prestidigitation

How To Use prestidigitation In A Sentence

• By leaps and bounds, what I saw Kreskin perform on this DVD was the worst display of prestidigitation in my life.
• He steps forward and asks her to spell a list of much more difficult words, "prestidigitation" and "pulchritude" among them. Rachel Pine: Floats Like a Butterfly, Stings Like A Spelling Bee
• It's ethical prestidigitation with ‘moral equivalence’ used for misdirection only.
• A math professor at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif., Benjamin has brought his particular brand of prestidigitation to a wide variety of appreciative audiences.
• He somehow manages an amazing bit of film production prestidigitation that has us forgetting that we are seeing some rather stupid stuff scuttle across the screen.
• Like so many young writers, Foer is steeped in the wink-wink orthodoxies of postmodernism; but unlike so many of them he has put his narrative prestidigitation in the service of some very serious themes.
• His prestidigitation continues to baffle not just batsmen but biomechanists appointed by the ICC to determine its legality.
• Perhaps you would like to see a little bit of legerdemain, or a paltry amount of prestidigitation, or a conundrum of conjuring.
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• It's a gag pile-up, with a funny moment packed into practically every second of the short, whether it's a broadly played physical gag (Bugs pulling himself out of the magician's hat by his own ears, holding himself suspended in the air without explanation), or a nice turn of phrase (I love the fact that this film makes a gag out of the inability to say "prestidigitation"). Short Film Week, Day 6: Six Chuck Jones Cartoons