Fernandez, like many artists before her, engages in a dialogue between artifice and nature. |
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He alone supplied the deft and necessary touch of self-conscious theatrical artifice. |
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Magically, unobtrusively, without artifice, they quilt the language into the immediate present. |
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In turning the genre inside out, Godard creates a world in which real emotions resemble artifice. |
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Though the Hives open themselves up to style-over-substance gripes, there is real feeling amidst their artifice and formalism. |
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Naturalism was one aspect of the wider artifice that expressed the known and unknown world through enhanced, idealized reality. |
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But Murakami's narration moves along calmly and without clutter or artifice. |
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The aim, rather, was to represent one's aristocratic identity as declaratively as possible through cosmetic artifice. |
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It's unimaginable what could happen if optimism were reinterpreted as artifice and the pitchmen ended up being punished. |
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Above all, these works set as their priorities artifice and visual pleasure. |
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The public meeting has decayed, and what voters see on TV is constructed around artifice and falsehood. |
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Parker exposes the vanity, artifice and delusion that stand behind these apparently candid books. |
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The Fast Runner is a rarity among movies in that it seems completely free of artifice. |
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Salgado prettifies through photographic artifice what ought to be shown in its true colors. |
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The lights and cameras suggest a stage set, emphasizing the artifice and self-consciousness of representation the work is meant to suggest. |
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It certainly shouldn't suggest raiding the frozen food bins at the supermarket, where one is served as much artifice as aliment. |
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When viewed up close on a sample board, only the shingle manufacturer's artifice will be apparent. |
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Her photographs have the look and feel of mere snapshots, as unmediated realism, unencumbered by artifice and self-conscious construction. |
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The purpose of art is not to deny artifice but to manage it so well that it appears inevitable. |
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There is no pretense, no artifice, no meaning, other than what you carry out after you've wiped the fiftieth tear of laughter out of your eye. |
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The story is in how Marshall attracts them, like you, with songs stripped of lyrical and musical artifice and a smoky, kool chick voice. |
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The jury whose votes ultimately decide what's art and what's artifice are, after all, human. |
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For some, the synthetic world of artifice and self-promotion that is popular music appears to have an irresistible lure. |
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Between the extremes of naturalism and overt artifice there are transitional pieces that combine both modes. |
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A master at work, he commands the screen with an effortless ease and a complete lack of artifice or contrivance. |
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Whatever the cause, this interview held my interest and seemed free from artifice. |
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There are moments in Bach when I would accuse him of nimiety, a pedantic thoroughness, more artifice than art. |
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With their knowing artifice, the works achieved a stifling kind of perfection. |
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No such illusion bedevilled the artifice of the opera, the equivalent art form of the late seventeenth century. |
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This easily offended blonde assumes with elegance and a voice without any artifice, the classical sobriety and gleaming pop gimmicks. |
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This is a beautifully poised film that peels away the external artifice of its central character layer by layer, with each plot twist raising as many questions as it answers. |
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It is one of those restaurants where gastronomic quality is less important than artifice, ambience, and the general illusion of having a good time. |
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He had followed the instincts of the wilderness which bred him, straining every nerve and sinew, exhausting every subtlety and artifice to survive. |
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It is thus that, in the midst of her soliloquy, the bibliophage recounts how she became well schooled in the arts of amatory intrigue, courtly artifice, and rhetorical deception. |
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All artifice, all human pretensions and deceptions are stripped away, to the extent that the reader has to fight the urge not to avert their eyes, so intimate is what is left. |
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The explicitness and the extremeness of the artifice is a marker of its authenticity. |
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Amid the layers of artifice and corporate double-speak, here was at least one shiny nugget of honest-to-god truth. |
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His film is a reminder that realism and artifice aren't opponents or opposites but the very systole and diastole of cinematic life. |
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There is usually something transparent about the artifice required by famous artists trying to remain current. |
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The collection is by turn bizarre, hilarious, unpredictable, all of it without a single note of artifice. |
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He is unfailingly polite and contrite, still slightly awkward with the artifice of campaigning after all these years. |
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Of course, these photos also emphasize the artifice that lies behind documentation. |
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Suddenly Salle's harsh artifice seemed heroic, an earnest of authenticity — without ceasing to seem perverse, against the grain. |
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In the museum, on the other hand, we try to let original objects speak for themselves with the least possible artifice. |
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Stehli's Strip is still redolent of the moment, its intimacy and distance, its artifice and uncontrived affect. |
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And yet… there is an inescapable artifice that raises yet another barrier between us and our molecular components. |
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We think there's already a layer of artifice and it's your online personality – the brand Jon Ronson – you're trying to protect. |
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The Labour leader's intentions are somewhat similar: to reconnect with an audience grown weary of artifice and renew his personal brand. |
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There's a point with a song where you can always cheat because it's led by a melody and there are other forms of artifice involved. |
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In the mid 1970s, when the progressive rock movement had taken rock to new heights of complexity and artifice, punk's denial of virtuosity was a radical statement. |
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The demotic self-deprecation barely masks a vast ambition, which is a kind of deception in itself, or an artifice. |
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A vindication suggested the ills that Bolingbroke had attributed to the artifice of revealed religion could be paralleled by those generated by civil society. |
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Dogme is dedicated to ridding cinema of artifice and superficiality. |
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The women are collective composites of art and artifice, fact and fiction. |
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The name conjures images of manly men, displaying courage under extreme conditions, rejecting the artifice of language in favor of pure bodily experience. |
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Point of view is inconsistent and Berg employs enough obvious filmic artifice to keep reminding us we are watching dramatization. |
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The call comes after a surge in artifice burglaries, where tricksters assume a variety of guises and prey upon people's trust to enter their homes and steal belongings. |
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By relying on camouflage, the military resort to the same artifice that enables many prey animals to enhance their chances of survival by minimizing detectability. |
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More than the sum of her swagger, drawl and thousand nervous gestures, she embodies her character so seamlessly that the film's artifice seems to disappear. |
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But above all, the generalization of digital representations encourages a certain confusion between truth and fiction, between nature and artifice, between reality and the representation of what we believe to be reality. |
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As Susan Sontag wrote, camp is artifice and theatricality and flamboyance. |
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Cut out, pruned, swaddled, reworked and mastered, nature forgets its perfection to the benefit of an abstract artifice, which gives way to thought and vacuity. |
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Robert Irwin's well-articulated lectures bespeak his breathtaking clarity and his listeners, led by this language without artifice, open their eyes and are allowed to see into the very core of artistic expression. |
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Fielding the narrator buttonholes the reader repeatedly, airs critical and ethical questions for the reader's delectation, and urbanely discusses the artifice upon which his fiction depends. |
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To respect the intelligence of our customers by providing products and designs that do exactly what we advertise they will, without artifice, deception or puffery. |
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The idea that survival requires impersonation, and that artifice is sometimes necessary, is especially charged for girls who are gender nonconforming. |
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Human beings, whose society and culture are marked by artifice and constraint, can hope only to attune themselves to its mysterious transformations but receive no special favour. |
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This was in part to fictionalise them, but also to remove some of the artifice of his first works. |
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Turner, saw art's role as the communication by artifice of an essential truth that could only be found in nature. |
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And because the proceeding by interrogatories doth in my opinion much dilucidate things... I will make use of that artifice. |
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For all the artifice, a glimmer of integrity shone through. |
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It's as though the peerless artificer has had enough of artifice. |
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It is simply an artifice, an attempt to muddy the waters, an alibi to cover their all-round support for the militarisation of the European Union and the militarisation of space. |
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For example, a yellow chrysanthemum meant you felt slighted, sweet Williams signified artifice, turnips signified charity. |
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We see the frightening white queen kill a rook, which gorily spurts blood, spiking the scene's artifice. |
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It depicts a guild of mastersingers, craftsmen, who substitute technique and artifice for talent and inspiration. |
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There is no trick of the trade which he does not know, no artifice which he does not which he does not habitually practise. |
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Often an artifice is employed to effect the passage from one state to another such as an unexpected inheritance, a miraculous gift, grand reunions, etc. |
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Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric. |
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Fabulators liberate the plot from its mimetic function postulated by Aristotle and rediscover its significance as a necessary element of the literary artifice. |
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