Sentence examples for with the sleight from inspiring English sources

The fixation on the house helps with the sleight of hand – the average detached house on a new executive estate may actually be considerably smaller than the average new flat in Paris or Berlin, but the appeal to status and individuality apparently has the edge.

Robert Goddard is a consummate storyteller who constructs a narrative with the sleight-of-hand skills of a pickpocket.

But magically appearing with the sleight-of-hand master will be a $250 ticket -- a record-setting price for a sub-99-seat L.A. theater.

Had the Elysée's salles des fêtes been packed to the ornate rafters and chandeliers with French media, the sleight of hand might have worked.

The affable Mr Tsvangirai has borne all the sleights and humiliations with astonishing calm.

With this sleight of hand, even Revolution Day is now actually a celebration of the war effort.

"With that sleight of hand you've ensured that you will not discuss anything of substance.

One large room within this subdivided gallery has been devoted to artists whose games with material and gravity set up a fascinating study in gender, and gender expectations, with a Richard Serra piece defying gravity with risky bravado in one corner, while a Lynda Benglis does the same with sleight of hand and whimsy on the far wall.

That running with the ball, that sleight of foot, that eye for a pass.

For me, it's more about trying to retrieve the bodies that disappear with the corporate digital sleight of hand.

There are moments in "Bleeding Edge," when Mr. Pynchon uses his hefty arsenal of talents to capture the churning anxiety of New York at the turn of the millennium with gorgeous sleight of hand, but there are also embarrassing sequences with characters nattering on and on about "false flag" capers, insinuating possible United States government or Mossad involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks.