Sentence examples for as a sleight from inspiring English sources

He described it as "a sleight of hand".

The move has been described by some government officials as a "sleight of hand".

The trouble is that many of the most observant Israeli Jews reject this maneuver as a sleight of hand that violates the spirit of the law.

Rather than helping to build trust, the presentation of an alternative ethic may be seen as a sleight of hand that is turned to whenever liberties need to be constrained.

As a sleight-of-hand hustler in "Now You See Me" (2013), he comes off as elusive, almost haughty.

His virtuosity as a sleight-of-hand artist makes one wish that Stradivarius had designed a deck of playing cards, if only so Ricky Jay might perform tricks with it.

James Swain, who came to his expertise on gambling hustles by way of his skills as a sleight-of-hand magician, uses the crooked play of these inspired cheats to pull us into GRIFT SENSE (Pocket Books, $23.95), a flashy, funny novel about a cool scam to break the bank at a Las Vegas casino.

The school board's lawyers characterized this as a sleight-of-hand gesture that resulted in a major change in the law.

Marvel has become expert in using stunningly spiky screenwriting as a deft sleight of hand so that audiences look the other way when confronted with preposterous Norse demi-gods in outlandish costumery, not to mention barmy anthropomorphic space raccoons.

In the future both its budget and the joint security fund is likely to be padded out by moving funds from other government departments; a scenario that Julian Lewis, the Tory chairman of the Commons Defence Select committee has described as a "financial sleight of hand".

(The Saudi banking system, it may be noted, is largely interest-based; some contest the whole notion of "Islamic finance" as a mere sleight of hand, with interest payments called "profit sharing" and interest charges "handling fees").In this section Going up or down?