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sleight of hand
1. With a backhanded sleight of hand,
2. Jacoba pushed the coins to Nem, then held out his hands palm down and fingers spread, then turned them palms up to show he hadn’t used any sleight of hand to sneak any of the coins away
3. Time and space, the world around us, all that we perceive as reality is at best a sleight of hand, a trick, a house of cards
4. If reality is a sleight of hand, a magic trick at best, my father used his cards to get me to safety
5. First, we touched on the concept of God—where I’ll admit that I might have employed a certain sleight of hand (in the holy spirit of the means
6. With sleight of hands, he
7. Freud's "discovery" of the Oedipus complex was applied to male children and later extended to females with a sleight of hand so clumsy that it
8. she was a magician or adept at sleight of hand
9. club or was a master at sleight of hand, there would have been no
10. With practiced sleight of hand, he drained the phial to mix with the dregs in Marsh’s glass, then moved back to a table and watched
11. It turned out that she beat him not by sleight of hand, but by memorizing the cards
12. Some trick or sleight of hand which could explain something as mysterious as thought reading
13. He was a past master of the sleight of hand with accounts and tax people, and an old and ruthless tamer of workers and labor
14. Should have left it at sleight of hand
15. When the urbane owner of Chester’s stalks in, the accusations escalate, all now directed toward him and his sleight of hand
16. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make as good money! An obliging stranger, under pretence of compactly folding up my bank-notes for security's sake, abstracts the notes and gives me nutshells; but what is his sleight of hand to mine, when I fold up my own nutshells and pass them on myself as notes!
17. Then, stooping, he jerked the boy to his shoulders with an ease that looked like sleight of hand
18. Like most magical market ideas, this one is based on sleight of hand
19. And with the agility of a monkey, flinging back his hair, tearing off his spectacles, and withdrawing from his nose by sleight of hand the two quills of which mention was recently made, and which the reader has also met with on another page of this book, he took off his face as the man takes off his hat
20. Careful readers (this time one had to read to page 34) were rewarded with a peculiarly hard-to-follow sleight of hand
21. While the financials could have been more specific, a rookie analyst could certainly tell that the business was not what it appeared and that selling assets and investing the proceeds in financial markets was not a great long-term strategy, that nothing was getting fixed with Agee's sleight of hand but the appearance of earnings in the very short run