Sentences with phrase «verbal sleight»

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.

You must search for that word, that verb, that adjective, and never be content with an approximation, never resort to tricks, even clever ones, and never have recourse to verbal sleight - of - hand to avoid a difficulty.

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

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Even the deus ex machina sleight - of - hand that spirits Paris from the field before Menelaos can finish him off is handled like the dazzling stage effect it is, rather than a verbal formula.

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.

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