Sentence examples for tricks of time from inspiring English sources

"Inside Llewyn Davis" isn't a documentary about the folk-music scene; it's about the existential tricks of time — the terrible, subtle blow that knocks a person from the vanguard to the sidelines, from the promise of youth to the nostalgia of age in a single moment.

I WAS first diagnosed as a tumor," said Gov. Cecil H. Underwood, grinning at age 77 as he spoke of the many tricks of time, beginning with the suspicion of his mother, Della, that she was more likely ill than pregnant with him when she was 43.

Many of Ruiz's films, such as "Three Crowns of the Sailor" (Dec. 20) and "City of Pirates" (Dec. 22), involve tricks of time and memory; working with Proust, Ruiz seems to mind-meld with him, raising his own artistry to exquisite new heights.

But that could be a trick of time.

His blurring 6ft 5in frame, and huge stride, helped produce the most exhilarating trick of time.

This ingenious trick of time is managed by an oval wheel system that allows for the speeding and slowing of its motion, while the minutes and seconds march steadily, and constantly, on.

But as Microsoft took off in the 1980s and '90s, Mr. Allen encountered mixed success as an investor, leading critics to question whether he was not an "accidental zillionaire" whose wealth was "a lucky trick of time and place," as Wired magazine wrote in 1994.

"Heightened [military] pressure forced the LRA to try [its] time-tested tricks of buying time by duping the CAR authorities into 'negotiations' to purportedly allow Kony and his LRA to 'surrender' and resettle in Nzako, CAR," he said.

When Garcia and Hernandez match up Tuesday night, it will almost look like a trick of time-lapse photography.

Who, as though through some trick of time-lapse photography, are becoming young women even as I type.

Not averse to some of the dirty tricks of the time, he's now working for the Murder Squad, having previously been a high achiever in the Flying Squad.