So those are just some little brief tricks of that trade.
With currencies in a tailspin and economic growth rates diminishing, some former enthusiasts now argue that the "miracle" was merely an impressive but brief confidence trick.
He would be back after a few hours' sleep, changed into his traveling uniform of crisp white T-shirt and blue-and-green windbreaker, for a stand-up briefing that would range from the details of China's nuclear deterrent to developments in Israel, managing the seasoned briefer's trick of breaking no news while not sounding canned.
KDP Select isn't amazingly valuable but it does allow you to "give away" your book for a brief period – a trick that used to get Indie fiction to the top of Amazon's bestseller lists (but no longer) – and set up pre-orders.
Brief Encounter used this trick, on a different timescale, with its masterful weaving-in of Rachmaninov's second piano concerto.
Already one of the most fascinating figures in the history of popular fiction, JK Rowling has become even more intriguing with this brief but neat vanishing trick.
In fact, he has argued the opposite — that a brief strike will do the trick of teaching the Syrians a lesson.
Kennedy pulled off that trick; during the brief spurt of so-called Cleggmania at the 2010 election, so did the leader now said by many to have all but destroyed his party.
Trynka continues: "Like many of Harrison's songs, the opening and chords are sweet, reassuringly recognisable, but just as we settle down the melody skips away, aided by his trademark trick of a brief switch of time signature.
Rather than reviewing my book, Tribe has written a common lawyer's brief, employing the sorts of tricks lawyers use to diminish a position they must attack: overreading, underreading or simply misreading complex arguments; taking snippets of quotations out of context; attributing contrived motives to an author or far-fetched consequences to a position; and so forth.
