Sentence examples for performance of sleight from inspiring English sources

TIMES SQUARE was the focal point of my show "Ricky Jay: On the Stem," a personal homage to old Broadway in which I discoursed on hustlers and spivs, journalists and poets, showmen and charlatans as a background to my performance of sleight of hand, and one of our first shows was a fund-raiser that included a celebration at the newly opened Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum at 234 West 42nd Street.

A nice bit of sleight of hand, that!

The failure to recognise this led to gaming the system by setting very low standards for proficiency, by incorporating statistical sleight of hand into reported performance results, by not truly counting the performance of all students, and to outright cheating.

Moreover, there is a lot of sleight-of-hand here.

entails something of a sleight of hand.

It's the premise of every sleight-of-hand game.

Mr. Lauer also earned laughter from the agency executives in the audience for a remark he made at the end of the presentation, after a performance by Apollo Roberts, a sleight-of-hand artist known as the Gentleman Thief, in which he and Ms. Guthrie took part.

These early descriptions reflect performances of conjurers that probably took place decades or even hundreds of years before they were recorded, and these books provide the basis for much of the sleight of hand still in use.

The most important perk of all is sleight-of-hand.

It is all like a sleight-of-hand trick, in which the magician diverts your attention from the awkward or irrelevant movements that conceal the manipulation of the cards, and it may mildly amuse and amaze you, as such a sleight-of-hand performance may.

The effect is both mystifying and perfectly transparent: watching Pallett add each new layer gives a keenly vicarious pleasure, an oddly initiatory thrill, not unlike watching a sleight-of-hand performance from over the magician's shoulder.