Sentence examples for trick of it from inspiring English sources

A brilliant novella of 1989, "The Trick of It" (first published in this magazine), was comic in the obtuse maneuvering of its hero, a literal-minded young academic mismarried to a middle-aged novelist of the eccentric, Spark/Murdoch/Rose Macaulay mold, but profound in its grasp of the opposition between the creative spirit and the critical.

It was time to try to figure out the trick of it.

The trick of it is that you simply cannot take it for granted.

And the trick of it is, of course, that the reader only grows more certain that she is more right than most.

Michael Frayn 's novels include Towards the End of the Morning, The Trick of It and A Landing on the Sun.

The trick of it, by the way, is the same as that of the "Mona Lisa": painting different expressions in the eyes and in the mouth.

All of which make for a cookbook that manages a deft trick of its own: It's both aspirational and pragmatic, instructional as well as comforting.

The tools of the trade would vanish from this room, and the tricks of it from the curriculum.

ESA engineers solved it by the old trick of turning it off and on again – and it worked.

I did my usual trick of ignoring it and hoping it would go away.

And if you think it's just some trick of earnings, it's not – stocks are overpriced on a price-to-sales basis, too, trading at more than double revenues.