The initial paradox, which Plato describes as a "trick argument" (Meno, 80e), rings sophistical.
The officer, Jeffrey Sterling, is accused of being a source for a chapter in Mr. Risen's 2006 book, "State of War," which describes a C.I.A. effort to trick scientists in Iran.
This method describes a somewhat-common party trick and YouTube phenomenon, but is not something that should be attempted without extreme care and adult supervision.
PrevIously: Rublame One Out with a Roommate.
Metaphorical transformation can sometimes feel instantaneous, like a magic trick: when Robert Lowell describes ice floating down the Hudson as resembling "the blank sides of a jigsaw puzzle" or Frost describes a cellar hole as "slowly closing like a dent in dough," voilà, I can see it.
An assessment of Mr. Obama's waiver change by the Heritage Foundation describes it as a "trick to get around work requirements".
A barman (or "molecular mixologist/ close-up magician" as his website describes him) doing a trick for me, before getting back to making me another free cocktail, which is what I really wanted.
Mr. Shorto favors the trick of describing a young man's early history while withholding the fact that the young man is, say, Vincent van Gogh.
Once dsymorphic … You once described love as a "trick of your genes".
When they're going badly, one trick is to describe a room, the color of its wallpaper, the smell of its woodwork, the sound of plumbing upstairs.
