artifice

Example Sentences

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There’s no shame or artifice to appreciating beauty, she argues, but we have a moral imperative to understand its costs.

From New York Times

He had spent decades building a fan base across the country and portraying himself as synonymous with success in business, though that image was as much artifice as fact.

From New York Times

In the 1990s, leery of its own pretensions, U2 remade itself with electronic beats and artifice until it came to a dead end with its 1997 album, “Pop.”

From New York Times

Kha uses playful artifice to get at an emotional truth: the fractured layering of identity.

From New York Times

And the metatheatrical devices of “Threepenny” are alive and well: In Leos Carax’s new film, “Annette,” emotion and artifice fit snugly together in a deliberate tension you could trace back to Brecht and Weill.

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