Yet nowadays, he has little time for sleights of hand.
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Williams is an ideal lead for such narrative sleights of hand.
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Government accounting tricks and sleights-of-hand conceal much of what they owe.
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The conclusion might be correct, but it's cheapened by Dann's sleights of hand.
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" Howard is one of the great sleights-of-hand by the writers of "Saul.
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From his love of TV westerns, he learned the sleights of hand used by cardsharps.
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Medical providers defraud Medicare; bankers perform sleights of hand with the markets and destroy the commonweal.
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These actions appear to reveal cloddish sleights of hand rather than the expression of earnest principles.
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Toward the end, Mr. Farr employs familiar cinematic sleights of hand, but with a finely calibrated touch.
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He has consistently used rhetorical sleights of hand to say outrageous things without being held responsible for them.
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This is a movie that tries to ravish your senses so thoroughly you may not notice its sleights of hand.
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Prices for basic or mid-tier rooms can be surprisingly affordable, but remember, Vegas is all about sleights of hand.
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He has been a vociferous critic of ObamaCare's failures, including the parliamentary sleights of hand Democrats used in order to force its passage.
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Besides their tendency to be adopted as bad faith, rhetorical sleights-of-hand, calls for civility have another, perhaps more insidious, consequence: deflecting blame.
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Such sleights of hand in accounting are more prevalent in the Senate plan, which makes many of its cuts temporary or delays their enforcement.
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For one thing, civility arguments are mostly bullshit rhetorical sleights-of-hand designed to shift focus from the substance of a critique to its tone.
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It lays bare the tricks, quirks, and hacks that make up the finished product—and each episode is filled with these kinds of sleights of hand.
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But mostly, these moments — which are harrowing and unforgettable — are sleights of hand designed to trick the player into thinking they have control of a movie.
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Although there is plenty to admire in the ambitious scope of this book, ultimately it is a glib work, full of corner-cutting sleights of hand and unsatisfactory generalisations.
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Such editing-suite sleights of hand may displease purists, and so will an insistent score by Philip Glass, whose melodious montage glue has become something of a documentary cliché.
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Wordplay It's so nice to start a new year with a cryptic; they're very artisanal, I think, finely crafted little jewel boxes of puns and clever verbal sleights of hand.
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If you're not curious about how technology works and are easily distracted by sleights of hand, you're probably disappointed with the first round of impressions of Magic Leap's mixed reality headset.
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With some European equipment suppliers cutting off sales because of the sanctions, wineries resort to false shipping labels or other sleights of hand to obscure the actual destination of the goods.
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Call it a meme, call it an extremely esoteric dance move, call it a kitchen knife accident waiting to happen, but folks on social media are showcasing their creative sleights of hand.
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"The way he has made Republicans think cozying up to Russia is OK is one of his amazing sleights of hand," said Bruce Jentleson, a Democratic foreign policy specialist at Duke University.
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"Opportunities exist for smoke and mirrors, sleights of hand and confusion on the part of the consumer," said Katherine Klein, head of the Social Impact Initiative at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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There are two basic sleights of hand underlying this series of photographs by Dawoud Bey: one, that the landscape might have appeared like this to one fleeing a former master by way of the Underground Railroad in the well of night.
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Her novel bears rereading, to reveal pleasing ironies (the boy loses the "little red book about lost children" on a train) and stylistic sleights of hand (that little red book begins in much the same way as "Lost Children" itself).
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In reality, du Coeuret (later Lesage — in a nice pun, he abandons his "coeur") is a convict recently released from the galleys, his crimes "impieties and sacrileges" and his talents tarot card readings and sleights of hand involving wax balls and sulfur.
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That's how Frank Langella won the Tony Award for "The Father," raging spectacularly as a man in the throes of dementia — except that, by various sleights of hand, the playwright made it seem as if we in the audience were demented instead.
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But Republicans have made a bet that "their" Texas will turn out to vote in just enough numbers to win, as long as the party manages to whittle down the rest of the electorate through sleights of hand like voter ID laws and gerrymandering.
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The show is full of such indirections, sleights of hand, and double-takes: Merrill Wagner, whose handsome, four-decade mini-retrospective is currently running at the gallery of the New York Studio School, contributes quasi-geometric works in tape on Plexiglas, completed between 1975 and '21979.
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"The dangerous experimentations and the sleights of hand" conducted by the electoral commission, as well as the "military maneuvers ordered by the government have put in place a parody of a plebiscite that I cannot support as a candidate, voter, and citizen of Congo," Mr. Shekomba said.
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Paying workers below the legal minimum wage, not paying for overtime hours worked, forcing workers to work off-the-clock or, for workers on federal contracts, not paying the proper wage rate for their occupation, are just some of the sleights-of -hand that employers engage in to cheat workers.
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The book received highly positive reviews from critics. The New York Observer stated: "Witz . . . "[is] the sort of postmodern epic that arrives like a comet about once every decade, like Infinite Jest or Gravity's Rainbow. Like any epic, it defies summary and overflows with puns, allusions, digressions, authorial sleights of hand and structural gags-in the tradition of Thomas Pynchon, James Joyce, Jonathan Swift and Laurence Sterne.
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As they are the movie's "central dramatic piece", the encoffining ceremonies in Departures have received extensive commentary. Mike Scott, for instance, wrote in The Times-Picayune that these scenes were beautiful and heartbreaking, and Nicholas Barber of The Independent described them as "elegant and dignified".; . James Adams of The Globe and Mail wrote that they were a "dignified ritual of calming, hypnotic grace, with sleights of hand bordering on the magicianly".
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In his work on parapsychology, Marks adopts a sceptical analysis of paranormal claims. He published evidence in Nature that the original claims of remote viewing experiments were based on flawed experimental procedures. Marks also published evidence in The Psychology of the Psychic (1980, 2nd edn. 2000; co-authored with the late Richard Kammann; forewords to both editions by Martin Gardner) that Uri Geller was able to hoodwink scientists, journalists and the many members of the public with a series of simple but audacious sleights of hand.
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Sri Sathya Sai Baba (born Sathyanarayana Raju; 23 November 192624 April 2011) was an Indian guru and philanthropist. At the age of fourteen he claimed that he was the reincarnation of Shirdi Sai Baba, and left his home in order to serve the society and be an example to his followers. Sri Sathya Sai Baba's materialisations of vibhuti (holy ash) and other small objects such as rings, necklaces, and watches were a source of controversy for the agnostics and non believers. Some have analyzed them as being mere sleights of hand, while his followers have considered them as signs of his divinity.
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Riken also ; however, it gave them a brutal drubbing for not properly checking her work. Riken also ‘promptly set about overhauling the CDB from top to bottom, stripping away half of its 500-odd staff, renaming it and installing a new management team.’ In a February 2015 article, The Guardian stated that she was guilty of ‘unbelievable carelessness,’ having ‘manipulated images and plagiarised text’ in a highly inept fashion. The Guardian also described her as exhibiting hubris: ‘If Obokata hadn’t tried to be a world-beater, chances are her sleights of hand would have gone unnoticed and she would still be looking forward to a long and happy career in science.
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TV Guide. Retrieved 12 November > 2014. Bob Mielke, Ph.D, Professor of English at Truman State University, wrote positively of the film in 2014 in an online analytical essay, calling it "a subgenre of the German Kammerspiel or 'chamber-drama' film," saying: > And one of the most powerful visual sleights of hand in Closet Land itself > is when, to torturer Alan Rickman's voice-over, we see shots of "innocent" > children reconfigured with the uncropped image to show a child greeting > Hitler, one at a Ku Klux Klan rally and a young gun-toting terrorist. By > sheer serendipity, my initial encounter with Bharadwaj's work illustrates > one of her major thematic interests: things aren't always what they seem to > be.
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The book exposes the corporate duplicity, subcontracting and immigration fraud, and moral sleights of hand that allow forced labor to continue in the United States. The book begins in the fields of Immokalee, Florida where underpaid or unpaid undocumented workers pick the produce that feeds the supply chains of companies such as Pepsi Company and Tropicana. Secondly, Bowe travels to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the John Pickle Company exploited temporary workers imported from India to boost profits while making pressure tanks used by oil refineries and power plants. Lastly, in Saipan, a U.S. commonwealth, Bowe documents an economy built upon guest workers, where 90 percent of the female population work sixty-hour weeks for $3.05 an hour and spend weekends trying to trade sex for green cards.
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In June 2014, he said that "climate change is the most important environmental challenge of our time". In October 2017, Wyden was one of nineteen senators to sign a letter to Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt questioning Pruitt's decision to repeal the Clean Power Plan, asserting that the repeal's proposal used "mathematical sleights of hand to over-state the costs of industry compliance with the 2015 Rule and understate the benefits that will be lost if the 2017 repeal is finalized" and science denying and math fabricating would fail to "satisfy the requirements of the law, nor will it slow the increase in frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, the inexorable rise in sea levels, or the other dire effects of global warming that our planet is already experiencing." In November 2018, Wyden was one of twenty-five Democratic senators to cosponsor a resolution specifying key findings of the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change report and National Climate Assessment. The resolution affirmed the senators' acceptance of the findings and their support for bold action toward addressing climate change.
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