Word: trickyness
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What is powerful in Here Come the Clowns is not its tricky story nor its Sunday-school philosophy but its ominous, troubled atmosphere. The hypnotic "illusionist," with his Mephistophelean sense of evil; the hysterical emotions of the dazed people he operates upon; the submerged, intolerable griefs that he forces them...
We can honestly say that we have never encountered an intentionally tricky or unreasonably difficult examination. Allowances are always made for students who obviously know their work but do not have time to finish all the questions.
Taking the game as a whole, it is really impossible to tell if or how much Harvard improved over the Princeton clash. Chicago brought a scrappy, courageous team which looked very flashy and tricky for a while, but the eleven was in such poor condition that the latter part of...
It is not long before Vag climbs (mentally)into the cockpit of his sailplane--one of those white gull-winged ones that soar so silently over the countryside, miraculously holding itself off from the sordid earth beneath. Vag shoots into the air, makes use of several tricky thermals, then skillfully...
THE CROOKED HINGE - John Dickson Carr - Harper ($2). Extremely neat puzzle involving mixed identity, murder and witchcraft in an English village. Dr. Fell provides a surprising, ultra-tricky solution.