If art dealers are hocus-pocus, are auctions so safe?. From Wordnik.com. [How to Sell a Museum Masterpiece] Reference
To some, it sounds like little more than hocus-pocus. From Wordnik.com. ['Hindenburg' Creator Sticks to Guns] Reference
Check out this remarkable bit of rhetorical hocus-pocus. From Wordnik.com. [Bush: 2006 Elections Showed Mandate For "Surge"] Reference
So Doc did his hocus-pocus again, only to say, "Arsenic.". From Wordnik.com. [Static] Reference
Of course, there's also limited returns of the hocus-pocus. From Wordnik.com. [The Opposite of Interactivity] Reference
And we need new rules that prevent hocus-pocus on Wall Street. From Wordnik.com. [Frankie Sturm: Buck up, America! Your Best Days Are Still Ahead] Reference
Fens and frogs and peddlers of hocus-pocus and gimcrack amulets!. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
"I fail to see any necessity for all this secrecy and hocus-pocus,". From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
With a hocus-pocus of incantations she brews the magic draught, which. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
Possibly too he had employed a bit more hocus-pocus than was necessary. From Wordnik.com. [The Road Leads On] Reference
Strip away all the mythologising and hocus-pocus and what have you got?. From Wordnik.com. [Be My Enemy]
There were other elements of hocus-pocus in the deficit package as well. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Of The Deal] Reference
MOOS: If you like your hocus-pocus high brow, "Chamber Magic" is for you. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2002] Reference
Call it New Age hocus-pocus if you want, but a deal was made the next day. From Wordnik.com. [An $11 Million Mansion For Bright Young Thing Sloan Lindemann] Reference
With a wave of his hand, Deek dismisses the charges as "all this hocus-pocus.". From Wordnik.com. [Tracking Bin Laden] Reference
It's not hocus-pocus, really (if it were, you wouldn't hear me talking about it). From Wordnik.com. [Lauren Cahn: What Yoga Can Do For Jon Gosselin] Reference
That intellectual dishonesty is rooted in the hocus-pocus of the politics of hope. From Wordnik.com. [The politics of hope are dead. Cameron has everything to gain by being realistic] Reference
We tend to believe magic is evil, strange, or just the hocus-pocus of entertainers. From Wordnik.com. [Spellbound in Brooklyn] Reference
Although U.S. officials profess to be unworried by this hocus-pocus, they should be. From Wordnik.com. [Dollarizing--A Black Hole] Reference
Pettibone handed Sauer some aluminum, and Sauer went ahead with his usual hocus-pocus. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
This contorted, hocus-pocus reasoning is typical of the cynical Clinton campaign style. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Rothman: Hillary Obliges the Right Wing Conspiracy] Reference
You can explain it in terms of the laws of science without bringing in the hocus-pocus. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Are Psychics for Real? - March 6, 2001] Reference
Third, that Penelope had heard them rehearsing their hocus-pocus, like actors rehearsing a play. From Wordnik.com. [The Moonstone] Reference
His deputies just gave us a lot of half-ass/mis-mash/hocus-pocus about weapons of mass destruction. From Wordnik.com. [remains of the day] Reference
I could have found it in me to laugh at the whole miserable hocus-pocus, had I been less indignant. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
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