How To Use Misdirection In A Sentence
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conjurers are experts at misdirection
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In my mind, I have a picture of the people I perceive to be acting in perpetuance of these misdirections.
Peace, order and good government, eh?: May 2006 Archives
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For reasons already given we do not accept that the judge's self-direction was vitiated by legal misdirection.
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Even more likely, it could be deliberate misdirection, a Nabokovian wink the author shares with the reader perspicacious enough to call his bluff.
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DEBT DEFAULT TIP: Misdirection is a great way to cut the breadline.
HUFFPOST HILL - That Crashing Sound You Hear Is Your Portfolio
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More piling on and misdirection from the Obama faithful.
Matthew Yglesias » Government for Sale
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection. Robert F. Kennedy
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This kind of B.S. misdirection is at the heart of pretty much every income tax overhaul scheme out there.
Matthew Yglesias » Tax Simplification and the Flat Tax
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Often, as is the case here, it is a handy tool for misdirection or a neat handle from which to hang accusations.
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Without this logical information review process, creativity will drown in misdirection.
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Misdirection: Items used while Misdirection is active will now consume a charge correctly.
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Misdirection is one of the prestidigitator's tools, after all, and Welles' flair for grotesquerie and offbeat humour are as much a part of the entertainment as the tortuous plot.
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A night of zany misdirection and bonding ensues.
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“What you described as a misdirection play,” e-mails an anonymous Sunday couch potato, “is really an influence block.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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(Though I "adduced" no sophistries or misdirections whatsoever and, Linda, you're not following the reasoning herein, I merely invoked Oresme as an earlier, counter example, not to slight or detract from Galileo's empirical data any more than I'd wish to slight or detract from Tycho Brahe's own methodology and system, relevant to that specific period - but all that begins to get into more arcane subject matter, as noted.)
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Hunches, guesses, insights, feelings, and intuitions lead to misdirection and error.
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These hermits, acting as their own spiritual guides, were easily led to excesses and misdirection.
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Agreed with hengst, just another thing to add on, if his compass is the type (as most are) with a rotating housing, he cant use the marking within the housing to keep on his original bearing, otherwise mistakes in shooting short bearings could result in compounding misdirection.
Quiz #2. The first one went OK, here is another.
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You have apparently managed to rationalise this to yourself in terms of a pseudo-Stoic teleological sophistry in which every passion has a "final cause" -- an essential purpose -- such that action at odds with these essential purposes represents an immoral "disordering" of the appetites, an unacceptable misdirection from their natural/mandatory objects.
Archive 2009-08-01
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Other than as pure misdirection from the better known gas and/or carbon taxes, the VMT is about getting people to drive less, regardless of what they drive.
Matthew Yglesias » VMT Madness
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I have created a special folder in which I toss notes on short problems with answers that are based on some sort of joke, swindle, misdirection, or other kind of flimflammery.
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Martinez-Conde is particularly interested in misdirection, and the question of what it is about certain movements that attract and hold our attention.
Stage magic isn’t statecraft « Isegoria
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But now with one quality control fiasco after another, it seems like finger-pointing for misdirection from the real problem.
Smug Ugly - Anil Dash
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Without this logical information review process, creativity will drown in misdirection.
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But I think the entire series of misdirection is itself indicative of a larger, more audacious slight of hand, one that most people overlook by the time the absolutely brilliant and insane last few scenes arrive.
Seeing Double: April Fool’s Day / Happy Birthday to Me » Scene-Stealers
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Any magician will tell you that misdirection is the first principle of sleight-of-hand tricks.
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Here we see the furtive behavior of Tomik as a desperate need to connect, and even, given his repression, as an understandable misdirection of desire.
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So they are attempting some "misdirection" -- calling attention to Ryan's two-year-old budget road map, which proposes difficult entitlement reforms.
RealClearPolitics - Homepage
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It's ethical prestidigitation with ‘moral equivalence’ used for misdirection only.
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Misdirection is one of the prestidigitator's tools, after all, and Welles' flair for grotesquerie and offbeat humour are as much a part of the entertainment as the tortuous plot.
