Sentence examples for of a sleight of from inspiring English sources

entails something of a sleight of hand.

The ordered allure of "The Handmaiden" is something of a sleight of hand.

While the point is well made in the round, in his case it becomes something of a sleight of hand to disguise the unacceptable collapses.

But back home this policy is controversial, to say the least, with many experts accusing the government of a sleight of hand.

It is easy to be cynical about it in retrospect — being cynical about it in retrospect is by now a branch of American historical studies — and say that the poets' overwrought grief was the product of a sleight of hand worked by Jackie, no other group so easily bought as American writers.

For the CIO, this is largely good marketing–and a bit of a sleight of hand.

A sleight-of-hand brand of humor is at work, which derives both from a natural lightness of spirit and a refusal to condescend or moralize.

Somehow he discerned sixteen pieces of bass that could be halved, a sleight-of-knife executed so that no one in the dining room would notice.

Closely allied to Trojan horse cleverness is a sleight-of-hand definition of a company's core business to make the stock sexier.

"I make an honest living," says professional magician Jamy Ian Swiss in "Merchants of Doubt," as he performs a sleight-of-hand trick.

Alleged reductions in military spending are actually a sleight-of-hand trick coming out of future 'projected' budget numbers rather than actual funding outlays.