Translation of "Taschenspieler" in English

They were all amused and thought him a wonderful conjurer.

He let the coin wander through his fingers like a skilled juggler.

Nixon it a juggler, also called "Tricky Dick".

Other prestidigitators may give you the illusion of sawing a woman in half.

In the blink of an eye, from Paul back to Saul, a first class trickster.

Attributes like "juggler", "funambulist" or "vaulter" speak for themselves.

I should not want President Prodi too, like a clever magician, like a modern European Houdini, to succeed in making the funds at the disposal of all European citizens vanish.

They have given their pension contributions to the various national governments, which have quickly made them vanish like clever magicians.

He's a magician.

He wanted us to believe that he was a conjurer, because then, it would never occur to us that he was in fact a ventriloquist.

Listen, I possess knowledge passed down from the ancient Egyptian conjurers to the prestidigitators of the Dark Ages to the amateur illusionists of today.

I'm a prestidigitator.

404. In the West there have appeared many self-proclaimed yogis, magicians, teachers, hypnotists, and occultists, who make use of phenomena produced by the will.

As coins and watches disappear in the hands of a conjurer, so in the hands of Descartes the visible became invisible, the geometrical, arithmetical.

Driven by the contradictory demands of his situation, and being at the same time, like a juggler, under the necessity of keeping the public gaze on himself, as Napoleon's successor, by springing constant surprises — that is to say, under the necessity of arranging a coup d'etat in miniature every day — Bonaparte throws the whole bourgeois economy into confusion, violates everything that seemed inviolable to the Revolution of 1848, makes some tolerant of revolution and makes others lust for it, and produces anarchy in the name of order, while at the same time stripping the entire state machinery of its halo, profaning it and making it at once loathsome and ridiculous.

It deserves to be remarked that entertainers and conjurers play an important role in all of India and distinguish themselves favorably in comparison to their European colleagues in performing their stunts without any preparations.

This underlines again the exceptional significance of the volition problem for Nietzsche, to enlarge and extrapolate the relevance of this problem with its thematization and hardly more conceivable than here, where the "scientist" and the "juggler" hand over to each other the symmetrical and rich of content opposition, while they realize the clear contrast of the scientific logic of the other!

A not unimportant conquest was also the fact that we parted company with incorrigible sectarians, muddlers, and tricksters who are wont to join every new movement in the beginning only to do everything in their power to compromise and paralyze it.

Juggler Nixon allegedly even speaks with the "moon astronauts" "on the moon" by telephone (Wisnewski, p.144).