Although many of his escapes relied on technical skills such as lock-picking and contortion, he also performed tricks such as Metamorphosis and the Chinese Water Torture Cell, which are essentially classic stage illusions reliant on cleverly designed props.

As a teenager, he designed " perpetual motion machines ", concealing their ( necessary ) defects so cleverly that his secondary-school teachers could not discover them.

Though the shotgun is a pass-dominated formation, a cleverly designed halfback draw play can put defenses off-guard and a fast halfback can get good yardage until the defense recovers from their mistake.

The main disadvantage is that they may require significantly more processing and memory resources than cleverly designed IIR variants.

One famous example was a large silver tree with cleverly designed pipes which dispensed various drinks.

They have become used to it over time, and the system was also cleverly designed to be extremely user-friendly.

Big Dumb Boosters ( BDB ) are a general class of launch vehicle built around the idea that it is cheaper to mass produce and operate large, strong, heavy rockets of simple design than it is to build a few smaller, lighter, more cleverly designed ones.

" The edge of the glass is sometimes hidden by a cleverly designed pattern in the floor.

A beautiful nude recumbent statue of Percy Bysshe Shelley ( 1892 ) upon a cleverly designed base is the centrepiece of the Shelley Memorial at University College, Oxford.

Note how this poster illustration was cleverly designed to disguise the face of Parker Fennelly, who stepped in to replace series regular Percy Kilbride.

As Voysey noted at the time, ‘ The winning design admirably fits the site and is cleverly designed to make the best of the difficult shape ’.

Your goal is to prevent Bill's legions of clones from installing " Wingdows ", a virus " cleverly designed to resemble a popular operating system ", on a variety of computers running other operating systems.

Haxan decided to follow a similar marketing strategy as Blair Witch and created a website, long before the show was set to air, called " Freakylinks. com " which was cleverly designed to look like an amateurish, home-brew website made by real-life paranormal enthusiasts.

The lettering in a comic is usually designed to be unobtrusive, and in some cases ( e. g. The Sandman ) is used cleverly to differentiate between different characters.

Tables were cleverly hinged to fold down into a box the size of a briefcase, chess board boxes would contain tripod legs and a telescopic column to convert into a table ; chairs that would breakdown to a minimal size and could also be altered to become a sedan were all designed.

It is built up through initial high position, wealth, power, ability, through cleverly establishing social ties to a number of prominent people, as well as through avoidance of acts that would cause unfavorable comment.

Jaggers' iron control over her ( `` she would remove her hands from any dish she put before him, hesitatingly, as if she dreaded his calling her back ) '' ) rests on his having once got her acquitted of a murder charge by cleverly contriving her sleeves at the trial to conceal her strength and by passing off the lacerations on the backs of her hands as the scratches of brambles rather than of human fingernails.

Mr. Baum cleverly disguised his views on life, politics, and religion.

By remaining on the move, he cleverly avoided battles with large concentrations of heavy Frankish cavalry, while maximizing his advantages of mobility and the general climate of fear of Viking unpredictability.

By making the binomial parameter depend on a random event, he cleverly escapes a philosophical quagmire that was an issue he most likely was not even aware of.

Some implementations do not neatly fit either category: a DOM approach can keep its persistent data on disk, cleverly organized for speed ( editors such as SoftQuad Author / Editor and large-document browser / indexers such as DynaText do this ); while a SAX approach can cleverly cache information for later use ( any validating SAX parser keeps more information than described above ).

Hailed by both critics and fans as one of his best albums, it was praised as " a superb new album which sees a return to the form he showed to full effect on those classics like ' Only Visiting This Planet ' and ' So Long Ago the Garden ' back in the mid seventies " with 13 new " songs are cleverly arranged and produced, with plenty of pertinent lyrical imagery and the sly wit of yore amongst the electric guitar solos and breezy ( sampled?

In the 17th century one end of the Piazza Ducale was enclosed by the concave Baroque façade of the Cathedral, cleverly adjusted to bring the ancient duomo into a line perpendicular to the axis of the piazza and centered on it.

How cleverly, without our suspecting it, did Satan influence leading ministers to derail the Church in many ways !... Now JESUS CHRIST, through His chosen apostle, is going to RULE on this question once and for all !... How did it get into our mid-and-latter 20th century society?

Each of the letters tend to be droll and witty, but cleverly turned into a short sermon in order to make a point, whether it is on fashion, pornography, capitalism, or the communications industry.

Querelle had cleverly arranged it so that his murder of Vic is also blamed on Gil.

In cartoons with non-Western themes, he uses various aliases, including " Chilkoot Sam " ( named for the Chilkoot Trail ; Sam pronounces it " Chilli-koot ") in 14 Carrot Rabbit ( although in the same cartoon, when he tries to gain Bugs Bunny's trust, he cleverly invents alias " Square-deal Sam "), " Riff Raff Sam " in Sahara Hare, " Sam Schulz " in Big House Bunny, " Seagoin ' Sam " in Buccaneer Bunny, " Shanghai Sam " in Mutiny on the Bunny, and " Sam Von Schamm the Hessian " in Bunker Hill Bunny and many others.

The lofty language and uplifting lyrics referenced Belize's former status as a slave society indebted to profits from forestry, cleverly linking it to the end of Belize's colonial period, a process that culminated on September 21, 1981.

Palma Railway Station ( Coordinates: ) is a subtle, relatively small brown brick building with a large " Ferrocarril de Sóller " sign on its façade, partly given up to a museum, cleverly renovated so that the large glass windows reflect the train tracks to make them look as if they go on into the rooms.

This event also illustrated the new nature of Soviet politics — the most decisive attack on the Stalinists was delivered by defense minister Georgy Zhukov, and the implied threat to the plotters was clear ; however, none of the " anti − party group " were killed or even arrested, and Khrushchev disposed of them quite cleverly: Georgy Malenkov was sent to manage a power station in Kazakhstan, and Vyacheslav Molotov, one of the most die-hard Stalinists, was made ambassador to Mongolia and later the Soviet representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The album was followed by The Vanishing Race in 1993, which was supported by the hit single " Goodbye " produced by David Foster, with lyrics by Linda Thompson — which, although not popular in the United States, was critically praised and gained a large following outside the country, especially in Asia where in many countries they would reach number No. 1, and in Taiwan, Power Station & Terry Lin ( a huge fan of Air Supply himself ) covered it and cleverly called it " I'd rather love the sea / Shanghai rather than loving you " ( 愛上你不如愛上 海 / 愛上你不如愛 上海 ) as a play on Shanghai's geographical relationship with the sea in 2009.

Juan Cole, Professor of Modern Middle East History at the University of Michigan, argues MEMRI has a tendency to " cleverly cherry-pick the vast Arabic press, which serves 300 million people, for the most extreme and objectionable articles and editorials ... On more than one occasion I have seen, say, a bigoted Arabic article translated by MEMRI and when I went to the source on the web, found that it was on the same op-ed page with other, moderate articles arguing for tolerance.

Fortune stated that the first Maybach models had poor driving dynamics compared to its contemporaries from Rolls-Royce and Bentley, as " Mercedes took an aging S-class chassis and plopped an absurdly elongated body on it ... rather than develop a new car from the wheels up, as BMW did with Rolls-Royce, or cleverly use the underpinnings of an existing model like the Audi A8 for a new Bentley ".

So any text in classical Chinese from the region is not going to give a clear notion about the actual speech of the writer, although there may have been cleverly disguised puns based on local pronunciations which are lost on modern readers or other dialect speakers.

He displayed a commanding manner, brilliant rhetoric, and sharp debating skills that cleverly utilized broad literary and historical knowledge.

Hortense cleverly disguised her pregnancy ( she was by then, in her sixth month ), during the baptism of Napoleon's son, Napoleon II when she was chosen to be one of the child's godmothers, an honour she shared with Madame Mère, mother of the Emperor.

The flower has long been associated with human manner, as one man cleverly stated: “ Nature sports as much with the colours of this little flower as she does with the features of the human countenance .” The pansy ’ s particular connection to human thought and emotion is mirrored in one Dr. Evan ’ s poems, where he captures the whimsical, yet deep emotional roots of the pansy ’ s symbolism: “ Pied Pansy ,-once a vestal fair / In Cerestrain ,-now droops-/ Stained by the bolt of love her purple breast ,/ And ‘ freaked with jet ’ her party-colored vest ”.

Various methods have been employed to reduce the performance cost of z-buffering, such as lossless compression ( computer resources to compress / decompress are cheaper than bandwidth ) and ultra fast hardware z-clear that makes obsolete the " one frame positive, one frame negative " trick ( skipping inter-frame clear altogether using signed numbers to cleverly check depths ).

" A later campaign used the well-known song tune of " Smoke Gets in Your Eyes " cleverly reworded as ::" They asked me how I knew, it was Esso Blue, I of course replied, with lower grades one buys, smoke gets in your eyes.

The device drivers had to be cleverly written as they could only occupy one or two memory pages of 128 12-bit words, and had to be able to run in any page in field 0.

) Just before his death, it was revealed that Phil was actually an extremely wealthy individual who chose to live life among the poor ( a former stockbroker suffering from Howard Hughes syndrome )— in fact, the show cleverly suggested the New York Harmonic Orchestra was known as the " PHILharmonic Orchestra " because Phil was one of its greatest patrons.

Skeptics have argued that many of Kulagina's feats could easily be performed by one practiced in sleight of hand, through means such as cleverly concealed or disguised threads, small pieces of magnetic metal, or mirrors.

Botafogo, one of the four Rio giants, had been enjoying a good time since 1994 and had one of its best squads since the departure of Garrincha but they were no match for the still unknown Juventude, a club that rocketed from obscurity to nationwide fame thanks to millions pumped in by sponsors ( mostly Parmalat ) and cleverly used by its managers.

In the phrase " change from major to minor ", Porter begins with an A ♭ major chord and ends with an A ♭ minor one, cleverly matching words and music.

Enterprising people from Pfoho ( Andy and Aric ) then made a bold, daytime raid, stealing the gong that had begun the whole affair in a covertable, and cleverly closed the gates of C-Entry ( which contains the dining hall at the center of the controversy ) with a bike lock at lunch hour one day, creating chaos.

The pharaoh is troubled and at a loss for what to do in order to prevent the upcoming disaster, however, Joseph cleverly suggests that each year one fifth of the crops are put aside and kept for rationing in order to save Egypt.

In his patent, Whittle cleverly hedges his bets, and describes an engine with two axial compressor stages and one centrifugal, thus anticipating both routes forward.

In this last round, there were four cleverly named categories, each of which dealt with one subject.

The Mandarin allows this on the condition that no one must ever know that San Toy is a girl, cleverly preventing the marriage from happening.

Haque went on to note that " the tightly woven and hilarious storyline, combined with a constant barrage of cleverly inserted random jokes, and some truly unique imagery help make this episode one of the finest in the series.

At first, Kyle tries to call " shenanigans " in an attempt to bring Officer Barbrady's attention to the rigged game, but the carny running the stall cleverly replaces the last ball with one that is small enough to fit through the hole.