Sentence examples for subtle deception from inspiring English sources

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But it also often compels them to keep the frontiers of subtle deception in view.

Three Australian batsmen fell to Pakistan's leading practitioner of subtle deception, Saeed Ajmal, who consolidated his position as the all-time leading wicket-taker in Twenty20 internationals.

A subtle deception is involved in the analogy between nation and family; and an illicit transfer of feelings comes with the appeal to "unconditional love".

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Seife lays out a rogues' gallery of more subtle deceptions.

Hannah, left alone, was grateful that we are animals; it was this silly, strenuous, good, humble cluttering of animal needs which saw us through sane, fully as much as prayer; and towards the end of these moments of solitude, with her mind free from the subtle deceptions of concern, she indulged herself in whispering, aloud, "He's dead.

But this is just the tip of a marketing iceberg, and the myriad, subtle deceptions under the water line are apt to get the better of even the savviest shoppers.

What subtle deceptions can you pick up?

There was the subtler deception involved in asking subjects to repeat a photogenic gesture until he'd nailed it or, when taking truly candid pictures of kids at play, simply inventing their names and home addresses for the newspaper caption.

Super Bowl-losing Brady is more poised in the pocket, having utterly mastered the often overlooked skill of subtle body deception (small pump fakes, looking off defenders, hints of shoulder twists – anything to make a defender guess wrong).

Were his masters too impatient, too crudely bloodthirsty to deal in a more subtle game of deception?

The risks consist not so much in outright fraud – big lies that would be jailable offences – as in more subtle forms of deception.

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