artificiality

Example Sentences

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He does not like the artificiality of the racing with the overtake mode and boost buttons.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

We can see Houghton’s play in these moments, but then Alloway’s cheeky pop sensibility intervenes, the arch artificiality and ironic tone draining the emotional impact.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

While one of the hallmarks of Chekhov’s work is its emotional authenticity, “The Disappear” never quite dispels a feeling of artificiality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Instead, the documentary is a star-studded, rose-colored recollection of better days, a look back at an era that didn’t seem so fraught with deception and morbid artificiality.

From Salon • Oct. 12, 2025

It is not surprising that the history of science is a problematic activity, because science itself constantly claims to escape from its own temporal specificity, its own artificiality.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton