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How to use artifice in a sentence

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Fernandez, like many artists before her, engages in a dialogue between artifice and nature.
He alone supplied the deft and necessary touch of self-conscious theatrical artifice.
Magically, unobtrusively, without artifice, they quilt the language into the immediate present.
In turning the genre inside out, Godard creates a world in which real emotions resemble artifice.
Though the Hives open themselves up to style-over-substance gripes, there is real feeling amidst their artifice and formalism.
Naturalism was one aspect of the wider artifice that expressed the known and unknown world through enhanced, idealized reality.
But Murakami's narration moves along calmly and without clutter or artifice.
The aim, rather, was to represent one's aristocratic identity as declaratively as possible through cosmetic artifice.
It's unimaginable what could happen if optimism were reinterpreted as artifice and the pitchmen ended up being punished.
Above all, these works set as their priorities artifice and visual pleasure.
The public meeting has decayed, and what voters see on TV is constructed around artifice and falsehood.
Parker exposes the vanity, artifice and delusion that stand behind these apparently candid books.
The Fast Runner is a rarity among movies in that it seems completely free of artifice.
Salgado prettifies through photographic artifice what ought to be shown in its true colors.
The lights and cameras suggest a stage set, emphasizing the artifice and self-consciousness of representation the work is meant to suggest.
It certainly shouldn't suggest raiding the frozen food bins at the supermarket, where one is served as much artifice as aliment.
When viewed up close on a sample board, only the shingle manufacturer's artifice will be apparent.
Her photographs have the look and feel of mere snapshots, as unmediated realism, unencumbered by artifice and self-conscious construction.
The purpose of art is not to deny artifice but to manage it so well that it appears inevitable.
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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Examples from Classical Literature
She had the pallidly dusky skin of a Eurasian, but, by virtue of nature or artifice, her cheeks wore a peachlike bloom.
But no artifice of the Athapuscow could elude the well-trained eye of the Chippeway.
Isaac was a monogamist, though Jacob, through the artifice of Laban, became a polygamist.
This artifice of a double melting is often had recourse to, and especially in casting the alloys for the specula of telescopes.
This artifice is that which we have noted in 10 as the fundamental artifice of the infinitesimal calculus.
Palamedes, however, was more than a match in artifice for the ithacan king.
Even then, these opportunities were secured by my artifice, without her privity.
But the above examples are arranged either by pleonasm or by some such like artifice.
As to your Proteus, with all his aliases, I think he must be quite a Machiavel in artifice.
There was not an artifice I did not practise to cure myself of this baleful infatuation.
Jeff had been summoned, and Esther met him with no pretence at an artifice of coolness.
This garment hung so loosely on the figure, that its capacious breast was bare, as if disdaining to be warded or concealed by any artifice.
In order to move itself, the salpa has recourse to a singular artifice.
The artifice was too palpable to escape Rotha's observation.
The latter then resorted to artifice, seeing that force was unavailing.
It was the man-to-man Stillman, without artifice and reservations.
How does this particular translator mimic the artfulness of this narrative device in English without giving the impression of artifice?
Yet this was but a shallow artifice, unworthy of my Machiavellian aunt.
What artifice can we then employ to provoke this second permutation?
Shelby's dread of his succeeding in recapturing Eliza and her child, and of course the greater her motive for detaining him by every female artifice.
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