Sentences with phrase «sleight of hand in»

And he used a bit of «chartmanship» sleight of hand in his Fig. 5 — instead of showing the 2001 - 2013 extended period of cooling, he broke it into two cooling periods, 2002 - 2008 and 2009 - 2013, to make the «pause» seem shorter and more in line with earlier short periods of cooling.

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.

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.

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 mercenary aspect of text layout is a feature exclusive to physical publishing; there's little chance for such a sleight of hand in producing online texts.

Like many in the film distribution business, Mimi Steinbauer has a story — «funniest example ever» — of the ingenious sleight of hand in marketing American movies to foreign lands.

«I try to stay away from sleight of hand in the campaigns I work on, which is made easier by good candidates that you can believe in.»

It was the most dishonourable and deceitful sleight of hand in modern British politics, I would contend.

Here's how the office of Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli described this sleight of hand in a report this April [PDF]:

Anyone, and this includes many Israelis and American Jews, who has looked closely at the history of Palestine realizes the sleight of hand in this presentation.

This is disguised from some by his sleight of hand in contending that «gay marriage» would bring homosexual excesses under the domesticating influence of a conventional institution.

They introduce invidious discriminations and encourage sleight of hand in creating sundry forms of «diversity» other than diversity of thought.

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

Not exact matches

But Item 19 is often calculated with a sleight of hand that would make a magician proud, with the numbers spun to put the system in the best possible light.

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 yeaIn 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 yeain 2018) to still contribute the full $ 5500 each to their Roth IRAs each year.

The electronic media do not owe their irresistible power to any sleight - of - hand but to the elemental power of deep social needs which come through even in the present depraved form of these media.

I am convinced that most of the big theological debates in church history are a result of theological sleight of hand.

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.

In what amounts to a corporate sleight of hand, they can reapply if they accept pay cuts of up to 65 %

He showed him every sleight - of - hand and trick in his remarkable repertoire, and it was enough to win on every judge's card.

A similar political sleight - of - hand could be accomplished if Rangel files petitions and then declines the nomination, enabling his committee on vacancies to select a candidate to run in his stead.

But that has provoked a counter executive sleight of hand — even if very noble in the circumstance — that purports the Constitution does not require Magu's confirmation, even if the EFCC Act says so.

But it appears that Blake could be accused of a kind of trickery and sleight of hand of his own in order to establish a NYS residency.

And the same Osborne hallmarks of «jam tomorrow» and sleight of hand are apparent in the treatment of the budget for of National Assembly.

With a sleight of hand, however — the major grouse of Harold Smith's revolt and anger in Blue Collar Lawman, his unpublished book — the British turned things round for the North.

Some campaigners suggested the reforms were mere sleight of hand, questioning whether the prime minister would actually succeed in establishing a blanket default - on approach.

But I remain unconvinced by your article, because it sought first to uncharitably discredit the CutTaxTo10p.com campaign, with a linguistic sleight of hand, and then somewhat ducked the central point of this debate, which Nigel Lawson understood in the 1980s.

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.

A toothpick floating in mid-air without any support — this may sound like it involves hidden threads, magnets or other sleight - of - hand tricks from magicians.

In quantum systems, where the properties of an object, including its location, can vary depending on how you observe them, such feats should be possible without sleight of hand.

[Response: All the pdfs are skewed — but using the mode to compare to the mean in previous work is just a sleight of hand to make the number smaller.

Paul Newman and Robert Redford shine together in this brilliant and hugely amusing caper film that offers us, among many notable qualities, a marvelous production design and an ingenious (and unpredictable) plot that plays like a refined sleight - of - hand trick.

Dealt Not Rated Rotten Tomatoes Score: 95 % Available on Disc and Streaming For decades, Richard Turner has been one of the premier up close magicians at the infamous Magic Castle in Hollywood, wowing audiences with his unbelievable sleight of hand.

Whether the film would work with a straightforward timeline is uncertain, but Muccino's decision works in the film's favour — by encouraging a guessing game it conceals the problems of its plot in a sleight of hand magic trick.

'' «Such pure popcorn that it is, the racial sleight of hand almost hides in plain sight.

Each of these films, in its own way, bears the unmistakable imprint of its director, whether the exploration of identity and representation in «Black Panther,» the genre sleight - of - hand in «Last Jedi,» the liberating optimism of «Wonder Woman,» the absurdist humor of «Ragnarok» or the intense character drama of «Logan.»

Magicians aren't supposed to reveal their secrets, but this compelling documentary provides plenty of insight into the life and career of Richard Turner, a «card mechanic» who has become one of the most respected sleight - of - hand artists in the world despite being totally blind.

In addition to liner notes by British film critic Jason Solomons and a feature - length audio commentary track with writer Lothian and director Metzstein, there's the movie's theatrical trailer, a single deleted scene and a couple of featurettes in which Lance and Cilenti showcase two respective bits of sleight - of - hand that their characters emploIn addition to liner notes by British film critic Jason Solomons and a feature - length audio commentary track with writer Lothian and director Metzstein, there's the movie's theatrical trailer, a single deleted scene and a couple of featurettes in which Lance and Cilenti showcase two respective bits of sleight - of - hand that their characters emploin which Lance and Cilenti showcase two respective bits of sleight - of - hand that their characters employ.

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.

The pair showed off sleight - of - hand tricks on the red carpet outside the Vue cinema in London's Leicester Square.

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.

In total, algorithm - based decision - making pulls off much of its magic through the sleight - of - hand of simplification.

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.

They include exploiting pattern recognition, understanding some basic tenets of human psychology (i.e., if you're involved in the trick, you're more likely to believe it), and combining two tricks to hide critical sleights of hand.

The only way to accomplish this sleight of hand was to pursue a skillful public relations campaign that drummed in the message, over and over, that our public schools are failures, that these failures harm our children and threaten our nation's future prosperity.

Malloy, come and see the nasty sleight - of - hand whereby Steven Adamowski fits two schools into one in Windham — to the discomfort and misery of both.

Audiences are confronted with clichés, distortions, and brilliant sleights of hand that force us to go beyond the lampoon and shift the lens through which we perceive race in order to confront our own bias.

And would any statistical sleight of hand to correct for «missing data» stand up in court against a teacher who was fired or a school that was taken over by the state for a «turn around»?

And we're not talking sleight of hand, we're talking about the kind of magic that Apple manufactures: the magic that happens when you watch science fiction turn into reality right in front of you.

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