Sentence examples for rhetorical sleight from inspiring English sources

But this is a rhetorical sleight of hand; he in fact competed hard in New Hampshire, to remarkably poor effect.

Once this rhetorical sleight of hand is achieved, the way is open to make war on non-Muslims on the authority of the sword verse.

Duncan Atrioss" Black calls Sullivan's endorsement of abstinence education "a rhetorical sleight of hand which entirely ignores the relevant policy debate".

Though the offer to raise money by closing loopholes has a bipartisan pedigree — based on a plan proposed last year by the Democrat Erskine Bowles and the Republican Alan Simpson, the chairmen of President Obama's deficit commission — it relies on rhetorical sleight of hand.

The President's speech required a certain rhetorical sleight of hand; one view of events was that G.M. and Chrysler had failed to meet the terms of their government loan but the government was going to give them more money and more time anyway — thirty days, in the case of Chrysler, sixty days for General Motors.

The rhetorical sleights of hand in the hawks' arguments don't end there.

But one thing is pure sleight of rhetorical hand.

To me, it's a remarkable rhetorical move, almost a sleight of hand.

Simple sleight of hand.

(Again, rhetorical).

A sleight of hand.