artifice
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Isaac Butler makes the case that the film holds a mirror up to its audience by focusing on the nature of performance and artifice.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026
Both are essential to scraping past the layers of artifice Holmes and Evans have built around themselves.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
He told me, with absolutely no artifice, that what he finds more interesting about the championship is whether Hull would face relegation or if Leeds could finish in the top half of the table.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
As a precision-minded songwriter, she bestowed a kind of emotional dignity on everyday characters in hardscrabble circumstances; as a glittering pop persona, she called constant attention to the artifice of her own A-list stardom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Rowan couldn’t be sure if the man believed it, or if it was all artifice.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
But they also find droll humor in the artifices and absurdities that some see in the genre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
“There are a series of artifices that she builds to create this translation of worlds, to help us see what they see.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2023
He was charged with one count of fraud schemes and artifices, one count of theft and two counts of false return in September 2020 and pleaded guilty in the case six months ago.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
These days, the black-and-white artifices of midcentury studio films often seem overly mannered to viewers who didn’t grow up watching them on TV as Harry and Sally did.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2017
This time, along with many other artifices, they brought a flying carpet.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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