Sentence examples for in sleight from inspiring English sources

Conjurors also indulge in sleight of hand.

Stealing money and forging are no longer quite such specialist exercises in sleight of hand.

"AT&T is engaged in sleight of hand," Mr. McCormick said.

"The government is therefore engaging in sleight of hand when it asserts that the jury may find that 'Andersen' intended something if each juror believes that a different person at Andersen had that intent".

A week earlier, an emissary from Theory11 had come to the restaurant to give the servers a lesson in sleight of hand, and McIrvin had been practicing ever since, walking around with cards in her hands to sharpen her feel for them.

It is also remarkable because while it revels in sleight of hand and celebrates the magic of theatre, it is also painfully honest about the choices we make and the way we stare despair in the face while pretending we are OK.

But unlike Balanchine and Cunningham, Nikolais was interested in sleight-of-hand and eye, in visual illusion rather than the expansion of a dance vocabulary.

The magic of alliteration also prevails as the poet continues his play with the sounds of language, in particular the letter "s" as in "sleights of sails/Over the sea" or "subsiding sound".

The color images that Mr. Newton has created with his liquid lenses have a built-in optical sleight of hand.

Mrs. Clinton insisted that Mr. Lazio's aides had engaged in some sleight of hand in the bargaining over an agreement.

There's something uncanny in the sleight of hand he uses to achieve this sort of momentum in books so full of minute analysis and detailed quotation.