But despite the widespread misconception — or is it misdirection?
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It has responded with lashings of obfuscation, misdirection and worse.
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But mobility and misdirection are your most powerful tools here.
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" "The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.
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But even among his fellow developers, Trump excelled at misdirection.
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That now appears to be an elaborate attempt at misdirection.
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Is this major misdirection or might Swift briefly pop up?
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But the president's misdirection was deliberate — and, analysts said, effective.
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There was some great cryptic misdirection in some hard clues.
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Nice misdirection made harder by the omission of the "?" signal.
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That's called misdirection and it starts in earnest on Wednesday.
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On Wednesday, Trump's defenders continued an incoherent campaign of misdirection.
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But there might be some slight misdirection at play here. Enjoy!
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Wright's done classic misdirection by generating different scams for different audiences.
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This is a pretty common crossword misdirection and is worth remembering.
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Of course, this is part of his verbal and visual misdirection.
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I had a hunch, but several theme entries were misdirection incarnate.
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That's either some expert misdirection or something to be worried about.
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For all of Miller's misdirection -- "salacious" -- those are the facts. 8.
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Misdirection plays helped rookie quarterback Jacoby Brissett play a passable game.
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The press then fails painfully when it comes to debunking industry misdirection.
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Courage wasted by misdirection is the most heart-breaking of all tragedies.
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I think it&aposs misdirection and the misuse of freedom of speech.
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Now waiting for Twitter to act on the misdirection bug this uncovered.
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"That misidentified cell line led investigators to pursue a misdirection," Bradford said.
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At no point does it seem to be used as misdirection, either.
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Of course any of these biographical details could also be intentional misdirection.
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But today they're mere bywords for cynical commercialism and deliberate consumer misdirection.
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Her misdirection let her insert in me a code error in me.
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Simple question and answer pairings, misdirection to land a few good points.
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This is not a time for partisan misdirection dressed up as legalese.
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Maybe there's internal polling, or maybe it's purposeful misdirection on Plouffe's part?
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The solution, some researchers said, was to employ a bit of misdirection.
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It could be misdirection, or it could just be truly that messy.
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It was classic Trumpian bluster, with giant dollops of misinformation and misdirection.
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She has lived with her father's propensity for misdirection all her life.
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We won't be fooled by Google's blatant misdirection, which is... Just kidding.
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To make matters worse, it formalizes more government misdirection, dishonesty, and theft.
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Jacqueline Novak's "Get on Your Knees" practices a racier kind of misdirection.
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But it's not a mis-misdirection psych today, it's PUGET sound again.
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But they almost serve as misdirection away from a larger, more central thread.
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The main action went right, including guard Andrew Norwell pulling right as misdirection.
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So we're up against a wily foe—a master at deception and misdirection.
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What Giuliani said upended months of White House misdirection on the Daniels subject.
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Former EPA employees and environmentalists called the speech a clear case of misdirection.
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Part of what you're talking about here is the misdirection, the romance. Right.
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They are short term, and they are not an overreaction or a misdirection.
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But "The Alienist" is counting on your memories to help with its misdirection.
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Daggar-Nickson pieces together the puzzle of Sadie's life with some sly misdirection.
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Instead, they forgo clunky setup, misdirection, and simply cue up the story immediately.
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Ever the entertainer, he knows the power of teases, of misdirection, of suspense.
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But the casual misdirection is setting the viewer up for an emotional kill.
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Misdirection and offering opinion as fact do not move us in that direction.
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Mostly, though, you can consider this just another page from Putin's playbook of misdirection.
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The greatest danger in the open water is not misdirection, or exhaustion, but panic.
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But the common problem is a combination of both weakness and misdirection in Washington.
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So to say, "Oh, I didn't know about any of that," is clearly misdirection.
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But denying the existence of a bill altogether is misdirection of a different kind.
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"Gorey was supremely skilled in the art of evasion and misdirection," Mr. Dery said.
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Suddenly a door slams, and in classic Peele misdirection, a Black student walks in.
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As both a stance and a misdirection, they wore only red, white, and black.
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A lot of what constitutes a whodunit, just like a magic trick, is misdirection.
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But psychological misdirection is subtler and more effective, its effects on behavior more insidious.
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There's some misdirection here — this could have been a baseball player; "Babe" or "Ruth"?
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There's no misdirection and only one player (Harden) moves more than a few steps.
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It's narrower in scope, but its very name signals the kind of misdirection it represents.
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Deception and misdirection is how black people — and I think black women specifically — stay alive.
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Also, Russia or any country interested in misdirection won't do precisely the same thing again.
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It's a nice misdirection from the song itself, which is about a low-commitment relationship.
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Trump's misdirection and distractions Clinton has invested substantial time and energy into health care issues.
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It's something institutions use to justify higher prices, but the argument itself is a misdirection.
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And enough misdirection and wordplay in the clues to keep our weekend puzzle warriors happy.
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Billions The penultimate episode of this season, like Chuck, indulged in temptation, misdirection and obfuscation.
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Temptation, misdirection, obfuscation, conflation-slash-corruption of ideals: All of the above are in play.
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The beautiful thing about Elijah's character is how it worked off Shyamalan's talent for misdirection.
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But Jeter delights in misdirection with the news media, so his true intention is unknown.
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Trump's cry-wolf strategy seems just as likely to be misdirection as Nixon's defense was.
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Other ARENA clues with similarly structured misdirection include: [Queen's venue], [Kiss setting] or [Journey's destination].
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This, too, turns out to be a sly misdirection on the part of the filmmaker.
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But we are not supposed to be thinking of her; that is just clever misdirection.
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There were tons of names today and a little misdirection (ROVE, not "roam," among others).
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But note that Marvel isn't against throwing some misdirection into its trailers to keep fans guessing.
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The trailer includes a lot of misdirection, but confirmed topics of conversation appear to be: 1.
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Some of these are part of the game of misdirection at the heart of the film.
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And for Facebook to try to imply it can is yet more misdirection and blame shifting.
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Even her misdirection when under fire has been tolerated as an acceptable response to ceaseless assaults.
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They are the masters of misdirection, both during the The Bachelor itself and on social media.
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He is the most interesting mystery in a game whose detective-work is almost a misdirection.
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Witt also included another suggestion from Scholl and Firestone into this study: an element of misdirection.
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The problem is this — and indeed much else in the ~5,000-word post — is mostly misdirection.
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You are Agent 47, a top-tier contract killer who specializes in disguise, misdirection, and subterfuge.
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Nor was Mr. Abse especially fastidious in his tactics; he often resorted to ruses and misdirection.
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It had me pondering whether any of the Wiggles might have red hair, a respectable misdirection.
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But since my first puzzle was heavy on misdirection, I tried not to overuse it here.
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Her compositions cram together a lot of ideas about misdirection, balance, blues comfort, melody and memory.
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This was something different from all the other signs of misdirection that researchers had fixated on.
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"The Outsider" is dark — visually, emotionally — but absorbing, patient with both its misery and its misdirection.
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There is a great deal of irony and misdirection in this allegation by the Sanders team.
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There are so many things to be angry about and I think this is just misdirection.
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A sane debate is impossible, however, if the public mind continues to be polluted by nativist misdirection.
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Some have said his tweet wasn't a joke at all, since there is no twist or misdirection.
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There's a great deal of misdirection and lying to keep your identity as a graffiti writer secret.
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Or is this just Gadot engaging in some effective hype-building, with a side of light misdirection?
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Asking such questions is the wrong way to approach this movie, which involves several layers of misdirection.
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Now I learn that the outline I saw was misdirection, nothing but a speck on my vision.
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There is no way these guys didn't intentionally plant some of the misdirection in the grid today.
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McVay's offense, heavy on play-action and screens and condensed alignments for receivers, is built for misdirection.
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If he figured out a way to pull it off, that might be his greatest misdirection ever.
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McManus, a veritable master of misdirection, plots a whodunit so deftly that it transcends the YA label.
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I'm so used to trying to decipher misdirection in clues like this that I sometimes overthink things.
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There is plenty of narrative misdirection, he added, but the red herrings take too long to introduce.
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And with Trump, the line between incompetence and nefariousness, misjudgment and misdirection, is usually a blurry one.
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A misdirection pitch to Gore resulted in an easy 7-yard touchdown for a 20143-3 lead.
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Misdirection These methods steer users toward or away a certain choice with coded language or obstructive visuals.
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As expected from a puzzle by these constructors, this grid was stuffed with subtle misdirection and quips.
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It's an acknowledgment that they both capitalize on misdirection and our love of having our brains twisted.
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The "Still Here" misdirection is what makes Kate's eventual pregnancy reveal feel all the more comforting and monumental.
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But — and this is a big "but" — it's very, very possible that this Luke stuff is clever misdirection.
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It would even be fair to say he creates chaos and misdirection – and then looks for an advantage.
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"I'm tired of the lies and misdirection from Daniel Pantaleo's lawyers," she said in a statement last month.
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Offense: The Niners rely heavily on play-action (34.1% of dropbacks), and Shanahan is a master of misdirection.
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And the maze-scalps — which don't make sense if the maze is for hosts — are a misdirection, too.
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In a novel centred on magic and mystery, Ms Benjamin uses misdirection to frustrate as well as entertain.
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Ingrid is an accidental super-sleuth who uses subtle misdirection and quick thinking to manipulate everyone around her.
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It was an audacious misdirection play, widely rebutted, that still has Washington tied in knots five weeks later.
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I'm half expecting the drama with Peter to be a misdirection—they could be engaged as we speak!
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In many ways, it was the project that established Abrams' notorious big-screen reputation for secrecy and misdirection.
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They use jokes, quotations, emotional outbursts, misdirection, and all manner of verbal dodges to confuse and distract questioners.
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It all started innocently enough on Thursday, the day the show kicked off, with a bit of misdirection.
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Authorities were assessing whether there was a plot and whether the states named were real targets or misdirection.
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" In rebuttal remarks, federal prosecutor Peter Koski told jurors that the defense lawyers' friendship defense was a "misdirection.
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We're all grown now, though, doing the Sunday grid — our well-toned minds can handle some clever misdirection.
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That perfect murders, at least the artful kind we find in books, are all about concealment and misdirection.
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Some of Mr. Goldman's claims may have been narrowly true, but they were a prime example of misdirection.
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Instead of attempting to hide a ship, the goal was to conceal the ship's course through flashy misdirection.
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"You might clean yours up or put one on" is a dandy misdirection for the simple word ACT.
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"Catch cold?" at 16A is a splendid bit of misdirection, and today it does not mean falling ill.
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Every presidential campaign sees its share of spin and misdirection, but this year's contest promises to be different.
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The show has been strongly suggesting sparks between them lately (more on this below), which feels like misdirection.
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And Trump continues to simultaneously use and promote facilities he owns, even sometimes using misdirection to do so.
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A bit of misdirection — someONE would have been much more accurate but also made the answer too easy.
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It may ultimately turn out to be misdirection too; an attempt to deflect blame and divert criticism via solutioneering.
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With a Coke can, Riley crystallizes an image of the superpower of capitalism, which is its deftness with misdirection.
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Today, the integrated spectacle continues to provide abundant commodities while defending itself with the use of misinformation and misdirection.
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" Wu said Trump's strategy in dealing with the fallout from Mueller's investigation so far has been "misdirection and denial.
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This sort of misdirection is part of what makes the show so tantalizing, but it also helps breed suspicion.
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And what I learned from that was, the key pivot for a great magician is the idea of misdirection.
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Just as in striking, you raise your rate of success by dulling the opponent's reactions with variety and misdirection.
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Mr. Evans lives a creative life of wily misdirection, all under the guise of a straight-ahead jazz pianist.
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Go: In Crystal Skillman's new play, "Open," a woman in the wake of tragedy resorts to magic and misdirection.
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Critic's Pick In Crystal Skillman's new play, a woman in the wake of tragedy resorts to magic and misdirection.
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Now, we have the official name, making it clear that the Blue Oval isn't big on surprises or misdirection.
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How much of this is going to go the way we think, and how much is Abrams-style misdirection?
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No misdirection here, as voters had been living with the results of the rate cap and still support it.
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He is also aware that his "reading list" could result in some misdirection, and that's O.K. with him, too.
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It is a baseless smear, wrapped entirely in partisan misdirection, topped off with a wildly irresponsible omission of fact.
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But, looking more closely, the decision reflects mostly a political reality, combined with a healthy helping of cynical economic misdirection.
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Like a magician using misdirection to manipulate her audience's attention, artist Carly Glovinski tricks her viewers into perceiving certain things.
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And here's what he said -- in two separate tweets sent Tuesday night: This is a classic bit of Trump misdirection.
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It's almost as if Las Vegas has come to Washington, D.C., and the hugely popular magic tricks always feature misdirection.
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Perhaps even they know: this memo was written in panic as a misdirection from the disturbing information we already know.
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And Giuliani's assertion that Trump would tell Mueller exactly what he has said publicly is, again, sort of a misdirection.
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He's a dab hand at misdirection, the sort of fellow who sets even stolid minds spinning in paranoia and perplexity.
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An earlier performance of the piece, by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, pulls off the same trick of sonic misdirection.
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There was also some pretty convincing misdirection — I got stuck on "donts" for NONOS and "bat," then "gum" for OAR.
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The subtle misdirection of those patterns, and the complicated rhythm of the colors, mean you could look at them forever.
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Although he agreed with the misdirection in the previous game, he said he was ready to pitch longer this time.
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He admired the misdirection deployed by Sam Koch of Baltimore, how he would show left, then crush the kick right.
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Assemblyman James Skoufis, a Hudson Valley Democrat, called the discrepancy "either a disconnect or a misdirection" by the governor's office.
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This is where I can' tell if this is just intentional misdirection or a case of blindly following the leader.
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The play borrowed misdirection from the infamous "Philly Special" that the Eagles used in Super Bowl LII against the Patriots.
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Played with spectacularly virtuosic timing and emotional misdirection by Dustin Hoffman, Harold is a sculptor feeling unappreciated late in life.
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Physical misdirection is a common trick — big, flashy gestures that draw your eye away from something the magician is hiding.
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Season 2 is full of so much talk about "Homer, Homer, Homer," it's more than likely a misdirection in some way.
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Instead, Trump's tweetstorm is consistent with his standard misdirection tactic of creating a fake crisis and portraying himself as the savior.
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Because of this—and because Judge Argyle had provided "very substantial and serious misdirection" to the jury—the convictions were quashed.
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Today we're talking about the dash(board) of a car, and the answer is M.P.H. – My favorite misdirection of the day!
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This song, wry and wistful, makes it clear that he's still writing from a place of barbed interiority and confessional misdirection.
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There was some misdirection today — I had "freak" for FIEND and "legit" for LICIT — and, of course, some jokes were cracked.
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I thought ENAMELWARE was actually kind of a gratuitous misdirection until I looked up all the pretty things you can get.
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It is admirable that James Schwab defended the truth by leaving his position with ICE when asked to participate in misdirection.
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The crux of Cox and Slee's charge of misdirection against Airbnb is how the purge affects the data released in December.
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It evokes its precursor in every scene: The narrative is full of misdirection, secret passageways and a complex array of outcomes.
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Early on, I fell for a bit of misdirection — "tramcar" for TRAMWAY and "bewitch" for BEGUILE — but crosses set me straight.
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Mostly it's sheer misdirection, a feint in the direction of global military conflict in a movie whose real concerns lie elsewhere.
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Before their legendary seasons from 1907 to 1912 there was no forward pass, no misdirection play, no receivers or tight ends.
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In the midst of a misdirection running fake, Williams slipped through the heart of the Giants defense untouched — and apparently unseen.
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Attribution is extremely tricky in the world of cybersecurity, where hackers routinely use misdirection and red herrings to fool their adversaries.
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It also constitutes a bit of misdirection, in that there is a bigger picture outside of this chronicle of self-absorption.
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Expect Doug Pederson to target Barton with play-action, rub routes, screens, high-low concepts and misdirection in the run game.
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Spoiler: every single possible sex scandal in a promo from Colton's season has been debunked as 100 percent pure misdirection so far.
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As such, there's a little misdirection going on, in that Facebook is including Instagram in the numerator but not the denominator here.
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At first I thought it was brilliant misdirection, a way to throw Dan off the scent that he was the real target.
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This misdirection is easy to defend, but it gets the defense moving and thinking before Wall begins to attack on the move.
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If we intend that the misdirection be only temporary and be done for justifiable reasons, most people wouldn't consider it a lie.
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Eventually, Facebook told Congress that the ads reached 10 million people, but Albright believed Facebook's focus on ads was an intentional misdirection.
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Teymur also had good success with a subtle misdirection, looking high and almost jumping up into a kick from a squatting stance.
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There's some suggestion that the story plays out either mostly or entirely inside the bunker, though that could easily be more misdirection.
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Patrick blamed the weekend's casualties on left-wing violence, the right-wing misdirection unicorn "Antifa," and the absence of prayer in schools.
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It also, if you've guessed that this clue is a misdirection from the question mark, could have something to do with ironing.
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While the nonstop backstabbing and perpetual turning of tables can grow tiresome, the flurry of intentional misdirection and outright sabotage works here.
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Cochran brilliantly used all of these methods of misdirection to confuse the jury and plant conflicting information and narratives in their minds.
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It's the type of sequence that we'll see throughout his career, twitchy misdirection that burns a defense already worried about his teammates.
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How can anyone be sure whether those clues aren't left there on purpose as a misdirection, as that Stuxnet stolen digital certificate?
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Bachelor promos are, of course, an exercise in misdirection, but it's easy to see that Peter is struggling making his final decision.
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As far as misdirection, I was happy to believe "gitmap" was a thing (making 44D "nog," short for noggin, instead of NOB).
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Mr. Romney had said he was "sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection" from administration officials, "including the president."
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Nabokov was a highbrow genre-changer, an originator of postmodern techniques: wordplay, stories constructed like puzzles, layers of allusion, tricks of misdirection.
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I wish Ward had not employed the tricks of lesser novelists, such as contrived cliffhangers and misdirection in order to engender suspense.
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The whole bit is misdirection, dependent on a quirk of pronunciation that's entirely alien to New Yorkers like David to begin with.
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That can be frustrating at times, but it's all a sort of misdirection that makes the final episode all the more jolting.
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But as climate science proves itself too difficult to refute in its entirety, they've doubled down on one tactic in particular: misdirection.
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The elaborate architecture of the book can feel like an exercise in misdirection, especially when Jackson turns to his treatment of women.
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ASLOPE is one of those words that you rarely use outside of crosswords, and "On the up and up?" is an interesting misdirection.
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Jim Sciutto's advice for the week ahead "Ignore the usual misdirection and new 'villains,'" the CNN anchor and chief national security correspondent tweeted.
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The public response from Trump's team about the meeting was rife with misdirection from the beginning, including at least nine instances of falsehoods.
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Reddit user McSlever thinks that Riverdale is using classic misdirection in order to mislead us from the truth about what happened to Jason.
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We are supposed to look at the first letter — or introduction — of the word "geometry," which is a SOFT G. 38D: Nice misdirection.
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That's very common for rookies and will improve with time, but it could prove disastrous against Baltimore's wealth of misdirection designs involving Jackson.
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At 61 Across, the clue "One who can see right through you?" is obviously misdirection, what with the question mark at the end.
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Sure, he told Sasha last week that it "could be 30 years for us here," but even that might have been a misdirection.
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Deception, misdirection, fabrication and fakery are the tricks of her trade, and there's plenty of all that in LET ME LIE (Berkley, $26).
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Oh, also, I surmise that most of us fell for a great bit of misdirection in this puzzle at the start, at 43D.
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To Sprague, who grew up on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, misdirection about whom the memorial benefitted seemed especially purposeful when donors visited.
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And maybe only by standing on the Streif could one see what a puzzle of misdirection, pitch, purchase, and centrifugal force it is.
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The misdirection lead to immediate speculation that ISIS had perpetrated the attack, before the French intelligence agency ANSSI pinned it on the GRU.
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I'm spelling all this out starkly, because in the spinning to come, it will be all too easy to lose yourself in misdirection.
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Until now, they also haven't given anybody a substantial interview, instead preferring to troll fans and journalists with evasive maneuvers and outright misdirection.
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It was executed higher up on the floor than I think I've ever seen, and sprinkled in for good measure was some deceitful misdirection.
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It's a misdirection of the "don't tread on me" impulse focused on cultural authority instead of government authority — hence the concept of cultural libertarianism.
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This Diane turn is a brilliant piece of misdirection from Lynch — we can trust the FBI, it turns out, but we can't trust Diane.
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Politicians have a reputation for lying, but that's a bit unfair — most of them try to stick to mere spin and misdirection, when possible.
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After three years of lies and misdirection, investigations and hearings, and sheer exhaustion from his relentless rhetoric, voters will choose a different path forward.
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Still, there were some clues that need highlighting: – 38A's "Compact material" sounds like we're supposed to be thinking about construction materials, but that's misdirection.
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From what I can tell, she is famous primarily for her relationship with another personality named D.J. Pauly D. #NowIKnow • 59A: Tough misdirection here.
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As the restaurant's name suggests, the menu lists Greek favorites, but a small section called Classic Dishes seemed to represent a bit of misdirection.
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But what we decided to go with was, using psychology and misdirection in an attempt to conceal the driver right in the driver's seat.
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First, as seen in the case of Ukraine, misdirection around the patterns of deployment of thousands of Russian operatives led to force-multiplying surprise.
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Not only do you have to know the "recipe" for a cryptic clue, but there is also some misdirection involved, which makes things tougher.
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The director Wash Westmoreland, sharing script credit with Richard Glatzer and Rebecca Lenkiewicz, opens the movie with some misdirection that plays with your expectations.
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In the end, these details read less like misdirection than like an acknowledgment that, despite his aloofness, Alan is deeply implicated in Adora's crimes.
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After the teams exchanged punts, the Razorbacks used a misdirection play on fourth-and-1 from their own 29 to keep the drive alive.
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There was some good misdirection in this puzzle — I had "At once" for PRONTO and "Zilch" for ZIPPO, and you might have had others.
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Over all, this is a pretty smooth solve: silver-tongued, charming, with just enough misdirection and off-kilter humor to make it a conquest.
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ANONYMOUS You have really loaded your letter with red herrings: your daughter being transgender, her Svengali partner, even the misdirection with polyamory and miniskirts.
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One of the most mind-bending elements of the NXIVM case is the coercion and misdirection that led women to hand over blackmail material.
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If the court does not plan to resolve the question in this way, then the way it phrased the question is an interesting misdirection.
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His story on Ramirez does not hold up well under scrutiny; his testimony to the Senate last week was filled with misdirection and untruths.
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They have joined Trump's campaign of misinformation and misdirection, aimed at devaluing fact and creating ambiguity and leaving voters unfamiliar with the details confused.
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But it's also because he's such a ready, eager conduit for his father's wrath, with a talent for exaggeration and misdirection that's clearly chromosomal.
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It's a misdirection that starts with Crowder and Love pretending to set a stagger screen for Calderon on the right side of the floor.
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There were some unusual names, some interesting letter combinations and a little bit of trivia and misdirection, but the solve seemed pretty even and accessible.
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" On the one hand, this is a pointed piece of misdirection, what Saul identifies as a "careful reconstruction of history, blatantly told in his favour.
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The best puzzles — including crosswords, of course — will often contain a bit of purposeful misdirection, and Sunil has offered up a challenge that's beyond tricky.
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Internet polling can help control for such misdirection, Jones said, because people who fill out online surveys don't have to interact with a live person.
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Even though the words are a misdirection to us and Jimmy Stewart, the blocking and movement telegraph everything we need to know about Helmore's character.
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The emphasis isn't on misdirection this year; it's on characters and motivations, and the incredible consequences of keeping sentient beings on a leash for decades.
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Magicians depend on misdirection to pull off their tricks; so does Google, and it has pulled off a trick that makes movie magic look trivial.
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It's a classic misdirection play, to focus attention on the chairmanship when it's the seats at the bottom of the membership ladder that really count.
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Email misdirection is, arguably, also an area that companies are going to have to pay more attention to with regards to upcoming EU data regulation.
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Accidents are prosecuted as crimes all the time, and yet the filmmakers brush right past that, allowing Ray's willful misdirection to pass as meaningful commentary.
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With a pretty lean theme, I tried for an open grid with some lighthearted misdirection, in order to complement the "What is it?" clues themselves.
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There's also a revealer, at 119A, that I kind of think could have been a misdirection if you were relying on it for solving advice.
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G.R. A calm, mature, post-electronic-dance-music anthem about romantic misdirection by Maty Noyes, a young singer who's recorded with Kygo and the Weeknd.
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We have a misdirection at 1D, but with only three letters, it's not that tough to figure out: "One talking to a driver?" is GPS.
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The point is that Howard may look oily — something about those pin collar shirts and his JC Penney catalog good looks — but this is misdirection.
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That's how trained I am to think about misdirection: I automatically think about other things a clue can mean, even if it's pretty simple wordplay.
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We are distracted by this misdirection and do not concentrate on the way Mr. Trump is gradually dismantling the safeguards earlier administrations put in place.
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Today's clue, however, is about college sports and being drafted into the pros or perhaps semiprofessional leagues after being in the N.C.A.A. 9A: More misdirection!
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They do so by throwing sand in the eyes of the American people, misrepresenting the facts and introducing alternate facts in an effort at misdirection.
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Given the overwhelming volume of evidence already amassed by investigators, Trump's cry-wolf strategy seems just as likely to be misdirection as Nixon's defense was.
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The big tease that Nora and Kevin are each somewhere (or someone) else is a prolonged act of misdirection — the kind Lindelof does so well.
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A gourmet meal is a kind of magic act, a sleight of hand and heat, often performed with a little misdirection and some fast talk.
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I know it's Thursday, but I think Will Shortz felt the theme was tricky enough that a lot of Thursday-style misdirection would be sadistic.
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"Never Look Away" traffics in all kinds of thorny, ambiguous material: It's about family secrets, psychological misdirection, the sometimes uncanny harmonies between artifice and reality.
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So, no, macronutrient threshold is not a reliable indicator of diet quality; is largely uninformative; and is prone to all manner of mischief, manipulation, and misdirection.
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If Team Trump really believed that our Justice Department was the den of treasonous vipers it describes they wouldn't be so prone to distraction and misdirection.
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The stock market pulled back Tuesday with the Dow falling by as much as 800 points after an initial surge, reflecting Trump's misdirection on trade talks.
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Crawford laid the groundwork for even more misdirection with this part; ahead of the game formally launching on Steam, he sent keys to YouTube video creators.
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Congressman Devin Nunes, who has continued his absurd misdirection on FISA in service of the Trump White House, this time with a thoroughly disingenuous #ReleaseTheMemo campaign.
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We know that Rih's secretly a gym leader herself so this might be an elaborate misdirection to prevent these pleb trainers getting in on her turf.
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It's Andy himself, something the audience realizes at almost the same time as everybody else, thanks to the show's incredibly deft deployment of some storytelling misdirection.
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The Void uses design sleight of hand and misdirection to guide guests through relatively small physical spaces that feel massive and epic in the virtual world.
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Flamingos by Grant Maierhofer (Itna Press) If it's an era of oversharing, it's also an era of overconsumption, to the point of nausea, disorientation, and misdirection.
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The person who killed Otis didn't care about the girls at all — it turns out that was a misdirection so we wouldn't identify the real culprit.
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Harlo: We shall see, but if it's a misdirection/frame-up operation, it only has to look plausible enough that they were serious about trying it.
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But upon crossing the threshold, you quickly realize that this facade is an aesthetic misdirection — the home is, in fact, a Trojan horse of subversive design.
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This raises the question of why NBC would even bother to send Kelly to interview a foreign strongman who is highly trained in deception and misdirection.
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Where most famous back and wheel kickers use a misdirection and positioning to set up the big spin, Rodriguez simply spins all the time, every time.
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Baker Mayfield was 6 of 9 for 91 yards on such plays, including a 41-yard strike to KhaDarel Hodge after leveraging both backs for misdirection.
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"Waiting" is sometimes used in clues as a misdirection: Someone could be waiting for another person to show up, or someone could be waiting on tables.
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You will have missed some glorious misdirection, like "Entertainers for whom lines quickly form?" for SLAM POETS and "Producer of loose leaf notes?" for TEA TASTER.
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As far as misdirection, I fell for some silly ones like "tilt" instead of TINT for a window, and "leaks" instead of LEADS for journo tips.
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But Mr. Trump is famous for misdirection when it comes to his appointees or testing out names of alternatives before finally circling back to earlier choices.
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"I am sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land, including the President," Romney said.
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Being the queen of misdirection that she is, Rowling does a splendid job of throwing us off Quirrell's scent until the reveal in the final chapter.
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The most recent example of this misdirection came at a hearing on energy tax policy held by the Senate Committee on Finance, at which Republican Sen.
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In theater, misdirection is a form of deception in which an audience's attention is focused on one thing in order to distract said attention from another.
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The broadcast was a bit of misdirection from the DPRK, which generally waits to report on Kim's actions for a few days to control the narrative.
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Of course, that could also be a clever misdirection (this could be a shot from a return trip after rescuing Tony Stark and Nebula in space).
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The entire debate, then, is a clever misdirection of an argument that is far more basically about power: Who has it, and who has access to it?
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In 2015 Mitra claimed that a buyer offered $1.5 billion for the firm, but in recent years the company's story has been one of misdirection and decline.
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The company's first two products are a spoofing protection module that integrates with any autonomous vehicle and a communication security manager that protects against hacking and misdirection.
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The Warriors are masterful at setting up plays with trickery and misdirection, getting the defense moving, thinking, and reacting before hammering it with a high ball screen.
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So began the latest twist to Russia's military intervention in the Syrian civil war, which has been characterized by subterfuge and misdirection since it started in September.
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Any link that Dr. Etzel is attempting to draw between her personal situation and the mission of the Office of Children's Health is an attempt at misdirection.
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Some malarkey does get thrown into the mix: since his aims are frequently carnal, Lee's mysticism can seem, even to him, like misdirection, or perhaps mood music.
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But they so dumb down the debate with lies, fear-mongering and misdirection, and with only a simple majority required to win, that the leave-the-E.
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But the layers of financial and managerial misdirection required to maintain a front organization also meant that its effects could sometimes be oblique to U.S. security goals.
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So the misdirection regarding the drinking age raises questions about whether Kavanaugh is also underselling the extent of his drinking, by characterizing it as limited and moderate.
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Because of this grid's structure, there weren't many big words to fill, but that doesn't mean there wasn't a bunch of original stuff and some good misdirection.
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A lot of my "clever" clues ended up on the proverbial cutting room floor, so I might have gotten too cute with my misdirection this time around.
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But by scraping away at layers of corporate misdirection, by asking and asking again and not letting go, Simpson reached something naked and ugly and unimpeachably true.
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" But another said that the all-hands, rather than put them at ease about Juul's future, "actually created a lot of uncertainty because of the obvious misdirection.
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Charles M. Blow This is not a presentation of "alternative facts," whatever that may mean, as Kellyanne Conway, President Trump's mistress of misdirection, posited over the weekend.
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I also found some little spots of skillful misdirection, like the cluing for SODA, ANTE and VIA, and I liked the use of both CLAMMY and EELY.
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It's borderline impossible to track what parameters each section of a drum controls, even if you wanted to—dizzy a game of sleight of hand and misdirection.
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But trying to hide your habits in a fog of browser misdirection, while it might sound like a good, easy way to confuse marketers, isn't a panacea either.
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Austin has track-star speed, which helped the Rams offense on misdirection plays and end-arounds, but as a receiver he finished dead last in DYAR in 2015.
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Trump justified his risky and indefensible action with an effort at misdirection worthy of the three-card monte dealers who still fleece yokels on the sidewalks of Manhattan.
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From a corporate perspective, we're talking about sustainable innovation, productivity and retention — with retention being the easiest to assess, and an obvious indicator of organizational cancer or misdirection.
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Some would (and do) argue that this is a brilliant form of misdirection, taking attention away from the virulent xenophobia that was on display yesterday at the convention.
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Republican members of the Intelligence Committee, led by Jim Jordan, of Ohio, and Devin Nunes, of California, made every attempt to confound voters with misdirection and conspiracy theories.
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The intensifying saga of presidential misdirection, recriminations and accusations is a sure sign that the corrosive impact on American politics triggered by the Russian election intrigue is worsening.
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The President's strategy also relies on his capacity to maintain the misdirection and falsehood that he has concocted around the issue that has been parroted by conservative media.
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"This document release is nothing more than an attempt at distraction and misdirection by an individual who created and then purged an illegal private email server," he said.
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Following a Clemson punt, the first of just five in the game, Alabama moved downfield in 11 plays, with a dizzying array of quick passes and misdirection runs.
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I enjoyed reading Kevin Der's Constructor Notes last week, where he classified some ways to make a clue end-of-week difficult: misdirection, vagueness, open-endedness, and trivia.
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Krug slashes through a fog of shame, determined oblivion and misdirection to unearth her family's role in the Holocaust as well as the stubborn silences in German life.
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It was an audacious act of misdirection, especially since the attack included a bomb sent to the New York offices of CNN, one of Trump's favorite punching bags.
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If you find yourself staring down a long, dark tunnel of aimlessness and misdirection, consider taking a step back to focus on the things that make you happy.
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One came on a run, a misdirection toss play last week, the type of play that normally goes for 20 to 30 yards, not a 49-yard touchdown.
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That is typically a day when tricks and misdirection abound, so being published for the first time on that day shows a mind and passion for such things.
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Anders has done well pressuring opponents to the fence and teeing off on them when they stop moving—good misdirection and ring awareness can make that a lot trickier.
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They tell their story, provide just enough misdirection to where you doubt even your own memory (on the second viewing), and then pull off their prestige with a flourish.
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A senior administration official on Wednesday characterized Trump's immigration comments to the anchors as a "misdirection play" meant to generate positive news coverage ahead of his highly scrutinized address.
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My favorite clue today was "Stop talking like a pirate?" for AVAST, which is probably better read "Stop, talking like a pirate?" and is a dandy bit of misdirection.
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It was a great moment in saying the quiet parts out loud, a bold option Shapiro refused in favour of the modern orthodoxy of misdirection regarding soft-skill development.
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As players delved deeper, however, it became clear that this was an act of misdirection: Really, Until Dawn has more in common with the creature features of the '80s.
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It's easy to forget, amidst the swirl of constant misdirection and insanity, that this is actually a continuation of the flimsy and paranoid claim that Obama "wiretapped" Trump Tower.
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Watson capped the drive with a misdirection play, hitting a cutting Darren Fells for the tight end's team-leading sixth receiving touchdown to give Houston a 9-483 lead.
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This finding, repeated countless times in courtrooms and law offices over the past 85033 years, is an attempt at scientific misdirection aimed at extricating Ford from lawsuits, critics say.
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But now, 10 years later, the legal filing has sown all manner of confusion — which itself comes in the wake of a disheartening amount of misdirection given to borrowers.
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But in an administration that has thus far been defined by capriciousness and opacity and a broader funky fug of constant misdirection, it's all kind of hard to credit.
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What was so effective here was misdirection of the cutesy, frivolous story it initially seems to be and the dark tale that Doki Doki Literature Club ends up telling.
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We spent the next half-hour discussing the rules of cluing (tenses and parts of speech have to match, what misdirection is all about) and finished the puzzle together.
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The more I discuss the dream, the more I realize the themes of misdirection and impermanence are pretty much a straight-up allegory with regards to my current life.
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Hilarious. There are also clues with some misdirection — like numbers that need to be simply spelled out (1A) or converted to letter(s) by the Roman numeral system (1D).
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Now, sure, the trailer's editing could be an elaborate misdirection, but if it's not, we may see her snuggling up with Supreme Leader Snoke before the trilogy is done.
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That brings with it a risk, of course: appealing to C.A.S. may well result in details of the breaches — and misdirection — City is said to have committed becoming public.
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But now, 2120 years later, the legal filing has sown all manner of confusion — which itself comes in the wake of a disheartening amount of misdirection given to borrowers.
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I've been accused of obscurantism, closet climate denialism and willful misdirection — all for the crime of insufficiently attesting to the dangers of a warming trend I do not deny.
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"The Walking Dead" set up a misdirection last week when it had Daryl learn about Rosita's assassination plan moments before we saw a shadowy bowman appear at the Sanctuary.
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And that's a curiosity: a group of experienced foreign affairs practitioners, through inattention or misdirection, is confusing "China," real or mythical, with a true enemy, the Chinese Communist Party.
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Throw in more than a splash of misdirection and some pretty pointed opinions on the political situation in the Philippines, and you've got an out-of-the-ordinary story.
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"I am sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land, including the president," he said in a statement.
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This finding, repeated countless times in courtrooms and law offices over the past 15 years, is an attempt at scientific misdirection aimed at extricating Ford from lawsuits, critics say.
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Hahn's body, her mess, her hair, her mouth, her mania, her misdirection, her absurdly sexy desperation — it all shows us that while Dick is Chris's muse, Hahn is Soloway's.
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The first season was a puzzle box, using editing and narrative misdirection to give the initial impression that it was a conventional television show with multiple plot threads happening concurrently.
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"Taken as a whole, all of her style rebellions have served the same purpose, and not only misdirection and distraction — strategies her husband knows all too well," Manigault Newman added.
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So of course I thought there was misdirection in this clue as well, and tried to think of what might be a feature of a coast, but not a cellphone.
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I knew it was misdirection (watch those question marks), but had not heard of a bird called a rail, as I don't frequent MARSHES as much as I probably should.
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Trump has been wagging the dog throughout his presidency, using Twitter and press conferences to spread lies, misdirection, and confusion, distracting the public from his genuine scandals and policy failures.
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I loved 27A for its misdirection – instead of a sign to anagram, "crazy" in this instance equaled MENTAL, so you got Dorothy's aunt EM, MENTAL about Hot, which became EMMENTHAL.
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Maskirovka goes well beyond the simple camouflage used by all armies and encompasses a range of ideas about misdirection and misinformation, as useful today as it has been for decades.
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The demise of a dad's sense of humor begins in early parenthood while workshopping jokes in front of babies, tiny philistines who think peekaboo is a hilarious bit of misdirection.
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"At a moment that cries out for visionary leadership and radical change, the pope is indulging in make-believe and misdirection," said Anne Barrett Doyle, a co-director of BishopAccountability.
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Atlanta used a series of misdirection plays to befuddle an obviously overanxious Packers secondary, and a 65-yard touchdown pass from Ryan to Mohamed Sanu put Atlanta ahead, 224-20.
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Throughout the impeachment process, President Trump and his allies have come up with novel ways to defend the president against allegations of misconduct that range from misdirection to outright lies.
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Maybe this will be a zombie season, maybe there's a family of murderous hillbillies, or maybe it's all a big misdirection and we're going to see the aliens from Asylum again.
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Yet while Tati and Keaton privileged unbroken takes that showcased their athletic brilliance, Iosseliani's preference for misdirection and insinuation place him more in the lineage of German-Jewish émigré Ernst Lubitsch.
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The tour deals with this largely by misdirection, pointing guests toward details that might seem revealing—like the elegant slope of Prince's handwriting—but nonetheless require additional extrapolation to feel meaningful.
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It just sits there so quietly, waiting to be discovered, and of all the ways to clue JEB, that misdirection is the last way I would have expected to see it.
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Perhaps their greatest bit of misdirection is that for as cutting-edge as they are, the Young Bucks are actually the last of a dying breed: the old-school tag team.
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I spelled KEIRA wrong twice, and fell for some of the misdirection — "spam" for SENT, "maximizes" for DYNAMITES (that was audacious, I'll admit) — but found most of it clever and doable.
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But whether it's through a case of misdirection or not, "False Bingo" suggests that while the minds of others are hard to know, we can assume they dwell on wicked games.
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That noise turns out to be coming from a television next door; it is merely misdirection like "Grand Horizons" as a whole, whose lunge at gravitas is too little, too late.
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The presence of Jean-Baptiste, an actor who brings an honest edge of realism to all her work, is an inspired bit of casting, but also a great piece of misdirection.
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Misdirection becomes integral to the level design as you progress, too, with Clustertruck's designers going out of their way to put you in scenarios that make you throw up your hands.
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Facebook shares have been hammered on the back of a blockbuster New York Times report detailing the missteps and misdirection involved in the company's response to Russian interference in the U.S. elections.
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But it's also a calculated misdirection, because anyone concerned about these issues shouldn't be worried about asylum-seekers stuck at the border — the source of these problems is much closer to home.
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While Twitter apparently made no effort to quantify the volume and influence of Russian-backed bots generating free tweet content around Brexit — so its focus on ads really looks like pure misdirection.
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But the difference here is how willingly Trump is stoking the flames, acting as a ringmaster of his own transition and behaving in a way that could charitably be described as misdirection.
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Since it began last November, initially in opposition to fuel-tax increases before morphing into a wider anti-Macron protest, the "yellow vest" movement has weakened markedly, plagued by infighting and misdirection.
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The case filed in the U.S. District Court in New York, Southern District argues that many immigrants have failed to appear because of bureaucratic errors and deliberate misdirection by immigration enforcement agencies.
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"I am sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land, including the President," Romney said in a statement posted to Twitter.
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I fell quite hard for some of the misdirection today — I had "heretic" for SKEPTIC, "sherpa" for NEPALI, "binge" for GORGE and a missed letter here and there that slowed me down.
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He is the leader of China, of course, but the clue was nice misdirection in the sense that it made me think strictly about people who are financially (but not politically) powerful.
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To the Editor: Re "Climate of Complete Certainty" (column, April 29): Bret Stephens does not deny the reality of climate change, but he uses a familiar strategy from the skeptical playbook: misdirection.
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When he talks about time dilation and different ways to create magic, write them down and strip them out and stick them into VR. Magic by Misdirection by Dariel Fitzkee, fantastic book.
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" As he gave a master class in changing the topic and misdirection, Trump tried to charm by joshing with reporters and tossing off observations about how the Kurdish people are "great fighters.
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Hekselman, 63, owes a lot to the more nebulous tone of Kurt Rosenwinkel, though he has a knack for playful misdirection and blues inflection that gives him an identity of his own.
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Hekselman, 63, owes a lot to the more nebulous tone of Kurt Rosenwinkel, though he has a knack for playful misdirection and blues inflection that gives him an identity of his own.
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And I find the times I've gotten scared the best are when there's some sort of camouflage or misdirection which allowed me to let my guard down, and then they got me.
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After what will likely be filled with much drama, frustrating misdirection and turmoil, the season is set to conclude on Inauguration Day, when Madame Keane is scheduled to take the oath as president.
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But in such misdirection lies the appeal of the loosely defined group, which has been responsible for upwards of 80 releases of shuddering, dystopian beats since they first formed May of last year.
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The answer to that is far from clear, but we should certainly expect more major malware incidents and more misdirection about their objectives as we move deeper into the cyber strangeness of 2017.
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However, company officials also noted to various outlets that it is possible the attackers could have simply left a trail to Chinese, Hong Kong, and Taiwanese IP addresses as a form of misdirection.
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After a rant last week whose collateral damage included the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Legere has just published another screed about T-Mobile's Binge On scheme — and it's just more of the same misdirection.
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When Zélie at last turns to Amari as her best friend — after a nice bit of misdirection where we're meant to think she's turning to her love interest instead — the moment feels unearned.
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Mr. Mendes, now 19, is releasing his third album this week, and it is self-titled, the kind of midcareer gesture that's generally meant to indicate a fresh start after years of misdirection.
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The on-ramp from early week to midweek is usually gentle, and while solving might take you more time and effort, the misdirection and wordplay in the midweek clues is totally worth it.
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As for misdirection, I was hoping to trick some people with a four-letter answer for "One in a story with an apple," especially since the three-letter answer was the obvious one.
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Though Bloomberg's views have shifted on the Iraq War, his remarks fed into some of the flimsy justification and misdirection to frame the war in Iraq as connected to the war on terror.
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Milk-gallon dead lifts, shared inchworms, synchronized walking and a little misdirection could be the keys to staying in shape and in harmony with loved ones during the holiday weeks ahead, experts say.
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In another bit of misdirection, I hope fellow baseball fans will appreciate the clue for TOTAL BASES ("A batter receives four for a grand slam"), once they realize RUNS BATTED IN doesn't fit.
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What LSU has to unearth is more imagination and some unexpected wrinkles — passes on first downs, misdirection with a speedy set of receivers (a staple early last season under Canada), some deep-throw gambles.
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At one point, a now forgotten magician was lured into the MK-ULTRA program to write a manual on misdirection, with the intention of helping agents sneak toxins into some sloe-eyed target's wine.
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Multiple bankruptcies, billion dollar losses, alleged misdirection of income to charitable foundations and, published reports suggesting potential further abuses of the tax code, are not the characteristics normally ascribed to a great business builder.
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The president's ability to divert attention is like that of a magician: He can tell you exactly how he does a trick, but you still can't force yourself to look away from his misdirection.
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From time to time Marshall emerges, howling at the moon, but even these moments are tinged with the tonality of a record that spends its time in a state of disrepair, misdirection, frustration, anger.
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Conciliation with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his country has been the single most consistent issue in a campaign and an administration that have prized disruption, inconsistency, and misdirection in almost every other respect.
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The movie, shot in and around Philadelphia, Mr. Shyamalan's hometown, proceeds nimbly and with suave misdirection toward a pair of rug-pulling final twists that an attentive viewer will probably be able to anticipate.
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A good example of this is the clue for SIERRA CLUB, which went from my submitted clue "Green group" to "Green giant," which is a nice upgrade in terms of surface reading and misdirection.
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The Hawkeyes used misdirection to catch USC off-balance, first with Tyrone Tracy going untouched on a reverse from 218 yards, then Smith-Marsette walking in from 274 yards out on the next drive.
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"Even so, I am sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land, including the President," Romney said in a statement posted on Twitter.
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Some on Reddit are already claiming the "Camp Sight" teaser is just a bit of misdirection, while others think this may be Murphy teasing that he's going to flesh out the alien subplot from Asylum.
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Meerkat chief Ben Rubin and newly hired chief operating officer Sima Sistani dreamt up the character solely for the purposes of misdirection (the real Herzick, who keeps a low social profile, is actually Sistani's husband).
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Trump's statement also included a Putin-esque misdirection play designed to cast doubt on the truth as well as it can be established -- that Khashoggi was murdered with the acquiescence of the Saudi crown prince.
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I liked the "Seinfeld" shout-outs of MAN PURSE and IT'S GO TIME, RICE-A-RONI, WHAT'S THAT, ESTATE TAX, HOT AIR, U.S.O. TOUR, STAN LEE, BAD EGGS and "I LOVE L.A." • 17A: Misdirection alert!
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There's also a separate, less charitable reading of the phrase as it's deployed by the pundit class — as a clever bit of misdirection intended to make elites seem in touch while they protect their power.
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He was a master of misdirection, sidestepping hard questions while portraying himself as the unfairly maligned hero of a story that featured a supporting cast of cunning and vindictive women who were after his riches.
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There is a bit of misdirection, I believe, in the case of two sort-of-twinned down answers, 3 and 36, that made me think that something else involving orders or admonitions was going on.
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She may be the thorn in Veronica's side that Consuelos and Aguirre-Sacasa painted her out to be, or this could all be misdirection, and she'll be lording her power over Hiram by season's end.
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KURTZ: Well, here is missed fire, Gillian, by the way, I took a little pleasure in White House official anonymously telling The Washington Post there is a little misdirection in the coverage of the process (ph).
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Clue of the Day for me was "Appealing figure?" for DEFENSE ATTORNEY, followed closely by "Shot putters' needs?" for SERA, a misdirection from sports to practicing medicine (putting a shot in someone's arm) that is brilliant.
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Instead of ignoring the story or simply scoffing at the obvious distracting attack, the Clinton campaign has fallen into the same kind of trap all those Republican candidates Trump defeated in the primaries fell for: misdirection.
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And the Times report published on Sunday reveals that authorities are becoming increasingly comfortable using this technology to racially profile individuals—the stated purpose is no longer an innocuous misdirection for an otherwise insidious use case.
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If there is a scrap of hope to be gleaned from President Trump's obvious misdirection this week, it is that Trump has veiled his attack on his own FBI director in the language of bipartisan constitutionalism.
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We talk about anonymity, but that's a misdirection: Look at Facebook comments—there's a lack of consequences and people aren't buying into the norms of a community and are imposing their own thoughts on what's possible.
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There's also "misdirection," in which prominent marketing come-ons may distract users from seeing check boxes that by default, say, sign them up for a newsletter or membership, spam their contacts or alter their home pages.
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Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane set two scoring records and José Mourinho tried a little financial misdirection in his postgame remarks on Tuesday as English soccer's traditional Boxing Day schedule overflowed with both goals and gripes.
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Don Lemon, who spoke on behalf of other anchors and millions of viewers, shared his exasperation with Chris Cuomo and questioned why it was worth trying to endure the pugnaciousness and misdirection that mark Conway's responses.
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The Cox Rathvon machine produced its usual cornucopia of cleverness and subtle misdirection, so it was a good enough fight for a lovely little bit of writing to — dare I dream — herald birdsong, warmth and Spring.
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When you first meet Benoit, he is sitting in an armchair, a nod to a genre staple and some teasing misdirection: He is, you soon appreciate, a hands-on sleuth if not an especially penetrative one.
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All this is merely one part of a greater worry that the internet, far from being a benevolent source of useful information, has become a swamp of lies, misdirection and conspiracy theories that is harming politics.
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Rather than listening to what witnesses were telling them, some of them chose to pound the table and regurgitate conspiracy theories about Ukraine that were long ago debunked by American intelligence as Russian disinformation and misdirection.
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I did find a handful of total stumpers, some anachronisms that I imagine will challenge the youngest among us, and some great misdirection and general vagueness that made for a very crunchy, slow but satisfying solve.
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If there was a misdirection to be played out by Grace, it was probably more likely in the face of the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong as it was within the bureaucracy of the U.S. government.
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I also wouldn't be surprised if this is a giant misdirection, and a character (Abraham has been floating around as the victim) that hasn't quite had the hype of these characters ends up getting the bat.
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The clue "Stick in the refrigerator" is great misdirection, but your eyes might have skipped it because there is no question mark, an optional feature on a Saturday that indicates that something is not as it seems.
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"Remember, the next time this happens, don't be fooled by the misdirection play — focus on what really matters, finding the stocks of high-quality companies at good prices, rather than fretting endlessly about the Fed," Cramer said.
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Though many Democrats are obsessed over whether the Russians helped turn the 28503 election, the truth is Vladimir Putin is a welcome misdirection for a failed liberal-progressive edifice complex that wants to hold on to power.
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But, much like a previous attempt to suspend police from the war on drugs, which soon collapsed, Heydarian says that he doesn't think "it's a permanent change but a Machiavellian calculation" to boost Duterte's approval ratings. Misdirection?
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So far, the second season has seemed to play its narrative in a more straightforward way than the debut season, but that will likely end up being its own form of misdirection over the next eight episodes.
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The various subgenres of thriller have always relied on a certain level of misdirection, of course, and plenty have arrived at their finales only to evince eye rolls instead of — or at least in addition to — exclamations.
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The central misdirection, however, is MF's claim that he is writing "an official accounting of events, as they happened," of his career as "the Widow Killer" to counter an unauthorized tell-all that he feels misrepresents him.
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Veidt's act of large-scale misdirection succeeds in misdirecting Wade, too: He came to New Jersey expecting to die soon along with everyone else, and now he is doomed to a life of lingering horror and uncertainty.
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Underneath this elaborate, SimCity-inspired misdirection is what Crawford has been working on since he raised $72,107 on Kickstarter in March 23, where he did little more than vaguely promise a piece of software called Frog Fractions 2.
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That, in itself, is a lively entry, but when you've come full circle around the hoped-for misdirection and back to the straightforward clue, it's enough to make you leave a divot in your forehead from slapping it.
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In fact, her appearance in the scene was almost entirely limited to camera angles above the neck, as Hitchcock, always the master of misdirection, quietly employed a Playboy cover girl for nearly all of the body close-ups.
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Nor has he invented a particularly novel set of alienation effects; the vocal strategy is familiar from hip-hop, the musical strategy familiar from any number of electronica and/or alternative rock albums hooked on faintness and misdirection.
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But there are times for hard conversations, and the language used to talk about sex, and particularly sexual misdeeds, remains wrapped in a gauze of misdirection and euphemism that risks contributing to harm, even when intentions are good.
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But the question banging around Washington in the wake of the Bloomberg story was whether the leaks represent reality or are just misdirection from White House officials known to plant embarrassing stories about their rivals in the media.
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Every time a mentally ill person – or even a terrorist – uses a gun in a mass shooting in America, people on the anti-gun left use the same misdirection to steer the conversation toward their favorite political solutions.
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Because I had avoided the innocent mistakes — and the more malicious misdirection — that had pervaded the first hours after the shooting, my first experience of the news was an accurate account of the actual events of the day.
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For now, however, in this long counterproliferation struggle, it remains unclear whether China is finally persuaded to exert its unequalled ability to dictate events in the North, or whether it is still engaging in equivocation, misdirection and subterfuge.
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The misdirection also offered a look at how "Westworld" might interact with the rampant speculation on Reddit, where the line between theory and spoiler disintegrated as users predicted all of the major twists in the show's first season.
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While trailers always show a little of what's to come, Bachelor Nation is usually a little better at misdirection and teasing than this video is, which suggests that spoiler culture is slowly weaving its way into the spotlight.
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But in the absence of some kind of suspect—and even then, history is rife with rushes to judgment in terrorism cases—the fake flag could indicate motive, or it could be deliberate misdirection or just a pointless joke.
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The Trump campaign dismissed Clinton's action, saying in a statement: "This document release is nothing more than an attempt at distraction and misdirection" from controversy about her use of a private email server when she was secretary of state.
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It was like Bowie released one final bit of misdirection to remind us how it ought to be done and then, with all of us doing our best to catch up with him one more time, he was gone.
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I'm too young to know what cruise control is, and also susceptible to his clever misdirection — pointing to the gas pedal made me miss that he's still guiding the car with his hand to make sure it stays straight.
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We see this clearly in his testing of Simon, where he gives the man enough rope to eventually hang himself with, and in Negan's handling of Rick, to whom Negan talks bluntly and without any misdirection or misplaced aggression.
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The first shot of Scarlet editor-in-chief Jacqueline (the great Melora Hardin) is a classic piece of misdirection, showing her strutting into a meeting in fire-engine-red cage heels and leather pants to lay down the law.
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Hoellwarth noted that nominating Jackson might have been a subtle act of misdirection, putting the focus on this curious figure and taking it off of the acting secretary who will be calling the shots for the next few months.
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I didn't find this puzzle challenging because of any wordplay or misdirection, but more because I am way too old to remember who KOOPA Troopa (a foe of Mario's in the Nintendo universe) is without help from The Boy.
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A few Republicans did respond to the report with alarm, most notably Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, who said he was "sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection" by the president and some in his circle.
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The film opens on a house party with a gaggle of teens tapping the free download button for Countdown of their own volition, and two of them command the first 10-odd minutes of screen time, but they're just misdirection.
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As a human being I feel compassionate for the victims of such acts, but I am perplexed as to the misdirection of anger with false accusations against me and hope they do not detract from the stories that should be heard.
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The play is a simple 1-5 spread pick-and-roll, but it starts with a bit of misdirection, taking the ball out of Wall's hands for the initial action before having him run into the high screen from Gortat.
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A few days later, though, the emails themselves were public (posted by Trump Jr. on Twitter) and the press was reporting that Trump had worked on the initial statement — a statement which now appeared to be an attempt at misdirection.
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That's partly the result of some excellent misdirection—most people suspected we'd complete the Tower of Joy sequence before Bran was forced out of the tree—but mostly it's because the end of this episode was genuinely surprising and tragic.
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As much as politicians are lambasted as spin artists, this level of misdirection is rare, and for good reason — if you build public support for the opposite of the changes you want to make, those changes are unlikely to endure.
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And the "Outside the Lines" investigation of the Rice case by Don Van Natta Jr. and Kevin Van Valkenburg, which influenced Mr. Simmons by describing "a pattern of misinformation and misdirection" at the league, was as tough as they come.
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In refuting what appeared to be cynical misdirection by a Russian diplomat, the coalition aimed attention to the areas it is in fact bombing, and where it now appears it may have killed a large number of civilians this week.
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In his 23 years as a barman at Cronin & Phelan's, Mr. Cremin has gained a loyal following of patrons who come for both his pour and his powers to dazzle with sleight of hand, misdirection, mentalism and other magic techniques.
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The EP was a delicious piece of misdirection from the dominant narrative established by other noise bands diving into techno—instead of blistered 4/4 beats, it was a sloppy, sleepy, and otherworldly collage of mussed-up, off-kilter rock riffs.
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It's important to note also that the entire trailer could just be a misdirection by the Westworld creators, because some of the footage was shot exclusively for the Super Bowl spot and won't appear in the season, according to Hollywood Reporter.
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Here's the Paper of Record, saying the president lied: Why it matters: The Times is famously hesitant to say a politician lied, with executive editor Dean Baquet telling NPR it needs to be far more egregious than normal political misdirection.
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Our loss became the ultimate dramatic misdirection; it prevented many of us thinking about whether a movie called The Last Jedi might do what seems obvious in retrospect: kill off the title character being played by the 66-year old man.
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She carries herself with a sighing shrug and a roll of the eyes, but make no mistake: The structure of this set is carefully assembled like a magic trick, using misdirection and audience manipulation, and the pace is managed deftly.
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With misdirection, precision and, at times, brute force, the Chiefs asserted themselves in a way the Colts had not encountered: Not once during a three-month surge from 1-5 to 10-6 did Indianapolis face a top-five offense.
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If huge segments of our economic activity manage to feel — aesthetically, if not legally — like fine-tuned rackets, then the segments that remain must consist of actual work with actual purpose, productive labor that requires no puffery or misdirection to sustain.
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Maureen's lost brother is not the only one: Other ectoplasmic apparitions make themselves known, and without quite preparing you for it, "Personal Shopper" becomes a sneakily effective horror film, complete with a gruesome murder and Hitchcockian flourishes of menace and misdirection.
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WASHINGTON — Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, continued on Friday to use misdirection and misleading claims to defend President Trump's contention that former President Barack Obama spied on him, as well as Mr. Trump's refusal to release his tax returns.
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Mr. Walden, who is one of the nicest people you would ever want to meet, quietly takes his aggressions out by writing the kind of clues that make many solvers, myself included, feel a lot like this dog: That's called misdirection.
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It ends with a slapdash fake-out, where the sisters were apparently in on a plan to trap and kill Littlefinger together—which begs the question: Shouldn't there be a greater purpose than misdirection to undo two women leads' character-building?
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Even when it seems he's being helpful (identifying the dagger used in the attempt on Bran's life, directing Ned Stark to question Ser Hugh of the Vale or to find Robert's bastards), he's actually playing a game of sly misdirection.
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Kevin Riordan's 1994 noir appropriation novel, Misdirection, is a slim volume that includes black-and-white images that could have been pulled from newspaper advertisements or history books, collaged together with uniformly printed sans serif textual narrative running throughout the spreads.
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If research librarians struggle to navigate the system, imagine trying to do it as a full-time teacher, or a single mom working for a nonprofit, or as anyone, really, who doesn't have the time or wherewithal to slog through misinformation and misdirection.
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Click here to view original GIFIt's more fun to believe in a world where magic can possibly exist but then you see a different camera angle of a cool magic trick and realize it's all just misdirection, tricks, and fantastic finger dexterity.
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Like a pageant contestant who really hopes they can nail that flute solo in the talent competition to make up for their Q & A flub, Trump is relying on noise and misdirection to keep us distracted from the process and what it brings.
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At next week's press conference, grand committee members will take questions following Allan's evidence, so expect swift condemnation of any fresh equivocation, misdirection or question-dodging from Facebook (which has already been accused by DCMS members of a pattern of evasive behavior).
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But this is a sly piece of misdirection: The rest of the movie will be devoted to blowing that fog away, using the tools of Hollywood spectacle to restore a measure of clarity to our understanding of the war and its aftermath.
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First, there's the appearance of the series' penny-farthing bicycle, and then we're given the circle-around-the-eye hand gesture from the same misdirection-filled TV show, usually accompanied by the phrase, "Be seeing you..." But back to that ridiculous concept device.
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"With all teams testing openly together and being forced to keep garage doors open in the pitlane, it's easy to think that the days of espionage and public misdirection are long behind us," wrote former McLaren mechanic Marc Priestley on the Sky website.
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This episode's airing was famously delayed after the shooting at Columbine High School; but despite its heavy subject matter and rather clumsy misdirection around the true nature of the threat, for most of its runtime "Earshot" remains on the lighter side of things.
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A brilliant man and prudent president, not embracing risk when he had the chance, partially set the table for Donald Trump — his tapping into outrage, his attacks on government's gutlessness and his misdirection of populists via rhetorical embrace of the working man.
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To start, viewers wanted clarity on how, exactly, Arya was able to make her way from the castle to come out of nowhere to defeat the Night King, a bit of misdirection in the story that led to a satisfying surprise for viewers.
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The "What the Heck Is That?" feature is meant to help solvers who were stumped by a factual clue learn new vocabulary, but often it's the misdirection in a clue or the assumptions solvers make about the clue that can trick them.
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As for Trump's defenders, there has been clear separation between the attorneys responsible for sketching out a half-plausible legal defense for Trump—as best they can—and the lawyers tasked mostly with providing a steady stream of tangential obfuscation and misdirection.
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This is usually where such movies fall apart, but Jonathan Penner's sharp script (from a story by Robert Damon Schneck) and Stacy Title's assured direction keep the heat on, and there's some resourceful misdirection that deepens the story and intensifies the scares.
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Since the airstrikes, administration officials have steadily increased their criticism of Russia, which has variously denied that a chemical attack occurred and has blamed it on anti-Assad rebels, giving Mr. Trump, the master of misdirection, a taste of his own medicine.
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Does Trump laugh at his misdirection and his head fakes, as when he played footsie with Al Gore on Monday of last week and then, on Wednesday, kicked him hard by naming a climate-change denier to lead the Environmental Protection Agency?
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"It does not require a stretch to imagine attackers impersonating election officials via spoofed domains in order to spread disinformation, conduct voter misdirection or voter-suppression campaigns, or even to inject malware into government networks," said Valimail's Seth Blank, who authored the research.
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" And after the Mueller report came out, Romney offered perhaps the toughest criticism of any Republican lawmaker, saying he was "sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land, including the President.
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First, and we have to keep saying this because this fact keeps getting obscured in the subterfuge of deflection, misdirection and ideological finger-pointing about what has yet to be proven: It is absolutely clear that the Russians did interfere in our election.
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Those close to Son say his faith in WeWork isn't based on misdirection as much as it's founded in his belief that the company will turn into a massive financial success with time and others would view it in a similar light.
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Logan Lucky is aware that a good portion of its audience lacks the knack and know-how of its characters when it comes to things like hydraulics and mining and misdirection, and it relies on our surprise to concoct a lot of the fun.
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"The fact that Childish Gambino's 'This is America' tackles police brutality, gun violence, media misdirection, and the use of African Americans as a brand shield, all while dancing in Jim Crow-style caricature, shows a transcendence or mere performance and demands attention," one person tweeted.
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Sometimes called a hybrid war after the intervention in Ukraine in 2014 that brought these tactics to light, it is a doctrine of tightly integrated diplomacy and messaging — including the art of military misdirection called maskirovka — along with conventional force, at play now in Syria.
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One could say this change of heart was a matter of convenience, but whatever the reason, it is in the public interest for the nation to learn what Cohen knows about a President who rose to power via the lifelong practice of deception and misdirection.
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Speaking of playing with words, if there is anyone out there wondering what we mean by clue misdirection, I have found what I believe is the perfect visual explainer: Patrick Berry's use of stair-step blocks in his themeless puzzles inspired this puzzle's creation.
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After all the clues and misdirection and timeline-jumping, Pizzolatto gives most of it away in a large info-dump when the elderly Hays and West pay a visit to Watts, the one-eyed man who has been hovering around the action all season.
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Instead of dribbling into the paint and lofting a high floater over shot blockers who want him to take that exact shot, as seen below, why not sprinkle some craft and misdirection into his game by pump-faking his way to the free-throw line?
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This clever misdirection has led journalist and author Heather Rogers to describe Keep America Beautiful as the first corporate greenwashing front, as it has helped shift the public focus to consumer recycling behavior and actively thwarted legislation that would increase extended producer responsibility for waste management.
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Finally, during the 2014–'15 NFL season — the same season of Deflategate — the Patriots heavily skirted NFL rules by essentially mindfucking their opponents during games by using misdirection to confuse them regarding which Patriots players were eligible and ineligible to receive the ball in a given play.
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This makes "2017" a snapshot not so much of our time but of Louis C. K. in his prime, a tight hour and 15 minutes revealing a dizzying number of ways to get a belly laugh: misdirection, juxtaposition, silly voices, act-outs, rambling personal stories, sex jokes.
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At first glance, Morris's artworks, and his photos especially, seem to start a conversation about identity politics; however, he deliberately avoids this and goes in the opposite direction: the clothing the models wear is de-gendered and unidentifiable, preserving the anonymity of their identities by way of misdirection.
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At a new Thai restaurant tucked away on a quiet stretch of Carroll Gardens, the method of misdirection has the opposite effect, reeling in a certain breed of New Yorker for whom the interplay of an underexplored cuisine, a well-regarded chef, and a memorably insouciant name is irresistible.
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What has become increasingly clear from the growing sound and fury over privacy and Facebook (and Facebook and privacy), is that a key plank of the company's strategy to fight against the rise of consumer privacy as a mainstream concern is misdirection and cynical exploitation of valid security concerns.
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In his very funny Netflix special "America Is the Greatest Country in the United States," Friedlander, playing an outrageously arrogant expert on all things, uses crowd work as a kind of misdirection, a trick to make his finely crafted jokes seem more off the cuff than they are.
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But they suspect that those Hacking Team features may have been a false flag added by Sandworm to throw off investigators, given that the Olympic Destroyer malware that the GRU deployed around the same time included an unprecedented level of misdirection pointing to both North Korea and China.
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Clues of the Day (nontheme variety) for me were "Rule of crime?" for ANN, the crime fiction author, "VW head?" for STU (no, the chief executive of Volkswagen is not named STU; it's alphabetic misdirection) and a nod back to the turning theme with "One making a U turn?" for VANNA.
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Facebook under pressure over Soros smear tactics Facebook's weapon amid chaos and controversy: misdirection Zuckerberg denies knowledge of Facebook's work with GOP opposition research firm Facebook will change algorithm to demote "borderline content" that almost violates policies If you didn't yet do so, go read The New York Times report.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — All of the quarterback intrigue that dominated the buildup to the N.F.L. draft, the silence and subterfuge and misdirection, somehow failed to ensnare the Giants, who did not tip their highest pick in 237 years so much as sprinkle clues about their intentions over the last four months.
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While much of what Facebook's policy staffers have inked here is an intentional nightcap made of misdirection and equivocation (with lashings of snoozy repetition), one nugget of new intel that jumps out is a long list of partners Facebook gave special data access to — via API agreements it calls "integration partnerships".
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There are a lot of ways to increase clue difficulty including: ■ Misdirection (the clue appears to have one specific meaning, but actually means something else) ■ Vagueness (the clue could mean a lot of different things) ■ Open-endedness (the clue reads one way, but there are a lot of possible answers; i.e.
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By paying close, critical attention to the alt-right — most important, doing so long enough to see through its fog of lies, misdirection and trolling — he has developed a well-rounded understanding of the movement, and created an important guide to one of the most disturbing political developments of our time.
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That apt mission doctrine for a presidency blazing with abuses of power, conflicts of interest and unhinged behavior is the work of White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, whose barn burner of a briefing on a day of political train wrecks, staggering misdirection and reality bending sent a clear message.
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In journalism, Gene Kerrigan, who writes for The Irish Independent newspaper (as well as writing crime novels), regularly cuts right through the jaw-dropping quantities of blather and spin and double talk and misdirection and outright lies that coat Irish politics, and gets to the heart of the matter in one brief column.
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Now let's get back to Martin Gardner and — My Favorite Funny Quickies In building up a file of puzzles over the decades, I have created a special folder in which I toss notes on short problems with answers that are based on some sort of joke, swindle, misdirection or other kind of flimflammery.
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Well, the theme is really well hidden, and let's not forget about the clues: 1A: Tough and clever misdirection, right out of the gate: A "Spelling aid?" sounds like it might be a tip for remembering how to spell words, but today it refers to casting spells, and the answer is MOJO.
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From one angle, it takes courage to present oneself the way Cusk does here, as a woman whose confidence in her own life must first be destroyed in order for it to be remodeled; from another, challenging one's own narrative authority seems an evasive misdirection, a way to absolve oneself of unmentioned transgressions.
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O.P. Leader Puts New Spin on Wiretaps" (front page, March 23): The dog and pony show of misdirection and obfuscation continues with the bizarre decision of the House Intelligence Committee's chairman, Representative Devin Nunes, to brief the White House and the press regarding conversations of Trump aides that were picked up "incidentally.
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O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story has made me extremely cognizant of the fact that crafting a quality misdirection ploy — here referred to as a narrative, since it's done with words rather than snazzy slight of hand — is also a quality skill for a courtroom attorney (you know, besides being well-versed in the law).
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The late addition to the credits of Scorsese's revered editor Thelma Schoonmaker, supplementing the work of the estimable Claire Simpson, hints at a high level of creative uncertainty over just how to fillet and present Nesbø's dense, misdirection-filled yarn Katie Walsh, The Detroit Free Press: It's clear from the opening scenes that "The Snowman" is off.
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The AirDrop messages are a brilliant piece of misdirection, and along with the title screen design, they set your expectations that the titular missed messages are going to be digital in nature — that this is going to be a tale about relationships in a digital age a la Don't Take It Personally, Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story.
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The fact that someone in the film comments on Rachael's shiny red lips actually had me wondering if it was a bit of misdirection; a comment made to either draw attention to that element and distract from the weird facial animation, or explain away why they were shinier than they should have been in the first place.
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In the filing, Kik's legal team denied that charge, claiming that the SEC's allegations about its financial condition "is solely designed for misdirection, thereby prejudicing Kik and portraying it in a negative light" and that Kik began working on a cryptocurrency-based model after exploring monetization options that would help it compete against larger tech companies.
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Once again, read the clue carefully: Mr. Kwong is asking for "characters," so the answer has to be plural, and the only letter that appears more than once in "Annie" is the letter N. – Misdirection: The clue "Turning point?" at 19D is not referring to a pivotal point in a story, it refers to literal turning.
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He'll also have a soapbox in the Oval Office where he can tell an army of true believers who butt-chug his every lie and misdirection—while his Cabinet grows more cannibalistic and racist and adds billions to its net worth—about how great a fight between a 49-0 veteran and a 0-0 novice will be.
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Mitt Romney offered harsh criticism of the Trump administration after reading the recently released redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian involvement in the 2016 election, saying he was "sickened" by the "dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land including the President" in a statement on Twitter Friday.
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Either way, this was a clean, silky smooth puzzle with enough misdirection to challenge me as I knocked the rust off my vacation pen (I had to edit my first four entries, thank you very much), and plenty of the very dry, but gentle, wit and subtle self-references that make Ms. Weintraub's cluing so distinctive.
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But as with past moments that have felt like fake-outs and misdirection, the producers would be advised not to be too coy about it for too long, lest they undermine an episode that, until that closing scene, felt as if it had gone a long way toward steering AMC's flagship series back onto the right course.
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I struggle with whether some of their behaviors are an intentional decision on their part to engage in either misdirection, or to overlook the facts because they have a fealty to the president or because they want to put a stake in the ground in right-wing media or because it just works in their districts.
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Misdirection is when you look at a clue like 20D's "One who tries to avoid being touched" and your brain starts to run through the names of disorders where people don't like being touched because that's got to be what the constructor is thinking, right, and then the answer winds up being an odd word like EPEEIST.
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You can read the full document here on CNN... >> Key line from the letter: "The President and his aides are engaging in a campaign of misinformation and misdirection in an attempt to normalize the act of soliciting foreign powers to interfere in our elections..." "CONFESSION ON CAMERA" That was the Thursday evening headline on HuffPost, and one that I thought summarized things magnificently.
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The existence of a film related to writer Drew Goddard's found-footage monster hit Cloverfield came totally out of left field — Goddard himself had said there were no plans for a follow-up just three months earlier — but this is the land of J.J. Abrams and his production company Bad Robot, where misdirection and secrecy are often part of the creative process itself.
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Kyle Shanahan amplified his father's scheme with enough speed and misdirection and pre-snap subterfuge to feel comfortable calling a run on Sunday in a standard passing situation — 3rd-and-8 at the Packers' 36-yard line — and then watching Raheem Mostert, an undrafted speedster playing for his seventh team, scamper just about untouched for the first of his four touchdowns.
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DAVID REISER, TAKOMA PARK, MD. To the Editor: Re "Trump Asks Putin About Meddling During Election" (front page, July 8): Amid the misdirection and misleading statements by the leaders of the United States and Russia at the G-20 conference, there is, as you report, one area that offers hope of cooperation: the de-escalation of the war in Syria.
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This misdirection gives the governor cover to raid tens of millions of dedicated transit dollars to fund other projects, spend two years refusing to fund the M.T.A.'s ambitious 2015-19 capital plan to invest in subway and bus infrastructure and — just a few months ago — wipe $65 million a year from our subways and buses with the stroke of a pen.
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They could try to get the ball to the perimeter, or at least make it look as if that is where the ball is going, rather than try to break through a front seven that has held opposing teams to 62 rushing yards per game — more than 35 fewer than the second-best team in the F.B.S. "Misdirection," Streeter said.
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Perhaps most importantly, though, it allowed Sessions to build on a theme that Republicans have been airing since last week's Comey hearing: the idea that if Trump, Sessions, and the rest of the administration weren't covering up explicit collusion with Russia, everything they've done since the election — from the omissions on security clearance forms to the misdirection about why Comey was fired — is vindicated.
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From an article in WND on December 27, 2016 we, perhaps, unearth what any attempted misdirection and obfuscation surrounding Fast and Furious intended to conceal: However, since 2023 WND has reported that documents released by Judicial Watch and Wikileaks showed Clinton's State Department engineering the clandestine transfer of weapons from Libya to Syria that ended up in the hands of terrorist groups aligned with ISIS and al-Qaida.
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The OA has had critics from the beginning who felt it was born of pretension (Marling, who stars in the show, and Batmanglij, who writes and directs several episodes, met at Georgetown University and they are not shy about the cerebral bond they share, speaking to reporters about Adam Curtis, Hilma af Klint, and Leonora Carrington), or that it practiced willful misdirection in lieu of actually saying anything concrete.
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While, last year, the UK parliament got so frustrated with Facebook's evasive behavior during a timely enquiry into online disinformation, which saw its questions fobbed off by a parade of Zuckerberg stand-ins armed with spin and misdirection, that a sort of intergovernmental alchemy occurred — and the International Grand Committee on Disinformation was formed in an eye-blink, bringing multiple parliaments together to apply democratic pressure to Facebook.
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Life's certainly an up-and-down, up-and-down sort of affair, although for children the downs seem to come as a surprise—almost as a delight, being so outrageous, so difficult to believe—whereas for us, sitting on the wall, clutching our tumblers, it's the ups that have come to appear a little preposterous, hard to credit; they strike us as a cunning bit of misdirection, rarer than a blood-red moon.
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It's easy to see why liberals and Democrats would prefer Hillary to Trump, but aside from the protection and advancement of their own welfare, it's hard to understand, much less appreciate, the actions of the conservative clerisy Even for those who, like the author of this piece, appreciate the cerebration of the right (if not so much any of its factions), the performance of the Never Trumpers seems more like ambition and what magicians call misdirection than anything idealistic.
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Brian de Palma's original Mission Impossible was a twisty, pyrotechnic thriller; John Woo's sequel was a gun-slinging, slow-mo Hong Kong action built out of an identity psychodrama; J.J. Abrams brought his blend of breathless pacing, relatable family drama, and empty McGuffins to the third; for his live-action debut, Incredibles director Brad Bird turned the fourth into a highlight reel of impeccably staged action set pieces; for the fifth film, Christopher McQuarrie, the writer of The Usual Suspects, mixed old-fashioned sequences with political intrigue and stylish misdirection.
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The controversy stems from the fact that a large number of delegates believe they cannot in good conscience vote for presumed nominee Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE, while the confusion stems from either a misunderstanding of the history and rules of the Republican National Convention, or more recently a blizzard of misinformation and misdirection coming from those who wish delegates were bound Here are the facts about delegates to the Republican National Convention and efforts to bind their vote according to primary results or instructions from their state party.
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