Sentence examples for call misdirection from inspiring English sources

All this strikes me as what magicians call "misdirection", the sleight of hand by which the attention of the audience is drawn away from what is really happening.

As the suckers turn back to the stage, realizing that they've been tricked with a gross example of what magicians call misdirection, Penn finishes what he was saying about the audience's only responsibility: "At no time allow your eyes to wander".

The first week there was so much bungling, or what Sarah calls misdirection.

In magic, it is called misdirection -- an effort to distract from the real action.

Magicians succeed, he said, by manipulating people's own assumptions — call it misdirection — and never by lying.

Magicians call it misdirection: directing the attention of a crowd elsewhere so as to distract from the trick happening right in front of it.

Magicians call it misdirection.

In pro football, an adept offensive lineman tricks his opponent in what is called a "misdirection play".

We call this piece Misdirection Card Trick.

Let's call it subliminal misdirection.

But his misdirection call is, "Hey look, Bub, it's Beelzebub".