Sentence examples for the slight of from inspiring English sources

It was the slight of Iraq's miraculous team.

What happens when the smoke and mirrors, the slight of hand, are taken away?

Others of his ilk have proved less effective as familiarity has increased, losing their magic like a card trick when the slight of hand is exposed.

A welcome wryness accompanies the occasion on which Gershwin endured the slight of having his song "The Man I Love" used as background in a radio commercial for a laxative.

You can bet that if those gay couples started correcting the slight of being referred to as "friends" or requesting votes against a gay marriage ban, there'd be an uptick in crimes against them.

He takes that advice himself, even after the slight of seeing one of his pictures published in his old paper with only Sun-Times Libraryy" as the credit line.

atlantic.com A pickpocket's tale Apollo Robbins, the slight-of-hand magician who turned his talents to thieving.

Cast as a swaggering Irish stoker last played on Broadway in 1993 by Liam Neeson, the slight-of-frame Englishman that is Mr. Law hardly sounds like the first person you would turn to for this role.

The slight-of-hand and subversive word-play of Larry Gelbart and the masterful construction of William Goldman or the pitch perfect ear of Nick Pellegi.

There was the slightest of pauses.

No, she said with the slightest of smiles.