| 单词 | prestidigitator |
| 例句 | At each performance, as patrons sip expensive cocktails, many of them purple, prestidigitators rove from table to table, performing close-up routines. Holiday Magic: Fooled and Fooled and Fooled Again 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Annually, a group of prestidigitators tries to change that. 9 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z Best David Copperfield impression: David Arquette and partner Kym Johnson have had a hard time making magic on the dance floor, so they brought in a professional prestidigitator to teach them a few tricks. ?Dancing with the Stars? Week 7: The Monster Mash 2011-11-01T13:00:39Z A magician never reveals his secrets, and like the best prestidigitators, Margolin manipulates readers into believing one thing, then reveals the surprising truth. Book Review: `Sleight of Hand' will shock, mislead 2013-04-09T14:32:09Z Italo Calvino: I’d need a master metaphysician, storyteller and prestidigitator to make something glittering out of my mostly repetitive and rather beige existence. The Classic Novel That Robert Macfarlane Just Couldn’t Finish 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z This hefty essay collection showcases Cohen’s skill as a verbal prestidigitator on subjects ranging from Barnum and Trump to the Holocaust writer A. G. Adler. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z These glitzy prestidigitators — not to be confused with the “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” crowd — have returned to Broadway with more patter, more magic, more questionable outfits. 8 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z As a showman, Mr. Brown has none of the smarminess of Las Vegas prestidigitators or carnival hucksters. Review: Being Brainwashed Into Joy in Derren Brown’s ‘Secret’ 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z His new book, "How Magicians Think: Misdirection, Deception, and Why Magic Matters," isn't a how-to for aspiring prestidigitators. Joshua Jay explain how magicians think — without ruining the magic 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Hnath has a prestidigitator’s hands, with pronounced knuckles and long, tapering fingers. Lucas Hnath Lets Actors Fight It Out Onstage 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Each is filled with actor and crew interviews including words from consultants such as legendary prestidigitator David Copperfield. Blu-ray reviews: ‘Money Monster,’ ‘All the Way’ and ‘Now You See Me 2’ 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Neither got much press until they were well established, and neither was anticipated by the many pundits, prognosticators and prestidigitators infesting the media. Warning Signs For Energy Technology Investors 2: Viva La Revolucion 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z But I said to myself, "We were present at the skilful performances of a woman prestidigitator; we witnessed only theatrical tricks." Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z After assuring himself that the coast was clear Sube drew back his sleeves in imitation of a prestidigitator. Sube Cane With his dexterous, invisible help Mystiffio performed like the paragon of all prestidigitators. The Chameleon Man One is forced to admit that they are very clever, these Indian prestidigitators, excelling in all forms of sleight-of-hand. The Pearl of India His rapidity and sureness of manipulation were nearly that of the prestidigitator, and were the boast and admiration of his pupils. The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University Her experiments are not planned, and, contrary to the habit of prestidigitators, she does not carry any apparatus upon her person. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Frank Wedekind is less of the stage prestidigitator and more sincere. Ivory Apes and Peacocks As quickly as the hand of a prestidigitator flashes, Mackenzie swept the one that held the tobacco, dashing the powdered mixture into Reid’s eyes. The Flockmaster of Poison Creek He pointed to a small machine upon a stand, which was slowly unfurling from its mouth a long strip of paper such as prestidigitators produce from silk hats. The Wall Street Girl Twice when it was necessary to change trains he made the transfer with a lightning precision that would have done honor to any prestidigitator. Once to Every Man And she, watching him with face alight, applauded vigorously and with more genuine emotion than usually greets the acts of a prestidigitator. The Web of the Golden Spider His hand reached down—only to feel—but not so quickly as the white hand, which scooped up the coin trickily, with the skill of a prestidigitator. The Pagan Madonna They raked losing bets and paid winners with the speed of prestidigitators. Vigorish Gradually a part of his old-time business shrewdness came to his aid in these intangible matters, and he began to distinguish and to cast out the base and parasitic prestidigitators who infested his house. The Tyranny of the Dark It is a wonderful bit of psychology—this giving with an obligation—and Andrew Carnegie is not only the Prince of Ironmasters, but he is a pedagogic prestidigitator, and an artistic financial hypnotist. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen The prestidigitator does his tricks in order to sidetrack our attention, but he succeeds in making us believe that we see or do not see whatever he wishes. Psychotherapy There appears to be no affinity between the prestidigitator and the theatrical manager, yet they both make passes. The New Pun Book It passed before Flora's eyes like a prestidigitator's trick, so rapid as to seem unreal, and left her staring. The Coast of Chance They don't care a fig about poor Olive's ideas; it's only because Verena has strange hair, and shiny eyes, and gets herself up like a prestidigitator's assistant. The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) "Perhaps I am a prestidigitator in a popular dime-museum," I suggested, willing to help her out, "and am doing a little advertising." Hearts and Masks The same audience would applaud Paderewski or a great prestidigitator. The Young Man and the World The prestidigitator, a nervous, restive Frenchman with an astonishing rapidity of tongue, stands near the centre of the room and juggles and struggles with hats and rings and eggs and his own overmastering fluency. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees This process is well known to prestidigitators, but it might be executed in a genuine manner. Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 Her sister-in-law, enveloped in a large blue apron, by no means fresh, sat beside a roughly built table, peeling tomatoes, her brown stained fingers moving with the rapidity of a prestidigitator's. The Bent Twig A prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket. The Devil's Dictionary At all these performances there are always amongst the spectators persons in league with the prestidigitator. The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) Though teaching the people that all these fables are facts, still the Church condemns prestidigitators, soothsayers, fortune tellers, Spiritualists, witches, and the assumptions of Christian Scientists. The Woman's Bible These prestidigitators even obtained at times such celebrity that history has preserved their names for us—at least of two of them, Euclides and Theodosius, to whom statues were erected by their contemporaries. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Edmund, with the skill of a prestidigitator, got out another match, and pushed it into my fingers. A Columbus of Space It may indeed be highly finished, the more highly in proportion to its brevity, but the clever word-juggling of such prestidigitators as Poe and Verlaine is perilous. A Study of Poetry That God is a juggler—he is the infinite prestidigitator. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. It was very easy for these accomplished prestidigitators to substitute the offal for sacrifices on their altars, and keep the dainty fruits and meats for themselves, luxuries for their own tables. The Woman's Bible But when we turn away from these prestidigitators of rhymes and rhythms, we find that no view of poetry is less acceptable than this one to poets in general. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years It was for all the world like the performance of a prestidigitator. King Coal : a Novel That Poe was a prestidigitator with verse, and may be regarded solely with a view to his professional expertness, is surely no ground for disparaging him as a poet. A Study of Poetry Here the prestidigitator uttered a soft cry, first mournful, then lively, a medley of sharp sounds like imprecations and hoarse notes like threats, which made Ben-Zayb’s hair stand on end. The Reign of Greed But it is best for a boy unpracticed and without the dexterity of a professional prestidigitator not to undertake to play with fire. Joe Strong the Boy Fire-Eater The Most Dangerous Performance on Record "You'll have to find something for me—" Her smooth hand stretched toward him as quickly as a prestidigitator's, with the glass of orange juice. Little Miss By-The-Day A simple twist of the wrist, as the prestidigitators say. The Day of the Dog Strike out the element of time and we see evolution as the great prestidigitator of the biologic ages. Time and Change The exhibition ended, the prestidigitator again covers the table, presses another spring, and the mirrors descend.—Author’s note. The Reign of Greed Many of the conjurer's tricks are quite creditable performances; but the pasha occasionally interferes in the proceedings just in the nick of time to prevent the prestidigitator finishing his manipulations, much to the pasha's delight. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran Had Pierre been a prestidigitator and had he merely said presto! when our backs were turned and whisked the goods invisibly into the country? The Poisoned Pen For what were these ancient manipulators of ideas, prestidigitators of a vanished world of thought, but the forbears of the long line of theorists of whom Fulvia was the last inconscient mouthpiece? The Valley of Decision In "The Bells" and "The Raven" we detect the prestidigitator. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters But your boss comes in every day as perky and set up as an amateur prestidigitator doing the egg trick. The Four Million Boxers, fencers, players at the Italian game of morn, "prestidigitators," and all who depend for their success on rapidity of motion, know what differences there are in the personal equation of movement. Medical Essays, 1842-1882 You call me a prestidigitator, a fraud—you shall suffer for that! The Silent Bullet Had Pierre been a prestidigitator and had he merely said presto when our backs were turned and whisked the goods invisibly into the country? The Poisoned Pen These were Prior, the prosperous City coffee importer, and Lang, the stockjobber, well known in his own circle as an amateur prestidigitator. A Voyage to Arcturus Sam shouted, turning furiously; but the small prestidigitator was gone. Penrod and Sam "I merely wish to convince you, 'Mr. Spencer,'" said Kennedy to me, "that it is no sleight-of-hand trick and that the professor has not several uncut stones palmed in his hand like a prestidigitator." The Silent Bullet |
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