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Example sentences for: legerdemain

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Its legerdemain can come close to infiltrating sexual intercourse as well, you might say, as in the following tricky, sneaky example:
Readers can judge for themselves the validity of this numerical legerdemain.
In Fowler's Modern English Usage one of the more intriguing entries is Legerdemain in Two Senses . Under that heading he points out the sneaky way in which one word is often two-faced in the sense that its first meaning gets switched when it is used the second time in a sentence.
In front of a cozy fire on a winter's night in the library of one of John Cheever's country houses, on the beach at Waikiki, even on a New York or London commuter train, finding Legerdemain in Two Senses and False Scents can be fun and games for all, and all you need is (usually) some printed matter or even just an inventive mind.
In other words, what happens is something like the legerdemain of a magician's now-you-see-it-now-you-don't.