legerdemain in a sentence
pronunciation: [ [ ˌledʒədə'mein ] ]
Examples
- Mostly he waits for some stroke of luck, some act of legerdemain, to turn his world around.
- Hiroshi Sugimoto practices a photographic legerdemain so sly he appears to be another oh-so-ironic postmodernist.
- Enough so that I'm willing to forgive the film's bad case of unconvincing last-reel legerdemain.
- Of course, Republicans hardly expect Democrats to drop their tax-cut attack because of this piece of parliamentary legerdemain.
- These accusations cover only a fraction of the financial legerdemain that Suharto is accused of during his 32 years in power.
- The Bruins aren't going to be a razzle-dazzle team full of legerdemain and sleight-of-hand.
- Dan Rostenkowski, one of the most influential lawmakers of his generation, the legendary king of legislative legerdemain, is back.
- To some who spent last Sunday in Central Park, however, the numerical data seem like a lot of statistical legerdemain.
- Was it a brilliant bit of risk-taking and some routine corporate legerdemain, or the biggest fraud in California history?
- But a good thriller will disarm your skepticism, through either cinematic legerdemain or psychological insight or some combination of the two.