artful

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As the game flourished, Beijing shifted its tone, calling it an artful representation of Chinese culture, which helped revive investor interest and drive up share prices for videogame companies in China.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

Mr. Kempt, who worked as a criminal lawyer in the Arctic for almost two decades, conjures this forbidding landscape and its residents with artful authority.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

In recent years, India has been promoting the ancient practice of yoga by holding an annual global yoga day and artful graffiti of yoga poses have been painted across cities, including in the capital Delhi.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

Frank Gehry, who died Friday at 96, challenged the notion that buildings needed to behave themselves — creating artful, strange, kinetic combinations of structure, material, form and light, and transforming cities in the process.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

The insider’s artful complexity didn’t much interest Cornwall Capital.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis