A 360 flip is not easy, but done alone on flat ground it is not a video-worthy trick.
And it is work -- physical, intellectual, emotional and sometimes even spiritual work, rewarded by moments of glory that feel like pulling off a David-Copperfield-worthy magic trick, or finally solving a calculus problem that's been tickling your brain for months.
George Eaton at the Staggers says George Osborne has pulled off an accounting trick worthy of Enron.
Perhaps convincing a constituency that electing the same MP wearing a different rosette represents real change is a magic trick worthy of TV.
Well, turn to p. 12 of the Office for Budget Responsibility document and it becomes clear that Osborne has performed an accounting trick worthy of Enron.
In those closing sequences, "Fleabag" turns a trick worthy of Gypsy Rose Lee herself, exposing the merciful story that's hidden many layers beneath the cruel one.
In a neat trick worthy of one of her parent-child-generosity novels, Rodgers gave her son his most successful idea: adapting Elizabeth Spencer's 1960 novella "The Light in the Piazza".
Applying his peculiar brand of twisted logic to the case, Stanley has some droll exchanges with a literal-minded cop and catches the killer with a trick worthy of Miss Marple.
This is a magic trick worthy of the Magic Hall Of Fame.
All this sleight of hand culminated in another delusional mirror trick, one worthy of "Despair": the word in Montreux was that Véra Nabokov was her husband's ghostwriter, because she was always seen by tradespeople at her desk, and he — who wrote in bed, or standing at his lectern, or in the bath — never was.
It's an improvement worthy of the greatest trick of all time, the 9800 Pro pencil mod — and probably just as boneheaded of an idea to try.
