Word: trick
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...look at what doing your job entailed. Obviously you put a lot of time into the Northern Irish peace process. The trick was to be sympathetic to all the arguments and to work at understanding their arguments. Then they open up to you. Will they compromise? What is it that they really need? You'd know Gerry Adams needed four or five things but he'd come in and give you 45. If you knew where their pressures were, who was undermining them, then you were in a position to get the other side to say, 'What about...
...effect of bogus treatments is real has long been known, but the mechanism behind them is still largely a scientific mystery. The standard explanation is that we are just fooling ourselves. In Latin, placebo means "I shall please," which suggests that the placebo effect is just a fleeting mind trick - that the mere suggestion of pharmacologically induced pain relief humors the body into temporary recovery. In trials, every drug response is in fact assumed to be at least partially due to the placebo effect. But the confounding thing about the benefits of the placebo is that the effect is often...
Harvard came out aggressively in the second half, and Voith scored early to tie the match at 7-7. The co-captain went on to complete a hat trick, but the Gaels took advantage of fast-break opportunities to go on a 4-0 run despite a refocused Crimson defense...
...They have a lot of trick plays, and they like to throw the football,” Murphy said...
...part a figure for the existential terror of life anywhere. It is a world of secrecy and universal suspicion. Everyone suspects everyone of betrayal, both political and sexual - the line between the two is never clear. No one is incorruptible. As the narrator of The Appointment puts it: "The trick...