How To Use Prestidigitator In A Sentence
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DOWD: In a webcast, prestidigitator Penn Jillette talks about a joke he has begun telling in his show.
Hullabaloo
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Misdirection is one of the prestidigitator's tools, after all, and Welles' flair for grotesquerie and offbeat humour are as much a part of the entertainment as the tortuous plot.
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In the ring on the right, we have our gifted prestidigitator, Mr. John Shannon.
Ares Costs: Just Pick a Number - NASA Watch
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Quinsey was known as a mesmerist, a ventriloquist, an illusionist, a prestidigitator and a master of the Black Art, and occasionally in
The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier
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Please remember that this prestidigitator as US President does NOT represent America, by any means.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Today, magic is something to scoff at - the clownish domain left to oversexed prestidigitators and gay animal trainers in tights.
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Superman, spiderman, body-builder, magician, tactician, prestidigitator - call him whatever you may want, but he is a world-class, top-class off spinner and a match winner.
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Beck was also a proficient hypnotist, prestidigitator, chemist and roboticist, wearing a fishbowl, one-way plexiglass helmet, with gas jets mounted in his gloves and boots capable of emitting hallucinogenic, 'web' dissolving gases.
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Their secret priests therefore served the lust of the senses and practiced magic with all their might, employ conjurations and spells, concoct love potions and methods of seduction, and engage in dream-interpretation and dark prestidigitator's arts.
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At university, I was an active member of a society for prestidigitators, magicians and other such unserious folk.
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More and more actors, jesters, prestidigitators, clowns and comic singers are chasing fewer and fewer parts.
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Belief is an ephemeral and passive condition, based on submission to the prestidigitator through the suspension of reason, often in the face of obvious evidence of an opposite intention, rather like the empty, impotent vessel of its relative, hope.
The Crystal Ball(s)
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I strongly suggest they have been leant on by shadowy persons or individuals whose motivations and loyalties will be hard to untangle but which, if the effort is made, will turn out to lead back to the Hartlepool prestidigitator.
[green shoots] not likely, chamber of commerce
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From this verbal prestidigitator, we imbibe the lesson that both storyteller and con man make us willing victims.
A Small-Town Sorcerer Casts His Spell
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Misdirection is one of the prestidigitator's tools, after all, and Welles' flair for grotesquerie and offbeat humour are as much a part of the entertainment as the tortuous plot.
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The prestidigitators, in Times Square in New York, picked the final score and put their prediction in a pickle jar from the Carnegie Delicatessen which was watched over by Marines.
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With the grace of a prestidigitator the doctor slid the needle into his right arm.
THE DISPOSSESSED
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In fact, it's probably safe to say that no other place in the world can boast as high a population of prestidigitators as Sin City.
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As when a prestidigitator plucks a coin from someone's ear, two knives simply appeared in Karl's paws.
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For all his brilliance as the theater's foremost prestidigitator of language and thought, Stoppard is a conservative who, like Einstein himself, resists the idea that chance is the "" mother '' of reality.
What Happens When Spies Collide
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Even Jeremiah Wright, an embarrassing pastor who would probably have brought down a less-deft political prestidigitator, will not do in Barack Obama.
Obama's Other Radical Friends
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The term "volunteer" is used loosely; following in the grand tradition of mildly pervy prestidigitators, Wuthergloom/Woolfe has a tendency to select the most attractive, young women in attendance to participate.
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… the Amazing Larri, ‘a prestidigitator, an escapist extraordinaire, and the greatest living exposeur.’
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Well-meaning pedants may wonder why so gifted a verbal prestidigitator as Mr. Ives has resorted so often to imperfect rhymes, each one of which diminishes the hectic glitter of the play's verbal surface by a tiny but measurable increment.
Flying Couplets and Canapés
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The more convincing the painting, the greater the paradox that it was but a reflection or shadow, and the more the painter looked like a prestidigitator.
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He's a self-confessed rebel, a ‘poet-in-the-sky’, a prestidigitator who can do conjuring tricks and pick a pocket or two.
