artifice

Example Sentences

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Her looming presence throughout can sometimes distract the reader from the plot, and her self-conscious artifice risks undermining these otherwise convincing characters.

From Los Angeles Times

For a director who is sometimes lazily understood as being uninterested in human emotion, or only able to approach it through ironic artifice, the consistency of his tragic vision is remarkable.

From Salon

It signals “a down-to-earth rejection of fashionable artifice, while still using the power of fashion.”

From New York Times

You can’t just have a character that is always living in an artifice without seeing beneath it a little bit.

From Los Angeles Times

What’s novel about Photoshop’s new capabilities is that they allow for the easy merger of reality and digital artifice and they bring it to a large user base.

From Seattle Times