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Michiko Kakutani seems downright irritated: "The volume is basically a case of a skilled writer lazily using his sleight of hand to toss off what (with two or three exceptions) are pure exercises in craft" (the New York Times ). (Find out more about author Amis on the New York Times ' "Featured Author" page.)
Note the rhetorical sleight of hand.
As with most magic tricks, the sleight of hand occurs at the outset, when Bush says his philosophy "has been criticized."
Consequently, there's much improvisation and sleight of hand involved when anyone throws around numbers.
Somewhere in the middle comes my ideal black comedy, in which humans are base but their emotions have weight, and the human condition, while irremediable, is leavened by the artist's cheery sleight of hand.