prestidigitation

This word makes clear that we are talking about murder, not prestidigitation.

It was more an act of prestidigitation than discovery, however.

The last is conceivable for those who have followed the prestidigitation of Johnson.

Soon he was performing his prestidigitation on local television.

"It is very simple, like all that is done in the matter of prestidigitation.

But that is just the sort of bind that calls for the Kissinger prestidigitation.

His hands finished up their prestidigitation and then slapped down the final commands in a ragged tattoo.

This kind of prestidigitation is beyond me.

Kathleen asked, more interested in Vanadium's words than in his prestidigitation.

This bit of diplomatic prestidigitation would be accomplished by saying the Chinese Government did not know about the sale.

Her father was whispering to her, entertaining her with prestidigitation.

All his energies immediately went to mastering card tricks and other feats of prestidigitation.

Legerdemain, sleight of hand, prestidigitation, became the dominant interest of my life.

Bold championship indeed, surely irrefutable on grounds of prestidigitation.

This act of prestidigitation amused and relaxed him and he often did it when he was thinking.

"We'll give this beast one more prestidigitation.

I will shock and amaze you with my powers of prestidigitation and psychic abilities!

He created his most popular prestidigitation, the "wonderful bullet-catching feat," in his hometown.

I watched the cook, a marvel of prestidigitation, the dancing Shiva of the short stack.

You 'wasted' the opportunity to frighten this poor woman or drive that man to madness, which only a little prestidigitation Would have accomplished.

Davis worked with mood and sound, and he valued drama - the perfect heartbreaking note - over prestidigitation.

I can baffle yer eyes with me unearthly skill at prestidigitation, don't y' know.

"I have a rare show of antics and prestidigitation," Stile said, making his voice comical too. "

Gnomes can perform the spell-like abilities of dancing lights, ghost sound and prestidigitation.

When he died in 1992, his ashes were installed in a small wooden box outside the Parlor of Prestidigitation.