Sentence examples for bed trick in which from inspiring English sources
The play is at moments a fantasy in which a dream of sexuality and a dream of justice become one and the same, a bed trick in which Angelo is fairly copped.
Like "All's Well That Ends Well," with which it runs in repertory at the Delacorte through the end of July, "Measure for Measure" has a plot that turns on a "bed trick" in which one woman is substituted for another: only more deceit can right wrongs in a world so thoroughly fouled by duplicity.
And the bed trick, in which the heroine gets her maid to stand in for her on her wedding night, becomes a highly lubricious (and well-lubricated) spectacle in which a blindfolded Kobna Holdbrook-Smith and Charlotte Lucas smear each other with jelly.
These include: the use and abuse of lunatics from an asylum; an amorous villain with a repellent skin disease; a violent deflowering of a bride by someone other than the groom; convulsion-inducing potions administered to detect if a woman is a virgin; and a particularly cold-blooded variation on that rotten old chestnut, the bed trick, in which one woman is substituted for another in the dark.
The most difficult scene is probably the bed trick in act four.
She starts stripping the bed, the bed in which someone has just died.
The two types of tricks are grab tricks, in which the board is grabbed in a specific way, or spin tricks, in which the snowboarder spins the board a certain number of degrees.
One of Tallulah's party tricks was to escort guests to the master bedroom, fling back the covers from the bed in which Emery was sleeping, and crow, "Did you ever see a prick as big as that before?" So size mattered, but eventually, in his case, not enough.
Helena's stratagem to resolve this difficulty is the so-called bed trick, substituting herself in Bertram's bed for the arranged assignation and then calling her wayward husband to account when she is pregnant with his child.
Measure for Measure (c. 1603 04) similarly employs the bed trick, and for a similar purpose, though in even murkier circumstances.
