Sentence examples for mystifier from inspiring English sources

Was he a man mystified by everything, or was there something of a mystifier in him?" Ambrose Vollard also wondered whether, underneath everything, Rousseau "was a sly old dog".

Like other Amherst boys of his era, he fell under the spell of Professor Charles Garman, "a mystifier, a charmer of young men, with an edge of hocus pocus," who, according to Shlaes, "taught his own private blend of psychology, philosophy, politics, and ethics".

But at this point in his career Mr. Godard is better described as a village mystifier.

Thousands of New Yorkers, some skeptical, some spellbound, turned out yesterday to gape at the unlikely image of a man standing in a giant ice cube, as David Blaine, a 27-year-old self-described "mystifier," entered his second day encased in an increasingly soggy six-ton block of ice.

Indeed, he prefers to call himself a "master mystifier," rather than a magician.

Yesterday was not the mystifier's first adventure in sensory deprivation.

In an article in 2000 in The Mystifier, a publication of the Houdini Historical Center in Appleton, Wis., Dr. Young called the Harlem address "worthy of the Handcuff King".

-- Posted by Elizabeth Fuller TALK SHOW I'm just old enough to have seen and met some of the last of the legendary mystifiers from an earlier time.

Busts of the Master Mystifier, as Houdini was known, are said to carry a particularly peculiar significance.