How To Use Sleight In A Sentence
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If you've been to the crossroads, and made the deal, and got the mojo — which turns out to be dependent on a great deal of hard work and practice, just like sleight-of-hand — wouldn't you maybe get a trifle riled by that kind of misjudgment from time to time?
Cops and Robbers
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The company accounts show a little financial sleight of hand.
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It's almost a kind of compositional sleight-of-hand, as Sting uses catchy melodies and pop-savvy arrangements to distract our attention away from just how crafty these songs are.
Ten Summoner's Tales
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And who maketh any doubt, that if those sleights and trickes, whereof this dayes argument may give us occasion to speake, should afterwardes be put in execution by men: would it not minister just reason, of punishing themselves for beguiling you, knowing, that (if you please) you have the like abilitie in your owne power?
The Decameron
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My issue is not so much with my company, but with the government's sleight of hand over this.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is every chance that he performed a little sleight of hand and other conjuring.
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'And many other are there, good and great; and one, Loki, fair of face, ill in temper and fickle of mood, is called the backbiter of the Asa, and speaker of evil redes and shame of all gods and men; he has above all that craft called sleight, and cheats all in all things.
The Story of the Volsungs
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Everybody enjoys watching him play, he's so sleight of foot.
The Sun
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He freely admitted that magic depended on deception and sleight of hand but said: ‘Origami is real magic!’
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The seemingly slipshod construction and use of everyday materials belies the structural sleight-of-hand employed, and it is a startling, playful introduction to the exhibition.
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Convenient oversights like this are all part of that sleight of hand this administration specializes in to pursue its aims.
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Sadly, the move is a sleight of hand that will make no difference to how much it actually costs to heat and power our homes.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a food label sleight-of-hand that Bruce Silverglade of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit advocacy group, calls a "rip-off" for consumers.
Nutrition buzzwords make hay out of grains of truth
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Their skill and sleight of foot are bound to yield many goals this season.
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Instead, by some sleight of mind, it distorts our idea of the pool of possibilities.
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North London or Oxbridge, Bob 321 Sleight was slime whichever way you looked at it.
FALLEN WOMEN
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The sleight of hand was impressive.
Times, Sunday Times
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When literary agent Sarah Yake shopped around Kirsten Kaschock's debut novel 'Sleight' this year, she thought it would be a shoo-in with New York's top publishers.
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Nash also does not need sleight-of-hand tricks to get the ball to well-defended scorers. Instead, he is a mind reader.
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This is a gang whose members are masters of subterfuge and sleight of hand, and they play for big money, jewels, banks and other high-security projects.
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Archive 2008-02-01
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But that no man should imagine that our forren trades of merchandise haue bene comprised within some few yeeres or at least wise haue not bene of any long continuance, let vs now withdraw our selues from our affaires in Russia, and ascending somewhat higher, let vs take a sleight suruey of our traffiques and negotiations in former ages.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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He used a very old fairground trick of sleight of hand.
The Sun
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Connell, in particular, outlines how bibliomaniacal self-indulgence threatened the ideological sleight-of-hand that invited Britons to understand others 'private properties as part of the common stock of the national heritage, and to understand gentlemanly book collectinglike that of Jane
"Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists
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It was taken by sleight of hand and then sold to a pawnbroker.
The Sun
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‘And many other are there, good and great; and one, Loki, fair of face, ill in temper and fickle of mood, is called the backbiter of the Asa, and speaker of evil redes and shame of all gods and men; he has above all that craft called sleight, and cheats all in all things.
The Story of the Volsungs
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As we sauntered forward I noticed all about lesser circles where the yellow-girted ones were drawing delighted laughter from good-tempered crowds by tricks of sleight-of-hand, and posturing, or tossing gilded cups and balls as though they were catering, as indeed they were, for outgrown children.
Gulliver of Mars
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We now realize that much of Burt's research was presented with a statistical sleight of hand.
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PC James Hare told deputy coroner John Sleightholme that shortly after the incident he spoke to maintenance worker Eric Butters, who was called to the ride when one of the cars failed to climb an incline and was held by a roll-back arrester.
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It is also deftly staged using an impressive sleight of hand and sleight of eye.
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Even the statistical sleight-of-hand that constitutes the current measure of consumer price inflation is at a nine-year high and the GDP implicit price deflator is at a five-year peak.
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Nothing to do with the kind of sleight-of-hand obfuscation you're trying to pull here, equating "all other Democrats" with Lieberman.
CT-SEN: Lieberman Won't Say Whether Dems Should Win House
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Again and again, with only minor variations, we see this sleight of hand at work.
Times, Sunday Times
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With a little sleight of hand, I capitalized the word Eclipse there.
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However, most of what I do magically tends to involve internal subconscious manipulation, sleight of mind.
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If it was called magic we would have expected some trickery and sleight of hand.
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How do the conmen work-sleight of hand; marked cards; switched or loaded dice, it's all here.
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The trick is done simply by sleight of hand.
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You can't reveal their hidden microphones or mimic their tricks with sleight of hand.
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Another time, they play at the edge of the stage and execute a kind of sleight of body, marching off stage, quickly changing clothes before marching back on in another guise, repeating this several times in a matter of seconds or minutes.
Mr. Memory : Bev Vincent
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Yvonne Sleightholme was arrested soon afterwards, but before she could be brought to trial she went blind - a condition referred to in those days as hysterical blindness.
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Most of these conjuring tricks depend on sleight of hand.
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For all her flightiness, there was seemingly nothing she could not get done by sleight of hand or obtain, if occasionally at shocking black-market prices.
A Covert Affair
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To save one's own strength, to defend oneself by sleight of body while drawing from one's opponent all his strength: this is the art of Ju-jitsu.
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By some psychological sleight, it can actually make winners feel like losers.
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The official or servile class includes the manciple, or buyer for a fraternity of templars, otherwise called an achatour, whence Cator, Chater a, the Reeve, an estate steward, so crafty that — "Ther nas baillif, ne herde, nor oother hyne, That he ne knew his sleighte and his covyne" and finally the Cook, or Coke — "To boylle the chicknes and the marybones.
The Romance of Names
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Forced choice and sleight-of-hand are not only the prevue of stage magicians, though.
The Art of Deception
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Galliano has a winning way with a drape and a ruffle, which is handy, since Portman will be four months pregnant, so expect some sleight of hand in the tummy area.
The Guardian World News
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He slammed the ANC for its "sleight-of-hand" politics, accused that organisation of "conning" and attempting to marginalise the Zulu nation, and of fanning violence to strengthen its argument for a speedy move to elections.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Wordie Action Alert: Dictionary of American Regional English
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By some statistical sleight of hand the government have produced figures showing that unemployment has recently fallen.
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We can only hope that the vice president will be given the chance to testify about this before a grand jury, after the election, when the Democrats take Congress as the kind of skewered logic that condones torture by linguistic sleight of hand is impeachable, in the best sense of the word.
"a little silly"
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Needless to say, providing pork often comes with a little senatorial sleight of hand.
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You could populate an interesting subcategory of composers with a particular flair for that kind of sleight-of-hand.
Categorical denials
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Create impressive graphic designs on your walls; all it takes is courage and a little sleight of hand.
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‘I'm interested in magic, sleight of hand and mentalism, which is like a mind reading thing,’ explains Warren.
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It features what he calls his ‘illusions,’ sleights-of-eye-and-mind that stagger around the lines between post-modernism, nostalgia, film references, and sheer aesthetic marvelousness.
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They were often magicians and practiced sleight of hand, and their use of trickery smacked of deceit.
A Short Guide to Writing About History
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What happened is a case of sleight-of-hand, of denial of the embarrassment these Articles cause, not unlike the embarrassment that Cranmer's predestinarian views caused ‘second-generation’ Anglicans such as Richard Hooker.
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Bullen and Sleight analyzed the shellfish content of Green Mound and reported that it was comprised of shells of oyster, clam, coquina and other species of shellfish.
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The optical sleight of hand used by the astronomers combined the telescope's "adaptive optics" with a technique called aperture mask interferometry: using a a deformable mirror to rapidly correct for atmospheric distortions to starlight.
New planet, the youngest ever found, is revealed by cosmic trick photography
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This is not, ye Covenants and Protestations that we have made! this is not to put down prelaty; this is but to chop an episcopacy; this is but to translate the Palace Metropolitan from one kind of dominion into another; this is but an old canonical sleight of commuting our penance.
Areopagitica
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Then, by a sleight of hand, he transforms this "phantasy" of his own brain into an unquestionable fact.
Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply
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A bit of élan and sleight of hand and perhaps just a twist of snobbery and insincere flattery wouldn't go amiss.
Times, Sunday Times
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Understanding how your audience thinks is the key to a great response to a trick, not the sleight of hand, he says.
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Geraldine Gibson of Sleights, whom Freshwater helped with children's donkey rides, had taken pity on him after he asked her for help.
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They were often magicians and practiced sleight of hand, and their use of trickery smacked of deceit.
A Short Guide to Writing About History
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The optical sleight of hand used by the astronomers combined the telescope's "adaptive optics" with a technique called aperture mask interferometry: using a a deformable mirror to rapidly correct for atmospheric distortions to starlight.
New planet, the youngest ever found, is revealed by cosmic trick photography
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‘Sleight of hand,’ he explained between chews.
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Archive 2008-02-01
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The trick is done simply by sleight of hand.
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But there was a sleight of hand here.
Times, Sunday Times
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Modernity uses - or rather abuses - the term equality in two incompatible and self-canceling ways and in a verbal sleight of exasperating slipperiness.
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
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Last year's profits were more the result of financial sleight of hand than genuine growth.
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Instead she just accepted this sleight of hand as a matter of brute fact.
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He accused Mr MacGregor of "sleight of hand".
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The rest is financial sleight of hand.
Times, Sunday Times
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The trick is done simply by sleight of hand.
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Any magician will tell you that misdirection is the first principle of sleight-of-hand tricks.
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The painter's orphic sleight of hand was abetted by arcane titles that conjure profligate aristocrats, sexual libertines, adepts of the dark arts and drugged esthetes.
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We now realize that much of Burt's research was presented with a statistical sleight of hand.
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Sleight was a genuine friend of deaf and dumb people.
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Besides, it is unlikely that wrestling, being more artificial and methodical than any other sort of exercise, should likewise be the most ancient; for mere want or necessity putting us upon new inventions, produces simple and inartificial things first, and such as have more of force in them than sleight and skill.
Essays and Miscellanies
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He accused Mr MacGregor of "sleight of hand".
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Learn how to do a one-handed cut to reveal cards with sleight of hand techniques from a real magician in this free card tricks video.
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If these wars can only be funded through this kind of sleight of hand, they maybe shouldn't be funded at all.
Rep. Alan Grayson: Funding the War: There Ought to Be a Rule Against This Kind of Rule
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They were continual concrete evidence of the sleight of hand which had conjured me from one world to another.
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But the outcome of all this financial sleight of hand is what sounds like the perfect home for your hard-earned savings.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fiddy's bedchamber, and by the mere sleight of hand of tying on a worked apron with vine clusters and leaves and tendrils all in purple and green floss silks, pinning a pink bow under her mob-cap, and sticking in her bosom a bunch of dewy ponceau polyanthuses, had beat him most completely.
Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
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But the same kind of sleight-of-hand is occurring here as with the climate debate.
Run and hit
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Last year's profits were more the result of financial sleight of hand than genuine growth.
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Better defenders than he would have been fooled by Özil's sleight of foot for the penalty.
Times, Sunday Times
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Built upon decades of lying, deceit and sleight of hand, the European Union has been carefully crafted from its beginnings as a simple treaty on shared access to coal and steel, through an ongoing succession of treaties over a 60-year period to the final implementation of an imperial constitution, as usual with a title masking its true nature, the Lisbon Treaty.
TheTrumpet.com: Front Page
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Last year's profits were more the result of financial sleight of hand than genuine growth.
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What we're faced with are psychic sharps, like card sharps: sleight of hand, sleight of mind.
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It is easy enough to see the appeal of magic performed by those skilled in sleight of hand and the art of illusion.
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It's also a brilliant sleight of hand: making the old seem daring.
Times, Sunday Times
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The original referred to a "sleight" against Jamie Carragher.
Jamie Carragher: 'I'm not on my last legs at Liverpool yet'
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Disgust and anger were widespread in the labour movement this week as more workers were diddled out of their entitlements in a corporate sleight-of-hand.
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Jugglery, sleight-of-hand, fencing and acrobatics provided variety.
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It takes a skilful sleight of hand to produce accessories and clothes that exude playfulness and desirability and yet are infused with practicality.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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But the most interesting aspect of the cliche is how it is used to hide a sleight of the materialist hand.
2009 July - Telic Thoughts
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It takes a skilful sleight of hand to produce accessories and clothes that exude playfulness and desirability and yet are infused with practicality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wordie Action Alert: Dictionary of American Regional English
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Formal drinking" is usually played after dinner and is more and more coming to take the place of charades, sleight-of-hand performances, magic lantern shows, "dumb crambo," et cetera, as the parlor amusement par excellence.
Perfect Behavior; a guide for ladies and gentlemen in all social crises
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Last year's profits were more the result of financial sleight of hand than genuine growth.
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I am always told, by those who purport to know, that there is a simple explanation for all conjuring tricks, but I think it is I who must be simple, because I continue to be completely stumped by all this sleight of hand.
