"trick of life" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express a concept or truth about life that is hard to understand or accept. For example, "Sometimes the trick of life is to remember that things have a way of working out."
"That's the trick of life — how much everything can change".
(Of his marriage he says, "Maybe our wedding was just a distraction," later adding, "not a denial, just a trick of life, like a Christmas in the middle of a bleak winter or television in a cancer ward").
That is the cruel trick of life: we live to die.
WE have our moment, our summer, and it is a trick of passing life that when we are young the summers seem endless, stretched out in the heat and the long days, that paradise before far-off school resumes.
There is also a good deal of advice about how to improve your financial standing, including how to guard against identity theft, "Old, Trusting and Tricked Out of Life Savings".
Sticking with the biblical theme, the Diary wonders whether Fox Searchlight might be missing a trick with The Tree of Life.
"Two Vases: Flowers" (1967) by Robert De Niro Sr .(the father of the actor) offers a kind of trick still life — two vases superimposed over each other appear as one — that borrows from European-modernist-derived expressionism.
By playing the four and three of spades on the 11th and 12th tricks, Passell achieved one of life's minor ambitions.
Instead they found "dedicated if slightly disorganised researchers ill-prepared for public attention".In this section Signs of life A trick of the light More harm than good?
So it might make sense to widen the search by looking for other telltales.In this section Signs of life A trick of the light More harm than good?
And at the end of March a federal court issued a bombshell ruling: the patents held by Myriad Genetics, a biotechnology firm, on the BRCA genes within the United States are, it said, "unsustainable as a matter of law .In this section Signs of life A trick of the light More harm than good?
