Can You Use the Word "Legerdemain" in a Sentence?
I never have. I'd like to - it's a well cool word - but I can't say, hand to heart (main to coeur, perhaps?) that I actually have. But Anita L. Burkam, reviewer for The Horn Book, has.
Re. Questors, she writes:
"That Lennon manages to create three unique worlds with separate cultures and distinct flavors and unify them in one complicated but complete narrative is a feat of legerdemain hard to equal."
And she doesn't stop there.
"Blending magic and sci-fi, Lennon mingles the fantastical amidst the everday with humor and heart."
I think I'm in love.
Cheers, Joan.
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Large as it was, it was very full of documents, but he found a place for this one; and having clasped it carefully, passed it by a kind of solemn legerdemain into the same region as before.
-Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
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