illusory tricks

Washington keeps learning illusory tricks from Hollywood, but rarely in recent years have movie makers trained a realistic eye on the capital.

Let Canidius do the real work while Antonius, enjoying the reputation, dazzles the world with the illusory tricks of a magician.

Frollo orders her arrest for insulting him, but Esmeralda uses illusory tricks to disappear, after which Frollo accuses her of witchcraft.