legerdemain

How To Use legerdemain In A Sentence

• What was the point of this sophisticated legerdemain with Ray's aliases?
• Convincing voter-taxpayers that they should pay for something available for free naturally requires some political legerdemain.
• In such talk in such contexts, there is linguistic legerdemain: we call our doubts mysteries and what is now being ap - pealed to as “the mystery of faith” is but the theolog - ical phrase for agnosticism (p. 22). AGNOSTICISM
• Its legerdemain has extremely rich incendiary sex and the teaching material that cheat a gender namely.
• There were fine nuggets of legerdemain, courtesy of the illusionist Paul Kieve.
• Perhaps you would like to see a little bit of legerdemain, or a paltry amount of prestidigitation, or a conundrum of conjuring.
• Zusi, who was not deposed for trial, denies that he ever made such threats or encouraged anyone to use accounting legerdemain to manage earnings.
• The target of the latter piece of legislative legerdemain is the Free Software movement itself.
• The distance between these two opposites De Quincey does not traverse by violent leaps; he does not by some feat of legerdemain evanish from the fields of impassioned eloquence, where he is an unrivalled master, to appear forthwith in those of intellectual gymnastics, where, at least, he is not surpassed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
• In some circles, ethics experts are infamous for just this kind of psychological legerdemain.