prestidigitation

• “Where's The Club? was a rambling, Randy Newman-style ballad; Twenty Twenty Vision veered left into bluegrass; and Spider Fingers included the first and presumably last use of the word "prestidigitation" in popular song.”

  Evening Standard - Home

• “The blow was struck: henceforth the interpreters and all those who had dealings with the Arabs received orders to make them understand that my pretended miracles were only the result of skill, inspired and guided by an art called prestidigitation, in no way connected with sorcery.”

  Memoirs of Robert-Houdin

• “For those of you who love to expand your vocabulary to include words like "prestidigitation," bookmark and use often!”

  Optimism Is In The Air As New Ideas Percolate - Cory Treffiletti - MediaBizBlogger

• “He steps forward and asks her to spell a list of much more difficult words, "prestidigitation" and "pulchritude" among them.”

  Rachel Pine: Floats Like a Butterfly, Stings Like A Spelling Bee

• “It's a gag pile-up, with a funny moment packed into practically every second of the short, whether it's a broadly played physical gag (Bugs pulling himself out of the magician's hat by his own ears, holding himself suspended in the air without explanation), or a nice turn of phrase (I love the fact that this film makes a gag out of the inability to say "prestidigitation").”

  Archive 2007-12-01

• “That last bit -- essentially blaming study design for placebo response rates -- is the kind of prestidigitation that passes for science in psychiatry these days.”

  Furious Seasons

• “The piano is usually thought of as the more orchestral keyboard instrument, but Hantaï's prestidigitation just about put the harpsichord on equal footing.”

  Authentication keys

• “While Butterworth acknowledges that the worlds he creates Online aren't as labor-intensive as the model-building he engaged in as a youth, he feels that the games industry has become, in effect, "a tribal elder for the world's teenagers, pushing them through ever more complex feats of prestidigitation.”

  The Huffington Post: Delia Lloyd: Five Virtues of Video Games

• “If there is fault to be found, it's in the authorial prestidigitation with which Mrs. Wickham is spirited off-stage for a stay with distant relatives—sparing her the need to answer any questions about a quarrel she witnessed that night in the coach, a quarrel whose nature puzzles many characters for most of the book.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Mr. & Mrs. Darcy To the Rescue

• “Look, it's not like this little bit of prestidigitation has snowed anybody in the government, they just do not care.”

  The Huffington Post: Blackwater And Private Security Firms Just Can't Be Disqualified From Winning Lucrative Government Contracts, No Matter What They Do

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