Sentence examples for clever sleight from inspiring English sources

This, in a clever sleight of hand, is Potter as field vole.

It is not a moral polemic but a clever sleight of hand.

Villa needed a touch of class to exert some superiority and Gil - already a crowd favourite - provided it after 51 minutes, showing clever sleight of foot before curling a magnificent 25-yard finish high past Camp.

(While Richwine acknowledges that this last is unproven, he proceeds to argue as if it is proven, and to elide by a clever sleight of hand the difference between a genetic component of intelligence and genetic determination of intelligence).

Out of a nation shaken by terrorism, racial tension and violence, where traces of past sins collide with a quicksilver pop culture, rides Quentin Tarantino's new film about frontier justice, strange alliances and how a black bounty hunter with a dead-eye shot survives on guile, menace and clever sleight of hand against enemies and unrepentant Confederates.

The double lift is a simple but clever sleight of hand.

Mr. Burger, whose previous films include "The Illusionist," an elegant and clever sleight-of-hand caper, unwinds Eddie's story with a feverish, hyperactive clarity that mirrors the protagonist's inner state.

These unsettling hybrids have their own formal integrity — they aren't merely clever sleights of hand.

She could not remember when the clever marketing sleight of hand happened and it had become the 'Connected Home'.

Less is always more here, and there are some clever and unsettling sleights of hand, particularly in the way it plays with perspective.

It's a clever strategy and sometimes a nice sleight of hand.