Sentence examples for effective tricks from inspiring English sources

Consequently, she deployed one of the oldest — and yet still massively effective — tricks in the book: the naked dress.

The director, Jerry Mitchell, doesn't have a sure hand for pace or tone here, instead employing a pile of cheaply effective tricks, like trotting out small children and the elderly like so many adorable pets.

(Andy Webster 20110609 ★ 'Play Dead' The magician Teller directed and helped create this gleefully gruesome frightfest for grown-ups, in which Todd Robbins, noted light-bulb eater and expert in sideshow freakishness, discusses death, afterlife and some particularly creepy historical figures while working some very effective tricks.

(Grode) ★ 'Play Dead' (closes on Sunday) The magician Teller directed and helped create this gleefully gruesome frightfest for grown-ups, in which Todd Robbins, noted light-bulb eater and expert in sideshow freakishness, discusses death, afterlife and some particularly creepy historical figures while working some very effective tricks.

Food, food, food: Free food is one of the oldest and most effective tricks when it comes to company perks.

But Prof Truscott says one of the most effective tricks is also the simplest - drop a few pieces of tissue into a toilet bowl to soften the blow.

It was a simple but effective trick.

Or, rather, a prodigiously effective trick or treat.

"Are you a guru?" another woman asks after a particularly effective trick.

But a Cobot employs a very simple and surprisingly effective trick to get around its inherent limitations.

The electronica stutter that shifts Furtado's Afraid into transcendent romantic euphoria is still an effective trick 10 years later on Mobley's wonderful Tell Me.