How To Use Prestidigitation In A Sentence
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By leaps and bounds, what I saw Kreskin perform on this DVD was the worst display of prestidigitation in my life.
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He steps forward and asks her to spell a list of much more difficult words, "prestidigitation" and "pulchritude" among them.
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It's ethical prestidigitation with ‘moral equivalence’ used for misdirection only.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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His prestidigitation continues to baffle not just batsmen but biomechanists appointed by the ICC to determine its legality.
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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").
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So we all should be careful to keep our eyes on the real issue and not be distracted by all the prestidigitation in the media.
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They also wish to control the world through the use of prestidigitation, strengthened by their alliance with the Secret Order of Clowns and Balloon Animal Artisans.
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He didn't create a company that fundamentally revolutionized the world by financial prestidigitation or by taking advantage of natural resources [e.g., coal or oil].
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There's a whole lot of prestidigitation going on.
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The blow was struck: henceforth the interpreters and all those who had dealings with the Arabs received orders to make them understand that my pretended miracles were only the result of skill, inspired and guided by an art called prestidigitation, in no way connected with sorcery.
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Where's The Club? was a rambling, Randy Newman-style ballad; Twenty Twenty Vision veered left into bluegrass; and Spider Fingers included the first and presumably last use of the word "prestidigitation" in popular song.
Evening Standard - Home
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Or maybe its a little pugilistic prestidigitation to avoid showing an aging action queen huffing and puffing in between roundhouses.
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And yet, the very transparency of her sculptures, drawings and prints - a transparency of process, as well as of form - is itself a kind of prestidigitation.
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Behind that prestidigitation was KDKA-TV, Pittsburgh's owned-and-operated affiliate, and the Time Machine video compressor trademarked by Prime Image.
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But in fact his very impatience, which makes him barge his way through the first couple of minutes of the piece, produces the most incredible feats of prestidigitation.
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If you buy into such narrative bribery and presentational prestidigitation, you'll gladly go along with whatever is offered.
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Trying to prove that prestidigitation is easy once you know the secret, the foreign know-it-all explains the basics of magic.
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The piano is usually thought of as the more orchestral keyboard instrument, but Hantaï's prestidigitation just about put the harpsichord on equal footing.
Authentication keys
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The twin deficits will continue to baffle commentators who are too dim-witted to understand that they have fallen victim to clever prestidigitation.
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In a display of fine and somehow entirely Hispanic prestidigitation, he makes the fish his yo-yo.
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That last bit -- essentially blaming study design for placebo response rates -- is the kind of prestidigitation that passes for science in psychiatry these days.
Furious Seasons
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We do not understand how they came to have this authority over our elected politicians; and we do not understand how we may remove them from office, since they seem to have simply appeared, by Prescottian prestidigitation.
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Alongside diehard Thaksinite protesters, stand middle-class Thais who do not care for Mr Thaksin but are disgusted by the political prestidigitation that toppled two elected governments.
