Sentence examples for just a sleight from inspiring English sources

Just a sleight of hand will usually bring a smile, even if they're shy.

The recent vote against fast-track authority has sent a signal to U.S. allies in the Pacific that the much-vaunted pivot is just a sleight of hand.

But this is just a slick sleight of thought: if anything Robyn, a battle ram with uncanny songwriting gifts and only occasional moments of complexity, offers a more straightforward proposition than the quirky Ms. Perry.

Demonize-and-divide isn't just a little sleight of hand being used to obstruct trans rights advocates: it's a tactic that's being employed with increasing frequency and impunity by the new POTUS and his régime to raise questions about the humanity of a number of minority groups.

You don't have to have a Paul Ryan Powerpoint presentation to figure out that Trumpcare, which proposes moving millions of people from Medicaid to "tax credits," isn't just an accounting sleight of hand to have the government pay for healthcare without really calling it a social program.

Or is this just a magician's sleight of hand, misdirecting the attention from the more radical idea of abandoning Windows to save Office.

As we embrace various headlines indicating that we are now reducing prison populations, though, we must be very sure that we have not just fallen prey to a sleight of hand -- that we have not indeed been "taken" by the insidious shell game that is Decarceration Dodge.

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

Because in Samson's fictional world, perfection is just a trick of the light, a sleight of hand; it can be snatched away at any moment.

But just weeks later, in a sleight-of-hand deal with the Rolls-Royce holding company, BMW secured the rights to the Rolls nameplate after 2003.

But it's not a sleight by the organizers.