parlor

It works, but so does a parlor trick works when your audience does not pay full attention.

It's nothing more than a distraction for researchers and a silly parlor trick for everyone else.

While they were permitted to have male visitors in the sorority house, the men could only visit them in the parlor.

The look from the street was like a massage parlor or strip club.

There are people that spend their days & nights writing products, only for hacks like you to undermine their work with cheap parlor tricks.

Seriously, a couple of parlor tricks are not gonna leave anybody behind.

To me it makes it all feel like a parlor trick.

Here in old-timey Europe I know only one shop that has an open sign like that, and it's a massage parlor.

Please, step into my parlor of unsolicited advice for a moment...

This is not about parlor tricks, but about creative thinking.

I wonder if the Jeopardy appearances helped Watson (by getting the name out) or hindered it (by making people think it's just a parlor trick).

They are some kind of parlor-trick brain-test.

I guess my argument is that we already know how to build "parlor trick" machines.

In English, I say "go to school", there will be some oversight that end up the kid stray to a game parlor.

On first read of the Go feature set it's really easy to blip over the "implicit satisfaction of interfaces" and think it's an irrelevant parlor trick, but in practice it's really very useful in surprising and profound ways.