Sentence examples for almost a trick of from inspiring English sources

It can seem almost a trick of the mind to remind yourself that England are unbeaten in all qualifiers since a 2009 defeat in Ukraine when Rob Green was sent off and, losing 1-0, Fabio Capello brought on Carlton Cole to try to conjure up a late equaliser.

It made the year drag on, but also caused it to fly by, almost a trick of light.

They have established themselves as the greatest story of Euro 2016 and it feels almost like a trick of the imagination that it is only four years since they were ranked 133rd in the world.

When Garcia and Hernandez match up Tuesday night, it will almost look like a trick of time-lapse photography.

In a trick of almost literary irony, the cholera bacterium itself has been linked to the controversial United Nations stabilization troops who have been the sole force of order in Haiti since 2004, and who are providing security and logistics for the elections.

It was almost a trick shot.

Styled upright to curtail sloshing and spilling, they seem demure, almost too small, but it's a trick of the eye; six ounces turns out to be the golden mean for a cocktail — in fact it makes for a whale of a martini — just enough to not seem stingy, but not so much that it gets warm before you can tip the last drops back.

I place 50p on top of La Gran-mère Gran-mèrend it must have been a trick of the light – she almost seemed to wink.  .

Is it a trick of some sort?

A TRICK OF THE LIGHT, by Louise Penny.

It was a trick of the light.