Sentence examples for is a sleight from inspiring English sources

Mr Huckabee says a rate of 23% would suffice, but this is a sleight of hand.

Logan's dialogue is a sleight of hand; behind its wallop is a lot of learning.

And so Erdogan's package is a sleight of hand, a gesture intended to appease one section of the country without arousing the other: Giving Kurds or Alevis more rights risked alienating his core supporters among Sunni and Turkish nationalists.

While the World Service serves a useful function for many people in the global south, rebadging it as an aid project is a sleight of hand that will mean diverting resources from 'real' aid in the longer term.

Salesmanship, in its extreme form, is a sleight of hand, a trick, whereby people are persuaded, to buy in cash or just mentally speaking, what is patently not true and unbelievable.

For their part, dozens of House conservatives have pledged never to vote for financing legislation that does not kill off the health care law — and they say the structure of the House legislation is a sleight of hand that would not impair the law at all.

"It is a sleight of hand and, I have to say, pretty disingenuous.

To which evolutionists respond that this is a sleight of hand, showing ignorance of what is genuinely at stake.

To most ordinary people and also quite a lot of geneticists, it is a sleight of hand that is as illogical as it is unethical.

One might take the view that the apparent derivation of a metaphysical conclusion from semantic premises is a sleight of hand, with hidden essentialist premises being smuggled into the argument.

Ricky Jay is a sleight-of-hand artist, actor, and author.