Sentence examples for trick of a from inspiring English sources

A conjuring trick of a book.

And then he moved through time, using the epic novelist's trick of a heroine as old as the century.

Observing the trick of a blacksmith's boy who used the propellant force of steam in a gun, he began to investigate ways to harness steam for propulsion.

It is the trick of a seasoned retailer, but Mr Kudo complains it will be harder to pull off next time.

"The trick of a show like this is, you say you're turning 'Rocky' into a musical, and people will think it's lightweight," Mr. Hoggett said.

That was a writer's imposition, like the trick of a telephoto lens, to put the revived Meadowlands right up against the city skyline.

"With the trick of an eye you can make it work better for you.

Leadership is a trick of perception, a bit of wisdom Shakespeare lent Henry IV, to pass along to Prince Hal.

He had a trick of folding a bill in his hand.

"The supremest kind of eloquence", in her view, was "the trick of explaining a trick by a further trick".

"Look, this is the classic political trick of turning a strength into a weakness," he says.