11.   A singer incapable of dishonesty, Ms. Cook, as ever, managed the neat trick of communicating a bruised romanticism untarnished by a cynical thought.

12.   But Brimelow performs a neat trick.

13.   Chalk the neat trick up to the Federal Reserve, which cut interest rates last year as an insurance policy to keep the American economy upright.

14.   From the start, five years ago, the series has pulled off a neat trick.

15.   Instead, it offers the users a tiny on-screen keyboard -- a neat technical trick but a long way from being accepted as a standard computer interface.

16.   Investing in an opportunity is one thing, but actually investing the opportunity itself is a pretty neat trick.

17.   It was a neat trick, and between Rose Marie Bravo and Roberto Menichetti, they seem to have pulled it off.