prestidigitation

How To Use prestidigitation In A Sentence

• The blow was struck: henceforth the interpreters and all those who had dealings with the Arabs received orders to make them understand that my pretended miracles were only the result of skill, inspired and guided by an art called prestidigitation, in no way connected with sorcery. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life
• Alongside diehard Thaksinite protesters, stand middle-class Thais who do not care for Mr Thaksin but are disgusted by the political prestidigitation that toppled two elected governments.
• We do not understand how they came to have this authority over our elected politicians; and we do not understand how we may remove them from office, since they seem to have simply appeared, by Prescottian prestidigitation.
• That last bit -- essentially blaming study design for placebo response rates -- is the kind of prestidigitation that passes for science in psychiatry these days. Furious Seasons
• In a display of fine and somehow entirely Hispanic prestidigitation, he makes the fish his yo-yo.
• The twin deficits will continue to baffle commentators who are too dim-witted to understand that they have fallen victim to clever prestidigitation.
• The piano is usually thought of as the more orchestral keyboard instrument, but Hantaï's prestidigitation just about put the harpsichord on equal footing. Authentication keys
• Trying to prove that prestidigitation is easy once you know the secret, the foreign know-it-all explains the basics of magic.
• If you buy into such narrative bribery and presentational prestidigitation, you'll gladly go along with whatever is offered.
• But in fact his very impatience, which makes him barge his way through the first couple of minutes of the piece, produces the most incredible feats of prestidigitation.