Feints

Many beginning authors think that they can create a brilliant plot by adding layers of deception, betrayal, double-agents and triple-agents, lies wrapped within feints, etc. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Simpler Skills: Moves such as feints, drag backs and upper body feints can be applied more naturally when taking on or trying to beat an opponent. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Silberstein yells out his window at their opponent, and Embry feints a charge. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

He feints one way, Alves slips, then goes the other to hit his cross that is blocked for a corner. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Practitioners such as Jon Jones and Dominick Cruz use techniques from kickboxing, wrestling, jiu-jitsu and judo to create a subtle dance of feints, leverage and counters. ❋ Tim Marchman (2011)

After days of firefights, feints and an ambush on unarmed local sheiks, the regime forces surrendered their hold on the vital local airport Tuesday morning—placing nearly all of eastern Libya outside Col. ❋ Charles Levinson (2011)

I start the grind, the slow build up to tasteful finale of crotch feints and double bicep isolations. ❋ Drew Jackson (2011)

So the plot begins to spool out enjoyably: Marianne and Willoughby, Elinor and Edward, Lucy Steele's secret, dramatic falls, deadly chills, ballroom feints and cancelled picnics. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But that his self-serving feints at the truth can still earn him a place of high regard in the world of journalism is a sad commentary on the profession that has rewarded him so lucratively. ❋ Robert Scheer (2011)

It will all be light taps and feints, decorous and dignified, but if ever two candidates saw each other as Exactly the Kind of Guy I Don't Like, it would be Messrs. ❋ Peggy Noonan (2011)

Rife with feints and obfuscation, claims and counterclaims, the 1960s quest for the heavens had been equal parts chess match, spy game, and schoolyard brawl. ❋ Neal Thompson (2011)

Everyone believes firmly in the illusion of the authenticity of their own desires, but a skilled novelist implacably exposes the tricks of desire—a web of lies, dissimulations, feints, and maneuvers of their characters—and seduces readers who then fall into narratives with the external and internal objects of their desire. ❋ Gary Percesepe (2011)

He brilliantly feints to shoot, throwing the Zambian defence off course, but having worked the opening, he drags his left-footed shot agonisingly past the right post.89 min: "Does anyone with knowledge of the stadium location know whether Drogba's penalty would have landed in the Congo or the Gulf of Guinea?" honks Simon Ward in London. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Rand's strokes grew ever more ornate and elaborate, complex combinations of cuts and thrusts and feints, designed to make a foe open himself up for a killing stroke. ❋ Grrm (2010)

David Degner for The Wall Street Journal After days of firefights, feints and an ambush on unarmed local sheiks, the regime forces surrendered their hold on the vital local airport Tuesday morning. ❋ Unknown (2011)

These feints toward conciliation would be more convincing if Harry Reid were willing to bring the repeal bill to the Senate floor. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Eubank is a smooth mover, full of feints and clever little shifts in power, and he throws quite a few more blows per round than did his father, a statuesque boxer in more ways than one. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Flaming Lips emerged into the world of alternative rock from Oklahoma City, of all places, 27 years ago, and while the group has made feints at the mainstream — it's had songs used in ads for a Dell laptop and for Merrill Lynch (that one also now the "official rock song" of the state of Oklahoma) — weirdness is the Lips 'true home. ❋ William Westbrook (2010)