sleight

Centuries have gone into the making of these rules and assumptions — and a bit of sleight of hand, as well.

Brate studies the way Kelce moves, the subtle steps and sleights he uses to come open with staggering frequency, even when the defense knows his quarterback will probably target him.

He said it met state carbon emissions reduction mandates by sleight of hand and was legal only on a technicality.

Like any good suspense novelist, Shields is a master of evasion and sleight-of-hand.

To posit that the war brings us closer to faith is a sleight of hand that makes fools of us all.

He does the heavy lifting, and she passes it off with a sleight of hand.

Catching Fire perpetuates an ideological vision that, today, is a sleight-of-hand.

This option creates bad optics as well, because it looks like the old pork-barrel log rolling and legislative sleight-of-hand.

The old sleight-of-hand expert had stolen it, sure, and slipped it under his robe.

Just think: after five years of desertion, and trouble without end, and it all put right by a little sleight-of-hand.

They were also adepts in tricks of sleight of hand, and had no mean acquaintance with what is called natural magic.

This can be accomplished in several ways, either mechanically or purely by sleight of hand.

He shot out his hand and produced his watch with the celerity of a sleight-of-hand performer.