How To Use Hocus-pocus In A Sentence
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It also means the expert deception of the senses by the tricks of a conjurer, so-called hocus-pocus and fraud, and a magician is either an evil-minded, superstitious mortal, fool enough to believe in charms, or an expert pretender and imposter of the first water, who cheats and deceives the people.
The light of Egypt; or, The science of the soul and the stars
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He never offers specifics; it's all hocus-pocus.
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‘Maybe you'd prefer abracadabra hocus-pocus,’ said Madi nastily, and the room was filled with pretty multicoloured sparkles which eventually faded away.
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I like the simple, durable types that have manual controls - no electronic hocus-pocuses.
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More evidence of religious hocus-pocus over substance?
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In Canada, Codan is a farm involved in some Stygian hocus-pocus, breeding genetically altered sheep, and is where I found this delightful picture ...
Codan the Barbarian!
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But everything else in this ‘investigation’ is not much more than editorial hocus-pocus.
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He was hocus-pocussed into buying an artificial diamond ring.
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One look at what s on the table, and we're aware of the reasons behind your juvenile hocus-pocus games.
INCA GOLD
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On December 1st, 2009 at 11: 35 am, “Hocus-pocus” – The Taste Makers in the NYer | Dr Vino's wine blog wrote:
WSJ: wine-rating system is badly flawed | Dr Vino's wine blog
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Without these other figures, the rest is hocus-pocus.
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The power of magick is not just hocus-pocus, a wiggle of a rat, and a curse with a bat.
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He recalled that his father suffered greatly because people misunderstood what he did for black magic or some other hocus-pocus.
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He was hocus-pocussed into buying an artificial diamond ring.
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And if the virtual world is broad, it obviously isn't broad enough to enable one to escape from this kind of corporate hocus-pocus.
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As I've already said, there are lots of people who are sceptical about psychics, and think that's it's just hocus-pocus.
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Up to that point it was all potions and hocus-pocus.
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Hey, great, the hocus-pocus exhibition is still going strong.
TICKLED PINK
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Lind's simple and logical process should have swept through medicine, brushing aside the accumulated hocus-pocus of centuries.
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PHILLIPS: However, Dahn Yoga claims its treatments are not, quote, "hocus-pocus" but based on what it calls ancient wisdom.
CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2010
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As he puts it, ‘There is always a conundrum, a mystery and hocus-pocus in an established religion.’
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What you may term the hocus-pocus side of the case," he replied,
The Green Eyes of Bâst
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(Spoken) -- Hallo, (said the clown, scrambling up again, and scratching his broken head,) to be sure I have heard of sleight-of-hand, hocus-pocus and sich like; but by gum this here be a new manouvre called sleight of legs; however as no boanes be broken between us, I'll endeavour to make use on 'em once more in following the game in view: so here goes, with a
Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
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His bill not only includes some $400 million a year in direct subsidies, but it also attempts to bamboozle us with linguistic hocus-pocus, simply defining away the industry's environmental ugliness.
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`And I'm not into crystals and hocus-pocus so I was only going to be mooching until they'd finished.
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And no amount of organic industry hocus-pocus can make that truth disappear.
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By the dawn of the Scientific Revolution, researchers equipped with microscopes founded modern chemistry - and dismissed alchemy as hocus-pocus.
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The operation behind the printing of those statements is a show of such technological hocus-pocus that it is distracting.
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We may skip the hocus-pocus part of the article and go directly to its conclusions.
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Hey, great, the hocus-pocus exhibition is still going strong.
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He was hocus-pocussed into buying an artificial diamond ring.
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Our most beloved hocus-pocus of all is the idea that economic growth will rescue us from all our troubles - but last fall the economy grew 8 percent without creating any new jobs to speak of.
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He thinks psychology is a load of hocus-pocus.
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`And I'm not into crystals and hocus-pocus so I was only going to be mooching until they'd finished.
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For secrets on the technical hocus-pocus, go with the two production commentaries.
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It is unlikely he would have mistaken hocus-pocus for genuine knowledge.
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The Spencers would be the first to say that it takes more than a magic wand and a couple of hocus-pocuses to help people feel better about themselves.
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One look at what s on the table, and we're aware of the reasons behind your juvenile hocus-pocus games.
INCA GOLD
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One is simply another name for psychic healing and involves none of the fake hocus-pocus of the other.
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For myself, I care nothing for the gift of interpretation, and far less for that dreadful type of effete facility which produces a kind of hocus-pocus technical brilliancy which fuddles the eye with a trickery, and produces upon the untrained and uncritical mind a kind of unintelligent hypnotism.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
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`You could have approached us without all the hocus-pocus, couldn't you?
UNREASONABLE DOUBT
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If you're starting to itch, just understand that I'm an atheist who doesn't believe in hocus-pocus.
SeeLight:
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In the healing story that Mark tells, things are even more ordinary: a simple question, a brief response, no hocus-pocus.
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`You could have approached us without all the hocus-pocus, couldn't you?
UNREASONABLE DOUBT
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Yet while most mind-reading acts wrap their shows up in a cloak of hocus-pocus, Salem portrays his mind games as science.
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As a result, as long as a government official launders his or her preordained illegal activity through the hocus-pocus of a sufficiently loyal legal hack, neither the official nor the legal hack will ever be held to account for their central roles in breaking the law.
Sunday Always Comes Too Late « Gerry Canavan
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For myself, I care nothing for the gift of interpretation, and far less for that dreadful type of effete facility which produces a kind of hocus-pocus technical brilliancy which fuddles the eye with a trickery, and produces upon the untrained and uncritical mind a kind of unintelligent hypnotism.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
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He thinks psychology is a load of hocus-pocus.
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And moreover, if we believed that it would be unconditionally hastened by our getting the franchise, we should be what I call superstitious men, believing in magic, or the production of a result by hocus-pocus.
George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy
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No statistical hocus-pocus can hide this real-life, greed-induced assault on our country's middle class.
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I still think that horoscopes are a load of hocus-pocus.
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There is no hocus-pocus, no aggressive posturing or screaming for effect.
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Of course, after all the reports of financial hocus-pocus, investors are understandably wary of earnings figures being put out by corporations.
