0 speed and skill of the hand when performing tricks:
By some statistical sleight of hand the government has produced figures showing that unemployment has recently fallen.
1 speed and skill with the hands when performing tricks that seem to be magic
The methodological sleight of hand on which the generative enterprise rests is the omission of meaning and meaning-based analyses.
By a neat sleight of hand, many doctors defined ' shellshock ' as physical shell concussion, and excluded it from this category.
The argument seems plausible only through a sleight of hand.
In that way, the postulation of a phonemic decision level and claims to have eliminated lexical feedback may be a theoretical sleight of hand.
With an elegant sleight of hand, he draws out the missing element in the accounts he discusses, acknowledging their usefulness while restoring what they exclude.
We are once again back at the very dawn of film and the mechanisms of illusion and disavowal which define it : film as magic, spectacle, sleight of hand.
A third hand to the descriptive 'purpose' (does this constitute sleight of hand?) is concerned with the morphophonology of the verb forms, the system of expression.
Isn't this just mathematical sleight of hand?
