prestidigitation

Still, the biggest act of prestidigitation is yet to come, and actually occurs after Pence provides his proof texts.

Leaning into the sideshow kitsch of a superhero movie about a flying magician in an anthropomorphic cape, Raimi — in a marvelous act of movie prestidigitation — has pulled a cute rabbit from the old Disney hat.

Later, in an act of popcorn-movie prestidigitation, all memory of yet another character is erased.

You could argue that this is all prestidigitation, the conjuring of money from nothing.

I can see giddy children dazzling parents with this bit of classic prestidigitation.