Magician in a sentence as a noun

He was not a magician, though, because there's no such thing.

" Not "What are 10 things an aspiring magician should do?

I'm addicted to these blog posts, the guy is like some sort of magician.

"> "What are 10 things an aspiring magician should do?

Think about how a street magician works a group: "Would you like to see a magic trick?

In the first Myth Adventure book, Skeeve is taught the concept of the "magician's choice".

I was like a magician, I wasn't using the system, it was an extension of my being.

In the courtroom, once I thought for a second about what she was doing, I felt as if I were watching a magician at work.

So don't vote it up!I find it funny to read this comment while the number 1 post on HN is about a magician and his tricks...hehe.

"I know one magician who sets the frame of mind of his audience by doing something so ludicrous it attracts a crowd.

Gordon Brown looked like a magician until the financial crisis hit, and had probably come to believe he was.

He was brimming with enthusiasm for it: he was an absolute magician who spoke the secret language of Paper.

A good magician doing closeup magic can follow your gaze and know what you're looking at in order to adjust his strategy in real time.

In science, as well as in other fields of human endeavor, there are two kinds of geniuses: the ordinary and the magicians.

It's like he flings a bunch of factual snippets at the reader and then quickly segues into his conclusion like a magician performing sleight of hand.

Is anyone else as impressed as I am that Teller remembered the name of an up-and-coming magician they met after a show more than a year earlier?

The difference is that software can be patched but the evolved behaviors that are the root of the exploits used by magicians are very hard to "patch".

For example, if I say the word "ball", if you have understood this word then you have no choice but to have a certain mental state that is predictable to a magician.

You may have selected initially your card, but everything after that is controlled, down to how the magician makes you hold your card when it's handed back to you.

So, to prove to some important individual that he's a mighty magician, he brings his horse and his horse-that-is-secretly-a-lizard.

Moreover, a good magician will prevent you from stopping to think about what he is doing by merely talking and distracting/leading your attention to the next ruse he wishes to perpetrate.

All magic requires misdirection, sure, but the audience is usually in a frame of mind that's willing to suspend disbelief for a moment long enough for the magician to exploit it.

Since that was the only thing he could do, the "magician's choice" consisted of asking his dupe to choose an animal, so that they felt in control, but without specifying any consequences of the choice.

I think it's enough to have just seen some episodes of Fool Us to see that they can have huge amounts of respect for magicians who copy their tricks, so long as those magicians add something unique to it.

They seldom, if ever, have students because they cannot be emulated and it must be terribly frustrating for a brilliant young mind to cope with the mysterious ways in which the magicians mind works.

If you could interpret all those instructions 100 times faster than any other person in this café, you would appear to be a magician: You could run over and grab a milk shake and bring it back and set it on the table and snap your fingers, and I’d think you made the milk shake appear, because it was so fast relative to my perception.

Magician definitions

noun

someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience

See also: prestidigitator conjurer conjuror illusionist

noun

one who practices magic or sorcery

See also: sorcerer wizard necromancer thaumaturge thaumaturgist