legerdemain
Example Sentences
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And he never knew that, unlike the verdict of an early viewer who dismissed his paintings as “mere legerdemain,” today they are seen as magical in a positive sense.
The Geffen helped to write the book on interactive streaming theater, beginning with its hit magic show “The Present,” which featured master of legerdemain Helder Guimarães.
From Los Angeles Times
Under the direction of Allie Winton Butler, the production welcomes in the uncanny through a combination of innovative legerdemain and old-fashioned storytelling.
From Los Angeles Times
Understanding my choices, or my fictional alter ego’s, would require a clarifying self-awareness and a literary legerdemain that were beyond me at the time.
From Washington Post
And so a bit of lyrical legerdemain was called for.
From New York Times
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