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sleight of hand N no pl

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Showing the animal's reaction to a simple sleight-of-hand conjuring trick, the images took the animal from puzzlement through understanding to what seemed a glorious fit of joyous laughter.
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A well-performed sleight looks like an ordinary, natural and completely innocent gesture, change in hand-position or body posture.
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He spent most of his youth studying sleight of hand magic, practicing for eight hours a day.
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The sleight of hand is assuming that we know this mapping.
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Misdirection is perhaps the most important component of the art of sleight of hand.
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With the produced cards, he would go into a series of sleight of hand tricks.
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It's a reminder that celebrities and the tabloid press are in collusion, together performing a complex sleight of hand, as delicate as keyhole surgery.
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Not only was the conversation perfectly coordinated, he also used sleight-of-hand to appear to pass objects back and forth to himself.
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Like the basic move, this is standard sleight-of-hand which, when done properly, can not be detected.
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But by no sleight of hand could the convention have been swung around to either contestant.
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