black art
Example Sentences
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He has said that during the day he was a scheduler but at night, he was "trafficking in the black arts."
From Salon
"All dental students are trained to make dentures but the black art of making them is being lost as they are not getting the practice," he says.
From BBC
These streets of mud, in which the dead were laid out, also swarmed with “a wicked generation of pretenders to magic, to the black art, as they called it.”
From New York Times
It is home to one of the city’s most enviable collections of 19th and 20th-century black art, at the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum.
From Washington Times
Vendors sold local black art and offered free paint and canvasses.
From Washington Post
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