Sentence examples for tricks of a from inspiring English sources
University lecturers anxious to persuade should copy the didactic tricks of a Pentecostal preacher.
Mr. Ditmas did, and quickly found himself learning the tricks of a time-honored trade.
Purnell revealed the tricks of a cabinet minister faced with an obstructive prime minister.
For much of the game, Spain showed the dribbling and passing tricks of a world-class contender.
Sophie Delaporte, at the Galerie Marion Meyer, played tricks of a different sort, fiddling with the trompe l'oeil qualities of photography.
His claim to fame is his wickedly incisive but good-natured parody of the world around him, using all the tricks of a master showman.
Hermes, for instance, was "full of tricks—a bringer of dreams".
A conjuring trick of a book.
"We'll ensure that Modi makes a hat-trick of a win in Gujarat".
And then he moved through time, using the epic novelist's trick of a heroine as old as the century.
It was a parlor trick, of a kind, and, like all parlor tricks, perhaps insufferable except to a small son of the diver.
