trickiness


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Synonyms for trickiness

the quality of being a slippery rascal

the quality of requiring skill or caution

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Rich Gagnon downplays the trickiness of transplanting 100 media planners and 11 accounts that he oversaw at Draftfcb (as chief media officer) into fellow Interpublic Group shop Initiative (where he's now an evp).
There are two dimensions Coetzee intends to bring forth, the first being the trickiness of confession, and the second the disciplinary function of confessing.
There were even a few unscrupulous thinkers who took advantage of this trickiness and used it as a justification for moral relativism.
This book, which is an updated version of a text first published in 1985, is an eloquent attempt to rescue the filmmaker from charges of superficial trickiness and to show that he is a neglected modern master.
Despite Broadwater's thoroughness and attention to detail, Madison's personality remains elusive, but this isn't so much a fault of the writer as a testament to the trickiness of his subject.
THE trickiness of the River Mersey ensures that Liverpool Cruise Terminal staff never become complacent about docking the biggest liners in the world.
Secondly the inherent trickiness of historical biography in Africa will continue to produce two-dimensional subjects until more scholars seek to emulate the diligence of Professor Iliffe.
My associates' ideas gave me some new ones too: pop-up comments from the commiserating or felicitating prof, materializing from his wizardly screen to shake hands only after a passage of special trickiness or beauty had been negotiated; an option to indicate rhyme scheme; a toggle switch, available once the whole poem was successfully scanned, that would highlight in pure gold those places where rhythm departs from meter in ways that might enrich next week's essay in poetic interpretation.
The vacunao becomes a sign of competition and seduction, trickiness, and playfulness.
"The reason, I suspect, that basketball appeals to the Hebrew with his Oriental background, is that the game places a premium on an alert, scheming mind, flashy trickiness, artful dodging and general smart aleckness," wrote Paul Gallico, one of the premier sportswriters of the 1930s.
"I think there has been a push for them to do that, to get [conservative FBOS] away on principle from the trickiness of prevention, i.e.
Adding to the trickiness, markets have segmented into microcosms--some successful and others, for no particular reason, not.
The linguistic mapping of Halley's growth to maturity is as over-determined as the rest of the narrative mapping, beginning when Halley as a young child first learns from her mother about the trickiness of language, which on occasion becomes "a delicious, shared joke" (9) between them.
Another reason, doubtless, has to do with the doctrinal trickiness of the subject: mortalism presents itself in distinguishable strands, but it is often a fine scantling that separates one strand from another, and there may be difficulties in determining whether a given mortalist voice utters on behalf of the soul's "sleep" or the soul's "death." Bryan Ball's book is the first dedicated study of early-modern English mortalism since Norman T.
Grammatical subordination makes the relation between multiple causes a tricky one, and that trickiness is often expressed on the page in terms of grammatical slippage and registered as a problem of tense or of parallelism.