prestidigitator

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• From this verbal prestidigitator, we imbibe the lesson that both storyteller and con man make us willing victims. A Small-Town Sorcerer Casts His Spell
• He's a self-confessed rebel, a ‘poet-in-the-sky’, a prestidigitator who can do conjuring tricks and pick a pocket or two.
• The more convincing the painting, the greater the paradox that it was but a reflection or shadow, and the more the painter looked like a prestidigitator.
• Well-meaning pedants may wonder why so gifted a verbal prestidigitator as Mr. Ives has resorted so often to imperfect rhymes, each one of which diminishes the hectic glitter of the play's verbal surface by a tiny but measurable increment. Flying Couplets and Canapés
• … the Amazing Larri, ‘a prestidigitator, an escapist extraordinaire, and the greatest living exposeur.’
• The term "volunteer" is used loosely; following in the grand tradition of mildly pervy prestidigitators, Wuthergloom/Woolfe has a tendency to select the most attractive, young women in attendance to participate. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
• Even Jeremiah Wright, an embarrassing pastor who would probably have brought down a less-deft political prestidigitator, will not do in Barack Obama. Obama's Other Radical Friends
• For all his brilliance as the theater's foremost prestidigitator of language and thought, Stoppard is a conservative who, like Einstein himself, resists the idea that chance is the "" mother '' of reality. What Happens When Spies Collide
• As when a prestidigitator plucks a coin from someone's ear, two knives simply appeared in Karl's paws.
• In fact, it's probably safe to say that no other place in the world can boast as high a population of prestidigitators as Sin City.