How To Use Trickery In A Sentence

But there was an element of delusion, mild trickery even, about this process.
Modder River, when all day long most of our men were quite unable to discover on which side of the stream the Boer entrenchments were, and in what they called clever trickery, but we called treachery, they are absolutely unsurpassable. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
The main victim here is the “abstentionist” movement who is told that the main trickery of Chavez IS NOT the electoral registry, at least at presidential election level. Electoral registry irregularities and Perez Oramas on the uselessness of voting
My family's name has been besmirched by your victory over me, but your trickery can't hope to save you now.
But this isn't computer trickery. Times, Sunday Times

Many of the great moves are down to camera trickery, but I have picked up a few party tricks! The Sun
Show makers used green screen trickery to make the stars fly. The Sun
The film may not be as elegant as the previous financial procedurals, and Costa-Gavras' brief forays into cinematic trickery threaten our suspension of disbelief.
This show is the story of his short career in confidence trickery.
Barry, it was pleasant seeing you today in the cafeteria. Barry I saw that you purchased the chef's salad. Apparently, you did not know that the chef's salad is kitchen trickery to utilize scrap meat.
Sometimes the road to illusion is created by hoaxers, people who engage in deliberate acts of trickery with the aim of proving how gullible other people can be when a skillful imposture is presented.
To ensnare or prevail over with trickery.
The government, he said, had resorted to political trickery in their attempts to retain power.
The NHS is being distorted by trickery and ruses.
Both players can produce pace and trickery on the wing. Times, Sunday Times
Lorenzo is furious with Launcelot and his insubordinate trickery.
Black holes are just the kind of cosmic phenomena that can pull this sort of trickery off because they are the baddest, beastliest things in the universe. I’m Working on That
Often they resorted to psychological trickery such as planting a seeming dumb boy to come as a suppliant to the temple and then to recover his voice.
The religion which has taught men truth -- above all things, _truth_ -- which teaches utter horror of a lie, which insists on the bare, bald reality in heaven and earth, which has taught men hatred of the false as the meanest and most unmanly thing existing -- this religion took its rise in claptrap miracles, was puffed into popularity by boasting pretensions, was born in trickery and nurtured by legerdemain! Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
The Hyksos was a master of trickery and manipulation, and it would not be easy to lie to him. The War of the Crowns
There is a heavy dose of French farce with its crude language and plots based on trickery. The Times Literary Supplement
Hermes is god of communication, deceit, language, trickery, and magic.
It would be cruel, but a pirate who ever dared such trickery and deceit would ask for no better.
If you enjoy cinematic trickery and innovative camerawork, there is a lot to like here.
The story is the stuff great romantic comedies are made of with lies and trickery on both sides, pushing and pulling to our delight, until all is revealed in a side-splitting yet eye-watering climax.
A new website gives dads the chance to swap places with their youngsters with the help of some computer trickery. The Sun
Whereupon Jack, calling the coxswain up out of the boat alongside for the purpose of keeping an eye upon things generally, and seeing that no trickery was attempted, went forward to the fore deck, where about three hundred men, women, and children were drawn up in four lines or ranks, two on each side of the deck. The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection
More recent trickery with carbon nanotubes really caught my attention, and then last week came the dual announcements of easily extrudable nanotube ribbons and diamond-nanotube composites with very interesting properties. Making Materials Fun | Impact Lab
That provides some amount of protection against the different kinds of frauds and trickery that could be played on voters by malicious computer hackery.
The thrower had used trickery to circumvent the criteria laid down in Law 15.
Weak in the challenge and susceptible to pace and trickery in defence. Times, Sunday Times
A repeat of his old trickery will ignite calls for fighting to start
It is the camerawork in this film, however, that is granted the smartest trickery, gets the best laughs, and the cleverest lines.
The carack was Strom's trump card, his best guarantee against the trickery of his associates. The Conquering Sword Of Conan
Rather than employing digital trickery or using the old-fashioned method of re-editing, he elected to blot out the offending material by a huge red block.
In Medieval Europe, wolves acquired a pungent reputation for trickery and ferocity.
So her natural lumps and bumps have magically disappeared through computer trickery, far right. The Sun
The first embraces trickery and cunning, the second embraces manipulation and deception, with no lie being too great, no friendship not worth betraying.
Using the word trickery implies duplicitousness on Nature's part.
Lorelei had become experienced with this devilry of trickery because this was what she had been doing for the 365 days since that day far, far away.
And he took the hollow lyre and laid it in his sacred cradle, and sprang from the sweet-smelling hall to a watch-place, pondering sheer trickery in his heart — deeds such as knavish folk pursue in the dark night-time; for he longed to taste flesh. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
The deception and trickery used for gain in America is not left out in this book.
There is a heavy dose of French farce with its crude language and plots based on trickery. The Times Literary Supplement
Of course there are levels of inauthenticity, from reference and emulation to willful trickery, parody and outright forgery.
The new system should help remove the optical trickery that occurs when assistant referees fail to position themselves correctly on the sidelines.
But a demo or live show takes the musician out of the safety net of retakes and production trickery that a recording studio provides.
For myself, I care nothing for the gift of interpretation, and far less for that dreadful type of effete facility which produces a kind of hocus-pocus technical brilliancy which fuddles the eye with a trickery, and produces upon the untrained and uncritical mind a kind of unintelligent hypnotism. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
The Zen Attraction system, while highly unconventional, is 100% ethical and does not involve any kind trickery or hypnosis. Freddy Nightmare | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
That sort of element of surprise keeps me intrigued by transparent materials and trickery - how you can fool the eye with light and shadows cast.
But he understands how to expose a defense and has been known to use some trickery.
This revolt against ideas is carried so far that able men have come seriously to look upon progress as a matter for the manipulation of wirepullers, something to be 'jobbed' in committee by sophistical motions or other clever trickery. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement
If it was called magic we would have expected some trickery and sleight of hand.
This is one of the most barefaced and dishonest pieces of government trickery in living memory,’ he said.
Trickery is not the path of wisdom but of disaster for a diplomat.
It is expensive, but there is very little trickery with the pricing and the convenience and quality are genuine enough. Food Watch
Using such trickery as flea-flickers, halfback-option passes, and tackle-eligible plays, the Jets have been one of the most unpredictable teams in the league, yet have remained fundamentally sound.
There's an all too willing readiness to equate soul with slick studio trickery and note-perfect vocal acrobatics, as if the expense and extravagance of the production shows just how much they mean it; and this comes at a heavy price.
No need for digital trickery there. Times, Sunday Times
It holds that pure and honest legislators cannot spring from filth and trickery, and in subservience to this view, discountenances the unfair conduction of general elections, and favors the extension, by law, of the "Australian ballot" to the primary election of all political parties. The Principles of the Republican Party: A Rare Unpublished Jack London Essay
Not everyone knows it, but a very great deal of what happens in warfare is simple trickery. Further into OH Man's Land...and giant cowboys
There's a great deal more here than just visual trickery though.
Negatively this card represents trickery or deception and is a warning to be careful of whom you place your trust in.
It is trickery, it is debauchery, it is an attempt to make a box office killing in the name of an artist's licence of creativity.
Autumn, or Bacchus's Trickery of Erigone is one of a pair of oddly shaped canvases, perhaps meant to fit into rococo mouldings, which celebrate Spring and Autumn.
He saw the unfairness of it all, the hopelessness of it, the cowardly subterfuge and trickery of life itself as it had played against him, and with tightly set lips and clenched hands he called mutely on God Almighty to play the game square. The River's End
His speed and trickery can inject life into a team and a game. The Sun
For myself, I care nothing for the gift of interpretation, and far less for that dreadful type of effete facility which produces a kind of hocus-pocus technical brilliancy which fuddles the eye with a trickery, and produces upon the untrained and uncritical mind a kind of unintelligent hypnotism. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
In a film genre simply awash with studio backlots and blue screen trickery, this film has its own distinctive look.
As he puts it, regardless of what lab trickery you might see on "grotesque fascist forensic-porn wallow CSI", in the real world "audio is rather more messy and the associative comprehension of human meatware still blows away digital signal processing". Boing Boing
The Olympic Games were never free from professionalism, trickery or violence.
There is a heavy dose of French farce with its crude language and plots based on trickery. The Times Literary Supplement
Nor does compositional trickery involving the multi-layering of three pre-recorded quartets. Times, Sunday Times
Who are all those journalists who've accused the company of flimflammery and carnival barker trickery in their public shows?
His pace, sudden bursts of acceleration and trickery down the left flank was just too hot for Toon to handle. The Sun
There is a heavy dose of French farce with its crude language and plots based on trickery. The Times Literary Supplement
This is a young player with pace, trickery, awareness and a great eye for goal. The Sun
For their self-proclaimed heir to use visual trickery may seem a cop-out, or a challenge whose rewards do not make it worth accepting.
They were often magicians and practiced sleight of hand, and their use of trickery smacked of deceit. A Short Guide to Writing About History
The producers used body doubles and some digital trickery to fill in the gaps. Times, Sunday Times
Liberalism "describes the" practical reformer "so that anybody can recognize him:" This revolt against ideas is carried so far that able men have come seriously to look upon progress as a matter for the manipulation of wire-pullers, something to be 'jobbed' in committee by sophistical notions or other clever trickery. A Preface to Politics
Sometimes, she gets lost within her own songs; sometimes, she gets lost within her own round-robin multi-tracking trickery.
The story is the stuff great romantic comedies are made of with lies and trickery on both sides, pushing and pulling to our delight, until all is revealed in a side-splitting yet eye-watering climax.
Someone will probably fall for Peploe's trickery and start rhapsodizing about how inventive her interpretation is.
Many still consider it to be the best war photograph, but its reputation has been dogged for 30 years by allegations of possible camera trickery. Times, Sunday Times
But this material is so swamped in trickery and knavery that its inclusion becomes worthless.
It _did_ take a dozen men in full armor to kill the armorless Pizarro, and even then it took trickery and treachery to do it. Despoilers of the Golden Empire
There is a lot of trickery going on in the carnival, as Ben quickly discovers.
Sceptics have suggested that there must be some trickery involved.
And he took the hollow lyre and laid it in his sacred cradle, and sprang from the sweet-smelling hall to a watch-place, pondering sheer trickery in his heart -- deeds such as knavish folk pursue in the dark night-time; for he longed to taste flesh. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
It took me a long time to see any form of rhetoric as more than trickery which played upon the accidents of language.
They were often magicians and practiced sleight of hand, and their use of trickery smacked of deceit. A Short Guide to Writing About History
There is laptop trickery (bad wipes and awkward cuts) throughout the concert.
Fans claimed the team missed his pace and trickery. The Sun
They declared that they could detect no trickery and that the horse was genuinely telepathic.
But when the little fluorite spun halfway around, I knew this was a sign to reverse the rune and change the meaning to trickery and lies. Arcane Circle
And yet to save a trifling outlay compared with the injustice now done, the representative of Her Majesty is compelled to carry about under his skirts a parcel of convictism; to deposit these tokens of imperial interest he is driven to have recourse to artifice, trickery and falsehood. A Source Book of Australian History
He recreates the 1960s in this true-life tale of a teenage runaway's audacious trail of trickery.
His pace, sudden bursts of acceleration and trickery down the left flank was just too hot for Toon to handle. The Sun
They learned that trickery, lies, deceit, intentionally feigned ignorance and any other unethical behavior required to protect their bonus pools is what pays in the end. Mike Stark: Confidence Game Kills a Zombie Lie (Well, Sorta...)
Their academy coaches have always recognised the pace and trickery of the winger who has now added consistency to his game. Times, Sunday Times
The man was marvellous, nonchalantly building to crescendos with the fine-tuned trickery of an old master.
His limitations as a leader and the trickery in his political dealings are compellingly exposed.
To call it verbalism seems to degrade intellectual detachment to stylistic trickery but the facts are complex.
There is so much deceit and trickery about this mob that it needs to be categorised.
What's more, French cars these days are priced well below the German rivals and come as standard with all sorts of electronic trickery such as rain-sensing wipers and tyre-pressure sensors to make them even more appealing.
But this year you can use camera trickery to instantly shed a stone - without Photoshop. The Sun
With all the visual trickery it offers, it doesn't really give you much opportunity to think and analyze it in such detail.
Each manufacturer has an exotic name for its own school of digital trickery. Times, Sunday Times
Appreciation of successful opponents and consideration for the vanquished can be made effectually to supplant the cheap, blatant spirit which seeks to attribute one's defeat to trickery and chance and uses one's victory as an occasion for bemeaning the vanquished. The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work
You look at their forward line, they have a lot of pace and trickery. The Sun
It is expensive, but there is very little trickery with the pricing and the convenience and quality are genuine enough. Food Watch
However, it is evident that if someone who does not claim any manipulatory skill were to be able to perform the find-the-chosen-card effect without resorting to trickery, it would upset every notion of the universe as we know it.
Computer trickery also helps make them appear impossibly beautiful. The Sun
What you term culinary trickery ought to cause you to reflect and confront those implicit assumptions that you thought you had and let you experience it afresh, stripped of those preconceptions. The Art and Craft of Modernist Cooking
Each manufacturer has an exotic name for its own school of digital trickery. Times, Sunday Times
There’s economic sense in delegating menial tasks, but the consumer retail market has gone down the path of “just good enough”, setting up an ever-faster upgrade/replacement cycle — the flipside of the coin to the financial trickery described upthread — and if the need arose to return to a “built to last” model for consumer durables, would the skills and infrastructure still be there? Matthew Yglesias » What’s Not the Matter With American Manufacturing
Art or artifice is also used to describe cunning and trickery.
He uses examples from a biblical hall of fame of female villains and vixens - Delilah is one - to warn women not to engage in various forms of deceit or trickery to land, or keep, a man.
Are you trying to say, Justin, that these blessed people are using trickery, skullduggery, flimflammery, shams, pretence, to ply their trade?
Music, myth, trickery and water all create a fantastical realm. Smithsonian
One of the professed objects of the Brook Farm association was, to escape from the evils of the great world, -- from the trickery of trade, the pedantry of colleges, the flunkyism of office, and the arrogant pretensions of wealth. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Struggled with pace and trickery of Thomas. The Sun
They're visual trickery in fash form, a 12 quid inroad to cool. What I bought this week: witty tights
Call it bullshit, call it bologna, call it mind trickery or group hysteria, just don't call me crying when a freezing cold vapor-mist tries to push you out of a fourth story window in the Alexandria Hotel. The 12 Scariest Haunted Places In Los Angeles
They are notorious for resorting to trickery in order to impress their clients.
His pace, sudden bursts of acceleration and trickery down the left flank was just too hot for Toon to handle. The Sun
Cameras are very complex devices full of electronic trickery and mechanical movements.
But once upon a time, he had to use trickery for such a treat. The Sun
The left back showed electrifying pace, trickery and endeavour to get beyond the defence. Times, Sunday Times
Similar trickery explains why the Government wants to criminalise the wearing of face paint or silly masks on demonstrations.
Remember that what we are talking about here is not side-show illusionist trickery or spoon benders.
Then I was taught street fighting, thievery, burglary, and trickery.
A mentalist is a performer who uses trickery and deception to create the illusion of having paranormal or supernatural powers.
But like his brother in arms, Colonel Cash, of the Eighth, and brother turfman, he became disgusted with the thievery and trickery of later day sports and quit the turf, still owning at his death some of the most noted racers of the times, Granger Lynchburg, John Payne, History of Kershaw's Brigade
The illusionist and 'mentalist' performs startling trickery. Times, Sunday Times
I think you can use rough interrogation, you may be able to use trickery, questions.
I am only better than him through trickery and he meant me no harm.
It is through his attempt to get Givens to confess to his trickery that the narrator comes to realize the conceits he has constructed about himself.
Yet I felt no challenge of will; only that some false and subtle trickery had been used.
With all the visual trickery it offers, it doesn't really give you much opportunity to think and analyze it in such detail.
They're visual trickery in fash form, a 12 quid inroad to cool. What I bought this week: witty tights
It might be worth a second viewing just to catch all of the cinematic trickery employed.
The sonic trickery can get a little wearing, but there's always a heart-melting tune or a catchy chorus to provide an emotional anchor.
There is no music, no colour, no trickery: only an actress, a bare stage and light.
Bad management, business naivete, and outright trickery resulted in years of legal tussles and lost revenue.

How To Use Trickery In A Sentence

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