sleight

Mr. Guimarães makes a metaphor of the importance of individual rights with his first bit of sleight of hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The case turns on a sleight of hand. and once you see it, you’ll spot it everywhere.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

Bellingham showed superb sleight of foot in the build-up to England's second goal.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

But Beethoven also questions every sentiment in the Mass. Grandeur can so suddenly turn solemn that it feels almost a ceremonial sleight of hand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

But what seem to be supernatural events are really sleight of hand.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

That’s what Thompson is offering on “Never Be the Same”: no magic tricks or sleights of hand, but songs that listeners will feel and live.

From Salon ● May 15, 2026

Confronted with the rules of fair play, the reader was enjoined to solve the case alongside the detective, which required seeing through the author’s sleights of hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

Otis rebuffed San Francisco’s sleights in the same way Lynyrd Skynyrd responded in “Sweet Home Alabama” to Neil Young’s anti-Southern insults: by “singin’ songs about the Southland.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025

Ostensibly recounted with nothing but clinical curiosity, the transgressive patient’s evasions, provocations and sleights of hand are in this way craftily enacted by the novel itself.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2021

I watched as he demonstrated tricks and sleights of hand he learned from Yorick, but I never dared to speak to him.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein