Is she a miracle of resurrection or a mental trick played by the planet?

He decided to play a mental trick on himself to minimize the pressure, imagining that the ninth was the sixth or the seventh.

Was Kathie working some malicious mental trick on my little cousin?

I summoned him, I say, to watch the foolish mental tricks which the poison would play.

It is possible to reconcile this seeming mismatch by a mental trick.

I did mental tricks to keep my mind limber.

"This little mental trick," she added, "covers up their own participation in the deception."

"I have a mental trick with myself where I pretend nobody's bothered," he said.

Again she steadied them, using all the mental tricks she had learned since childhood.

We've both learnt a few mental tricks with the years.