prestidigitation

1 Some former Lucent employees, however, say it is unfair to blame Mrs. Fiorina for Ms. Aversano’s actions or for the financial prestidigitation, which were authorized by Lucent’s chief executive, not by Mrs. Fiorina.

2 If later on his thought was travestied, the guilty ones—the popes and most of the ministers-general—were obliged to resort to feats of prestidigitation that are not to their credit.

3 “Now You See Me” is a so-what movie on a grand scale that tries to transcend this unbreachable barrier through the sheer size and the audacity of its prestidigitation.

4 I.B.M. scientists have received Nobel Prizes, performed molecular prestidigitation and won chess and “Jeopardy!” games with pioneering examples of artificial intelligence.

5 Associated word: chevron. sleigh, n. cutter, sled, sledge, bobsled, toboggan, jumper, pung. sleight of hand. prestidigitation, jugglery, legerdemain, magic, conjury.

6 In this era of the prestidigitation that is digitation, the sheer, laundry-bag bulk of the contents of these archives is stunning.

7 The action moved away from him, but the Notre Dame linebacker's job against Navy's option prestidigitation was to go nowhere in case it came back.

8 Later, in an act of popcorn-movie prestidigitation, all memory of yet another character is erased.

9 Houdini's powers of prestidigitation remain legendary to this very day.

10 One cannot affect surprise if the distinction between this amazing exploit of diplomatico-military prestidigitation and intermeddling in the internal affairs of another nation prove too subtle for the mental grasp of the average unpolitical individual.

11 You see, mademoiselle," he laughingly said, "prestidigitation is sometimes of use.

12 And it insists that corporations like Amazon have unlocked magical technology secrets that allow them to bring the wonders of the world to our doorstep through something like prestidigitation.

13 Still, the biggest act of prestidigitation is yet to come, and actually occurs after Pence provides his proof texts.

14 It is very simple, like all that is done in the matter of prestidigitation.

15 "An he's more light-fingered than his predecessor, he's a master of prestidigitation!"

16 Digital prestidigitation paints X-ray energy as a hot blue, so we can see it; infrared light is colored orange; visible light, the stuff we can see, is white and brown.

17 And in a stunning feat of prestidigitation, in the final act the cast switches seamlessly between the roles of the amateur actors and the mocking royal audience for which they are performing.

18 This is to AI as prestidigitation is to real magic.

19 Nobody really knows if Valeant is doing anything that makes money, or is just engaged in prestidigitation that never gets anywhere.

20 Perhaps the greatest feat of prestidigitation performed by Mr. Posner and Teller is the deft manner in which they manage to divert attention from the production’s deficiencies in the acting department.

1 手法

pass legerdemain

2 魔术

magic necromancy conjuration sortilege black art prestigious gramary medicine glamour glamor juggle jugglery thaumaturgy diabolism gramarye conjury magical trick sorcery wizardry incantation Magian diablerie

3 变戏法

trick conjuring pass magic juggle thimblerig conjure

4 把戏

magic trick juggle

5 戏法

magic trick legerdemain juggle hocus-pocus

6 幻术

trick gramarye