word-juggling

So, today your Science in final analysis, has degenerated into a system of clever word-juggling.

The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation J. L. Kennon

So, today your Science in final analysis, has degenerated into a system of clever word-juggling.

The Planet Mars And Its Inhabitants: A Psychic Revelation a Martian 1920

It may indeed be highly finished, the more highly in proportion to its brevity, but the clever word-juggling of such prestidigitators as Poe and Verlaine is perilous.

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907

Circus performers, in the shape of diplomats, who display immense dexterity at word-juggling, and in turn stretch the limits of the Arabic language in their attempts to disingenuously convey their collective and foremost concern for the Arab homeland, in over twenty different combinations, to the Arab people.

Dissident Voice 2009

Circus performers, in the shape of diplomats, who display immense dexterity at word-juggling, and in turn stretch the limits of the Arabic language in their attempts to disingenuously convey their collective and foremost concern for the Arab homeland, in over twenty different combinations, to the Arab people.

unknown title 2009

American Trash Republic and a whole world of hard-working, beat-rocking, word-juggling performers.

Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2009

Desire to reach a solid groundwork of fact, hearty aversion to mere word-juggling, and to effeminate sentimentalism, respect for science and indifference to, if not contempt for, poetry, resolution to approve no laws or institutions which could not be supported on plain grounds of utility, and to accept no theory which could not be firmly based on verifiable experience, imply moral and intellectual tendencies, in which we may perhaps say that the Utilitarians represent some of the strongest and most valuable qualities of the national character.

The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Leslie Stephen 1868