sleight-of-hand

• Its plan to sell more than half of the asset-management division while retaining more than half of its profit smacks of sleight-of-hand. —  IntelliBriefs
• Many on the left have fallen prey to the sleight-of-hand smoke and mirror trickery of the purveyors of the neoliberal economic agenda. —  Venezuela Analysis
• This is mercantile capitalism in action, the production of 'wealth' by sleight-of-hand. —  Atlantic Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Free Press Group, Alternative Opinion, Progressive Media
• In "The Prestige," an aggressively devious sleight-of-hand thriller directed by Christopher Nolan, the magic tricks are powered by currents of electricity and danger. —  RNews - TOP STORIES
• My attention was piqued and sustained throughout his entire performance, the brevity yet richness of which made me feel as though some odd trick had just been played on the passage of time, some legerdemain, some sleight-of-hand, right there in front of everyone in the room!

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