Sentence examples for a trickery from inspiring English sources

Instead, the "just-a-dream" device is pulled again and again, a trickery that works against the reader's trust.

With a little trickery and a solid performance by the Collins-led starting offense, Tennessee opened the preseason with a 21-18 victory.

Mr Francis has never forgiven Archer for a little trickery over a TV project that ended with the producer's humiliation at a party in the millionaire's penthouse apartment overlooking parliament.

When a team only has seven tenths of a second to score, sometimes it takes a little trickery to pull off a game-winning shot.

By far the best is the unusually long La Farce de maistre Pierre Pathelin (c. 1465; Master Peter Patelan, a Fifteenth-Century French Farce), a tale of trickery involving a sly lawyer, a dull-witted draper, and a crafty shepherd.

These reports often claim that it is a trivial task to take a banned drug and, with a little molecular trickery, get a Chinese lab to produce a new, legal version.

Although he is playing a simple comic stereotype — the Irish loafer with a gift for trickery and a weakness for whiskey — Mr. Norton is such a fine actor that Finian never comes across as a twinkly, synthetic cartoon.

Well crafted, sir. Leo follows up with a little word trickery, replacing a common expletive with a funnier common expletive.

She used a little trickery".

And the story's conclusion has a slick trickery that elides some of the complexities of her character.

Don't need it now, just a little trickery for my brain.