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artful trickery designed to achieve an end
the senator's tax program was mere jugglery - the performance of a juggler
How To Use jugglery In A Sentence
- the senator's tax program was mere jugglery
- The performance of jugglery with balls, words and other inventions is sure to leave the audience spellbound.
- It is what some are pleased to call jugglery," he answered, with a light, hard laugh. Can Such Things Be?
- Judicial response to human rights cannot be blunted by legal jugglery. Outlook India
- We witnessed amazing feats of clowning, jugglery, and acrobatics.
- This is the kind of jugglery that has gone all through the [budget] document," he says. What's Behind Rural India's Budget Bonanza?
- For those who might still dilly-dally whether to go for this jugglery show, here is what a leading critic has to say about them: "A very refined show in a very poetic slow motion ballet."
- The performance is not only a jugglery show, but a play with plenty of animation.
- He plots it with a series of crazy twists and sequences, word play and jugglery, and some seriously funny macabre humour.
- In like manner, he seems to disagree with Burke in a passage which he quotes, but in reality he agrees with him; for surely the "power of the imitation" is but a power of the "jugglery," to be sensible of which, if we understand him, is necessary to our sense of imitation. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.