Sentence examples for tricks in which from inspiring English sources

The executions are staged like elaborate magic tricks, in which commonplace bathroom and kitchen items malevolently turn against their owners.

Its favourite vehicles are allegory, fable, the whole post-modern bag of tricks in which the angle on "past time" is often determinedly oblique.

The peepshow is a box of tricks in which the viewer is fooled into seeing things as they are not by the use of apparent perspectives that are false.

After a number of tricks in which the magicians sprout increasingly bizarre mutations as they try to outdo each other, they tear each other limb from limb before their component parts strike an uneasy truce.

This time she achieves her most lucid, well-plotted and exciting conclusion, complete with a spectacular wand-on-wand confrontation to recall Luke, Darth and their light sabers, enhanced by the identity-twisting tricks in which Ms. Rowling specializes.

Not only does he make you believe a man can fly; he makes you believe he can glide, soar, hover, swoop, and all the other tricks in which birds had previously cornered the market.

He practiced his lifelong hobby of magic, developing a trick in which he made a rabbit disappear.

Otherwise, the opponents score everything they made unless they failed to win a single trick, in which case their meld scores are canceled and they score nothing.

A S Byatt said Jackson's Dilemma was akin to an Indian rope trick in which the characters "have no selves and therefore there is no story".

"It's almost impossible to fathom," he said, referring to Jagr's hat trick, in which he demonstrated a different skill with each goal.

In the end the play seems less a debate about modern art than a clever theatrical con-trick in which we, like Adam, emerge decisively duped.