, Son and a number of other theorists began to wonder if they could use Maldacena's sleight of hand and substitute the equations of a black hole for the ones normally applied to quarks and gluons.

To most ordinary people and also quite a lot of geneticists, it is a sleight of hand that is as illogical as it is unethical.

A tricksy combination of documentary, discourse and sleight of hand, F for Fake is as elusive as it is playful.

Bonham Carter playing wicked Bellatrix as (badly) impersonated by upright Hermione is a wonderful piece of actorly sleight - of - hand; I almost believed I was looking at a digitally altered Emma Watson.

An ordinary private eye finds himself on a twisting, turning roller - coaster ride to hell when he enters the nightmarish world of a powerful, evil sorcerer masquerading as a sleight - of - hand magician and the murderous cultists that surround him.

Jim Phelps (Jon Voight) leads a team that uses high - tech computer skills as well as sleight of hand, drugs and whatever else is necessary to keep the Free World free.

As self - conscious narration and clumsy dialogue constantly draws attention to the techniques of sleight of hand and misdirection, it is impossible not to be cognisant of the filmmaker's own preference for both.

As the picture lumbers along, shedding sense and invention and gaining an army of the stupid robots from I, Robot that function like the stupid robots from Episode I, it becomes clearer that Total Recall doesn't have anything up its sleeve besides that one sleight of hand.

And no, «Wonderstruck» isn't as magical as it would need to be to pull off the sleight - of - hand that Haynes is attempting.

««Wonderstruck» isn't as magical as it would need to be to pull off the sleight - of - hand that Haynes is attempting,» wrote TheWrap from Cannes.

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.

Stealing the show are the Four Horsemen themselves Jesse Eisenberg as illusionist Daniel Atlas, Woody Harrelson as hypnotist Merritt McKinney, Dave Franco as sleight of hand expert Jack Wilder, and newest member Lizzy Caplan as Lula who replaces Isla Fisher from the first movie.

With only one actual bonus feature to speak of — the six - part behind - the - scenes featurette «The Director's Notebook: The Cinematic Sleight of Hand — and a glorified photo gallery («The Art of The Prestige») acting purely as supplemental fodder, I feel genuinely cheated by the lack of behind - the - scenes material included in this single - disc effort.

We have a number of thrills in store for you over the next two days as our illusionists, our magicians, our sleight - of - hand artists weave their spells to delight and captivate you.

Deceivers # 1: This new series, written by Steven Grant of 2 Guns fame, promises a lot: It's billed as a «globetrotting espionage action / comedy populated by charming, clever characters and thrilling sleight of hand.»

But some of this sleight of hand with sales numbers has to help Amazon, as well.

Casting MAP and MRP policies as something of a Trojan horse, Frattini suggests that these policies could be construed as «sleight of hand» that diverts brick - and - mortar retailers» attention away from the attractive wholesale pricing that pet food manufacturers are offering to online retailers.

Using distraction Much as magicians use sleight of hand to hide their tricks, so dog owners practice the art of distraction to take their dog's mind off of their fear.

Backwards compatibility is nice and all, but the idea that it can make up for these new consoles coming out rapidly with games that don't work — or don't work as well — on older hardware and somehow keep everyone included is just some marketing sleight of hand.

The second is of artist as magician, conjuring life in paint with a vaudevillian sleight of hand.

Smithee is a text; his words are fed to him by a teleprompter, but his delivery is at times self - aware, as if the persona that he is condemned to inhabit might be overcome by the performer's clever sleight of hand and agency.

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.

When seen in concert with these images, the otherwise unadorned furniture objects become imbued with new formal potential, as if by sleight of hand, ready to re-enter domestic spaces with a newly aesthetic agenda.

Mikula describes «Photo Book» as «having an implied narrative, using common childhood ideas that hold incredible power — an unmoored house, the sleight - of - hand quality of a rabbit in our growing - up stories.

I'm interested in pairing these two opposites again — this idea of the sleight of hand and this sort of off - handedness, where it seems seamless, and it's almost as if I'm trying to make one continuous long gesture.

Warhol's obsessive cataloging in the diaries and his genre - bending and sleight - of - hand banalities in The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975) feel intimately linked to Kraus's writing, as well as to Wayne Koestenbaum's Hotel Theory (2007) and Andy Warhol (2001) biography for the Penguin Lives series, and to the novel Reena Spaulings (2005) by the artist - collective Bernadette Corporation.

I have explained the trick creating the illusion of the «Greenhouse Effect of 33 °C warming by greenhouse gases» which anyone with even half a brain could follow, as well as giving some other examples of the fake fisics created to hide this sleight of hand, and all the response I get is silence or verbal diarrhoea as distraction.

As with the rest of the AGWScienceFiction Greenhouse Effect, your link takes to a page of more joke fake fisics from august bodies of science conned by magic tricks of clever sleights of hand and word play, here's a better link:

Now, as I have trying to explain the sleights of hand, that wiki division into uv / visible / infrared does not say it relates directly to whatever else it gives on that page.

As I've shown conclusively in deconstructing the sleight of hand creating the fictional «Greenhouse Effect», this isn't based on real world physics, but on manipulating the terms and processes and properties of real physics basics.

As masters of deception, magicians fall into two categories, those who admit it's all mirrors and sleight - of - hand, and those who insist the magic is real so as not to undermine the illusioAs masters of deception, magicians fall into two categories, those who admit it's all mirrors and sleight - of - hand, and those who insist the magic is real so as not to undermine the illusioas not to undermine the illusion.

If you're calculating that as AGWSF teaches you to calculate by the sleight of hand planckian graphic that the 300 mile wide visible layer atmosphere around the Sun defines its heat, then you get the fake fisics meme of 6,000 °C.

Anyway, as I said, you are all so brainwashed by these AGWSF sleights of hand that you actually believe that our blazing hot Star the Sun millions of degrees C hot, doesn't give off any heat!

Just as the real gases of nitrogen and oxygen and carbon dioxide have been replaced by sleight of hand by the real world physics imaginary «ideal gas», without mass therefore not subject to gravity and without weight, and without volume and attraction, which means, their Greenhouse Effect atmosphere is empty space, which is why they have no sound.

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.

I'm trying to point out how AGW fisics is created by sleights of hand by tweaking real physics and promoted as «real world» by manipulating those taught this by giving them even more stupid reasons which they give as rebuttals, which they can't see are stupid because they don't known the real world physics which shows how stupid the rebuttals.

As with the second law arguments, one has to know quite a bit of detail to see where they have tweaked real physics to create their sleight of hand explanations.

I don't see it as sleight of hand.

AGWSF Greenhouse Effect fisics is created by sleights of hand, by tweaking real physics, one of the techniques used in this con is to play on word meaning, as I gave example in its use of the word «absorbed», this is deliberately done to confuse further; another is juxtaposition of real physics facts next to word play sleight of hand or a meme from AGWSF.

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.

This sleight of hand has taken the difference between -18 °C of the Earth without any atmosphere at all and the 15 °C of our atmosphere as we have it, and attributed the difference to the imaginary supermolecule properties of our beloved carbon dioxide, without ever giving any details of how this wonderfood for plants and oxygen transporter for our blood can raise the temp of the Earth 33 °C from -18 to +15..?

A Linguistic Sleight of Hand But, just as «sustainability» can be watered down until it becomes unsustainable, resilience can also be misused and abused.

An example of what I refer to as» verbal sleight of hand» is to tout the large number of separate databases in one's collection, creating a sense that there is more data than in fact there is.

Rationalizations and verbal «sleight of hand» are employed to make it seem as if CANLII offers the researcher everything needed to conduct legal research.