con-trick

Goodbye fiat money, it was all based upon a con-trick, but Greenspan, King and Bernanke have effectively destroyed the myth.

Gold demand hit 10-year high last year 2011

On one level Ishiguro seems to be saying that art is a con-trick, like religion; that it obscures from us the knowledge or awareness of our own mortality, knowledge that in the case of the Hailsham children is brutally withheld.

Rereading: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 2011

Forbes is well worth a read to understand the great con-trick that is UNWRA and the Palestinian "refugees".

More on UNWRA Not a sheep 2009

But then, it has long been said that fashion is a con-trick by largely gay male designers to make women look more like men: breastless, hipless, as skinny as a boy.

Reality TV's the only way to move up in this world | Carole Cadwalladr 2011

Just like the other con-trick: the divine global warming saga.

Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

The large blue caterpillar survives by performing an elaborate con-trick, encouraging ants to take it into their underground colonies, where it turns parasite and feeds on ant grubs all winter before pupating and crawling out of the ants 'nest as a butterfly in June.

Large blue butterfly flying high again 2010

The only talent that artists now need is for attracting attention, Scruton complains; the contemporary art-world is a con-trick.

Scruton on art and beauty 2009

The only talent that artists now need is for attracting attention, Scruton complains; the contemporary art-world is a con-trick.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

The institution of manager is something of a con-trick.

Do Football Managers Make a Difference? 2009

They have yet to release the formal results of thier con-trick.

Making people like Vista? 2008