Through digital trickery, her characters play scenes with one another — bickering, bonding, and strategizing.
Taking the opposite view, Robert Maurer questioned the emotional underpinnings of her fiction, writing, "One wonders how vast a reserve of sympathy lies beneath the iceberg of her consciousness, and how far beyond trickery her work would go if she let it show through".
Since she couldn't see herself that way, he did it by trickery, exploiting her merely relative grasp of pitch to transpose her exercises upwards from C to E flat until one day, in the midst of a furious row, the Voice burst out in a perfect top F sharp that astounded both of them.In 1954 they married, and from then until her retirement in 1990 she never sang a role unless Ric approved it.
It's the beginning of a long career in murder and trickery for her, and a crucial step on the road to heroic fame for him.
In "Dido and Aeneas," by Henry Purcell, the more dancey of the two, the mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe sings from the pit about the grief of the Queen of Carthage and the trickery of her mortal enemy, a saucy sorceress.
There are no attempts to prettify it with studio trickery, but her garbled drawl is a heavy weapon nonetheless — it shivers with purpose.
Her family did use trickery to lock her up and in 1985 they were still coming to terms with The Loony Bin Trip, her stunning account of what it is like to be on the receiving end of psychiatric care.
So when he learns of the existence of a woman named Sophie Emma Stonee), who is said to be a psychic without peer, the challenge is set: Stanley must watch her perform in order to unmask her trickery.
In "The Rainbow's End," by M. J. Fievre, a young love turns menacing; in "The Finger," by Gary Victor, a burglar's adventure ends unluckily; and in "Which One?," by Evelyne Trouillot, a mother uses trickery to surrender her daughter to life in America.
Kamban's Ramavataram (12th century) narrates that Shurpanakha – the sister of Ravana – impersonates Sita to seduce Rama, but her trickery is exposed by him.
Set in the 1920s, it stars Colin Firth as a magician who is sent to France to debunk the practices of Emma Stone's beguiling spiritualist – but the accuracy of her soothsaying and her impressive trickery have his cynicism challenged.
