Sentence examples for through misdirection from inspiring English sources

A creeping paranoia becomes the film's dominant mood as Hunter's inquiry is thwarted through misdirection and violence; meager solace comes from a wistful affair with a colleague.

She says they are now often seeking power over their environment through misdirection, such as continually making and destroying Facebook accounts, or steganography, a cryptographic term for hiding things in plain sight by obscuring their true meaning.

The testimony showed also that by the method of firing adopted it was a reasonably easy matter to direct the firing so that injury would not arise through misdirection of the missiles; and that observation by those skilled enough to be licensed to explode fireworks was adequate to detect the lack of explosion of the material shot into the air.

The nuggets make interviewers think that the other stuff must be a put-on, that Dylan could speak with the tongue of angels all the time if he wanted to, and this makes them press harder, hoping that the next question will break through the misdirection and resistance, and the man in front of them will turn into "Bob Dylan".

Somehow that feeling made me want to follow through on misdirections of intimacy, misdirections of empathy.

Unpredictability bluffs, postures, and palters to gain advantage through uncertainty and misdirection.

Until fairly recently, composers who took on political topics tended to obscure their subjects through symbolism or misdirection.

All recipient households are interviewed and many are audited to make sure that money ends up with needy families, and not siphoned off through bribery and misdirection.

Gaslighting or gas-lighting is a form of manipulation through persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying in an attempt to destabilize and delegitimize a target.

The punchline is the line in the joke where the audience's expectation is shattered through surprise or misdirection, which usually results in laughter.

He usually triumphed through guile, deceit, and misdirection, but often made more enemies in the process than he defeated.