table turning
IPA: tˈeɪbʌɫtˈɝnɪŋ
noun
- manipulation of a table during a seance; attributed to spirits
table-turning
IPA: tˈeɪbʌɫtˈɝnɪŋ
noun
- The practice, at a séance, of the participants sitting around a table with their hands upon it, waiting for it to rotate and spell out communications from spirits.
- The act of turning the tables; a reversal or revenge.
Examples of "table-turning" in Sentences
- Alternatively, AIA might launch a table-turning takeover bid.
- And now we're asked to accept the table-turning decision of Jason Mesnick, AKA The Bachelor.
- This is a little table-turning on the calls by some No on 8 supporters for a boycott of businesses that gave to the proposition.
- Tranh also has a table-turning encounter with a former employee, fired in disgrace by Tranh himself but who is now much better off than his former boss.
- The second key to understanding Capote's malice involves what Mr. Schultz calls "table-turning," or "pre-emptive abandonment"—hurt them before they hurt you.
- Rage that mutilation of women's bodies and souls are daily fodder for primetime TV, whereas this one instance of table-turning has caused such a huge hissyfit.
- And when Mr. Schultz writes that "the 'ouch' script and the 'table-turning' script were both powerful determinants of Capote's thoughts, feelings, and behavior," the reader might feel that he is both over-complicating and over-simplifying.