Sentence examples for misdirection as a from inspiring English sources

Mr. Shaffer, who died earlier this month, recounts his initial interest in writing a "different kind of horror film," one begun by misdirection as a murder-mystery.

Others, including this magazine's Book Bench blog, wondered if it was just a clever trap — a misdirection, as a spy might put it — meant to expose the staleness of the genre.

The problem is that every one of these stories is either completely false or so pumped full of selected half-truths and misdirection as to create a myth with no connection to reality.

What's happening is concealment and misdirection, as Teller demonstrates with a neat routine involving a vanishing cigarette, which he first performs, then flips around to reveal its artifice to the crowd.

There's no need for subterfuge and misdirection, as it isn't a used car you're selling.

The conventional wisdom is that this is exactly what paid search helps us to do, but all too often they are nothing more than a form of misdirection, as I explain further below.

Guardiola had warned against attempting to "do everything" in the first quarter of the game but talk of caution turned out to be an act of misdirection as Bayern again pressed man for man and defended with that slightly wild high line.

Last weekend, in its renovated warehouse in Bushwick, the Boston band Speedy Ortiz was playing on the kitchen floor while some of the residents were jamming upstairs in a second space known, with ironic misdirection, as the Champagne Room.

Such are the hazards of digital misdirection, as Mr. Weiner found out.

The stories seem to proceed as much by accident and misdirection as by design.

Redman — in a Warriors hat that pointed to his Bay Area roots — began by swerving through the easy melody of "As This Moment Slips Away," but it was misdirection as the band had hardier terrain in mind.