At 27, Suchard is the heir apparent to Uri Geller, the self-described Israeli "mystifier" who gained fame bending spoons seemingly only with the power of his mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellen Sterling: The Power of the Mind: Lior Suchard Is a Living, Breathing & Entertaining Example] Reference

Was this the machinery a mystifier was likely to select?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference

And we ` re pleased to welcome mystifier Criss Angel to the program.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2005] Reference

Là-dessus, il tourne les talons, laissant couvert de confusion celui qui voulait le mystifier.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Conversation and Composition] Reference

Houdini, who preferred the description mystifier to magician, appealed to that basic compulsion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kelly Candaele: Harry Houdini's Message from the Grave] Reference

Yet, the first definition is “A modern day mystifier who utilized SKILLS BEYOND THE CATEGORY OF MAGIC.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Criss Angel ‘Phenomenon’ Fight Video] Reference

HAFFENREFFER: A.J., it was here in Bryant Park yesterday that mystifier Criss Angel was locked inside a box in this contraption behind me, airtight box.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2005] Reference

"That I've a headache, and not hungry," said Kittie, and Kat whisked gayly off, laughing to herself, to think how she had intended to be the mystifier, and instead, was the mystified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Girls A Home Story] Reference

An intriguing and mystifying meeting of the minds takes place on live television when famed mentalist Uri Geller and world-renowned mystifier Criss Angel (“Criss Angel Mindfreak”) conduct an intensive search for the next great mentalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jenny’s This Week on TV | the TV addict] Reference

The fickle goddess, continuing her part of mystifier, had opened to his enraptured sight a magic window through which she had shown him a charming vision of possible happiness; but while he was still gazing, she had closed it abruptly in his face, laughing scornfully at his discomfiture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

And, because it is laden with soot, the air of Chicago is a great mystifier and beautifier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your United States Impressions of a first visit] Reference

A little before the Empire, Talleyrand, a great mystifier, tells Berthier that the First Consul wanted to assume the title of king.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Regime, Volume 1] Reference

I will end my account of these amusing adventures with a little anecdote, in which Comte and myself were in turn mystifier and mystified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Robert-Houdin]

But this is far from being the case with the first narrative, in which none but a professed mystifier of the school of Philo could see anything but a plain statement of facts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpretation of Scripture.] Reference

Huneker displays Ibsen, not as a petty mystifier of the women's clubs, but as a literary artist of large skill and exalted passion, and withal a quite human and understandable man.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Prefaces] Reference

My readers ought to have seen the mystifier par excellence, the celebrated physico-ventriloquist of the age, Comte, to form an idea of the cool way in which the public was then treated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Robert-Houdin]

Yet to-day, if a mystifier lack the ingenuity to invent a new and startling stunt, he can safely fall back upon a trick that has been the favorite of pressagents the world over in all ages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé] Reference

More of a complete and utter mystifier, to be perfectly honest - and mystified is what PopWatch's Marc Bernardin was at the time: "The special effects are cool and all, but I have no idea what this movie's about.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference

It is foreign to a mystified condition of mind to realize of the mystifier that the processes of approving a course suggested by circumstance, and of striking out a course from inner impulse, would look the same in the result.    From Wordnik.com.  [Far from the Madding Crowd] Reference

The author, I will grant, was more conscientious than the Bordelais mystifier: he gave a very plain explanation of his tricks; still, he committed the error of supposing his readers possessed of the necessary skill to perform them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Robert-Houdin]

And if we consider that the celebrated Autobiography was the finished, careful work of such a practised 'mystifier,' who can wonder that it presented a web of such intermingled truth and lies that there was no such thing as disentangling it, and pointing out where falsehood ended and truth began?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time] Reference

I took a position at a policy research think-tank in upstate New York, finally wrote a dissertation under the generous and invaluable supervision of Benjamin M. Friedman at Harvard, with my good friend Jeff Fuhrer acting as a patient sounding board and de-mystifier of advanced econometrics, then continued my tour of the Seven Sisters colleges by visiting at Barnard College for a year before moving on to another policy research and teaching position at Wisconsin-Milwaukee.    From Wordnik.com.  [July 2006] Reference

He is a glorious mystifier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. In Two Volumes. Vol. II] Reference

Lady Montfort was not a mystifier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Endymion] Reference

"mystifier" is.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Randi Educational Foundation] Reference