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There were fine nuggets of legerdemain, courtesy of the illusionist Paul Kieve.
Magick should not be confused with magic, which is the art of conjuring and legerdemain.
You'll have to be my cover until I press-gang him aboard with a bit of my much vaunted legerdemain.
Perhaps you would like to see a little bit of legerdemain, or a paltry amount of prestidigitation, or a conundrum of conjuring.
Convincing voter-taxpayers that they should pay for something available for free naturally requires some political legerdemain.
The target of the latter piece of legislative legerdemain is the Free Software movement itself.
In the year since Tyco was hit with charges of accounting legerdemain, the company kept making acquisitions, though it completed fewer big ones.
When that logic is exposed, as in this case, as intellectual legerdemain, he retreats to pitiful, pleading casuistry.
In some circles, ethics experts are infamous for just this kind of psychological legerdemain.
Zusi, who was not deposed for trial, denies that he ever made such threats or encouraged anyone to use accounting legerdemain to manage earnings.
Stripped to its essentials, her endeavor bestows a constitutional benediction upon the intellectual legerdemain that enables universities to practice racial discrimination.
It is so gloomy that it leaves no room even for legerdemain or for further misleading farmers.
We published our alternative report on the Treaty of Nice to try to make sure that the debate in France avoids this legerdemain.
I do not turn to Clarissa in times of duress, but then I am an unregenerate reader, too enthralled by Lovelace's legerdemain to linger over Richardson's edifying sentiments.
The latter is the insidious inflation dodge, a piece of legerdemain that governments have been using over centuries to take bigger and bigger bites of your property.
The EU's stability and growth pact sets stringent budget limits, yet these require accounts free of financial legerdemain.
So through a bit of legislative legerdemain, they are given the status of judicial decisions.
Readers are invited to imagine how Copperfield will pull off this magic coup, but we reckon it will involve a couple of balls, a cup and plenty of legerdemain.
Much to the satisfaction of legitimate entertainers, the book also expresses respect for the art of legerdemain, which it discusses using that very term.
What was the point of this sophisticated legerdemain with Ray's aliases?
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Examples from Classical Literature
To reason thus is to put subtlety into the cathedra of common-sense, to bewilder vision by legerdemain.
To reason thus is to put subtlety into the cathedra of common sense, to bewilder vision by legerdemain.
Winchester lay the fewest of miles away, but somewhere there was legerdemain.
Priests, however, tolerate no rivals, and permit no legerdemain but their own.
You would do, by a piece of legerdemain, what you have not the courage to attempt openly.
This title swings him into full view, stripped of all deception and legerdemain.
Conjuror has since become a name for a professor of legerdemain or sleight-of-hand.
Besides legislative legerdemain, there were two other key factors in the bill's passage.
He had prosecuted his studies, also, under a traveling sage who united the mysteries of medicine with magic and legerdemain.
A touch of legerdemain and my sword has passed into my left hand.
Who pays, is a fact buried in the arcana of aldermanic legerdemain.
Astonishing feats of preparation were consummated as if by legerdemain.
But this kind of logical legerdemain will never counteract the plain suggestions of justice and common-sense.
A correspondence school course in legerdemain, Steven explained.
By some legerdemain the Admiral found that he was clutching in his right hand one of the obnoxious bills.
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