A large part of China's economic miracle was built on ill-considered lending and accounting sleight-of-hand. ❋ Carl E. Walter (2011)
Collier gives away the philosophical sleight-of-hand behind the model: It really is a facet of the democratization of the arts to be able to just send a manuscript out somewhere and know that, okay, you have to pay a fee, but you know it's going to be read, it's going to be considered. ❋ Anis Shivani (2011)
L'Amour de Loin (2000), Adriana Mater (2006), Emilie (2010)• Judith Weir (born UK, 1954)There's remarkable theatrical sleight-of-hand in all Weir's operas, matched to music whose delicate economy conceals a remarkable dramatic power, so that music and narrative combine in teasingly unexpected ways. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The experience of these two years shows that a large part of the Chinese economic miracle has been built on a foundation of ill-considered lending and accounting sleight-of-hand. ❋ Carl E. Walter (2011)
When they emerged from the oven in one of those TV cooking show sleight-of-hand moves, we used cakes that he'd made earlier in the day and had time to cool, Mr. Bonnet showed me how to punch two holes through the top of each P'tit Coeur and inject them with the ganache using a pastry tip. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)
I wondered if it was magic, some clever sleight-of-hand trick that rendered it weightless at such times. ❋ Jack Canfield (2011)
Nonetheless, Kant goes on to assert that aesthetic judgements can, in fact, be universally valid, basically by engaging in a little rhetorical second-dealing and hoping his sleight-of-hand is good enough that you don't really notice. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)
To get a clear picture of the * scope* of the accounting sleight-of-hand that the CBPP engaged in (as explained by our host) to make most of the cost of Medicare "go away" and let Krugman reach his "startling" conclusion, let's compare GAO's deficit projections to CBPP's and Krugman's: ❋ Unknown (2009)
There is no reason the honest efforts of individuals to provide goods and services through the international marketplace should be defeated by sleight-of-hand currency effects. ❋ Judy Shelton (2011)
The exact number of military contractors on the U.S. payroll is hard to pin down, thanks to sleight-of-hand accounting by the Department of Defense and its contractors. ❋ John W. Whitehead (2012)
The near-wordless "Illusionist" tells Tati's melancholic tale of an aging, traveling magician at the dawn of rock and roll -- and of the girl who fairly believes that his hat-and-rabbit sleight-of-hand means this man is capable of genuine magic. ❋ Michael Cavna (2011)
I think what bothers me the most is that it's supposed to look like fancy sleight-of-hand po-mo storytelling when it only increases my suspicion that they are making it up as they go along, and going back to patch up inconvenient inconsistencies. ❋ Roger Sutton (2009)
Roger Hanna's set for "A Little Journey," for instance, turns Ms. Crothers's sleeper car into a simple but handsome-looking revolving carousel, a sleight-of-hand trick that gives the production a feeling of forward movement unrivaled by infinitely more complicated and expensive Pullman-car sets. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)
Once again, the noxious sleight-of-hand of conflating Social Security together with Medicare, and using the (undeniable) problems of the latter as cover to steal from the (completely solvent) former. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In 1959, at age 14, he ran away from home to study with the great 20th-century sleight-of-hand master Dai Vernon—a man who once fooled Harry Houdini with a card trick. ❋ Alex Stone (2011)
