artfulness

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The pleasure here is less in the story than in the Fleischers’ artfulness in rendering such moments as Superman deploying his cape to shield Lois Lane from an oncoming rush of lava.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

Satisfying when it’s not silly, the film has the heart of “Blood Moon” but lacks the artfulness of “My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To,” its vampiric spirit guide.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2023

As one who had seen the play, I experienced, again, all my original amazement at the intricacy and artfulness of Jerome Robbins’ gravity-defying choreography — but this was still “theater.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023

One yearns for subtlety, or just about any artfulness, in “Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really,” Rorschach Theatre’s awful production of Kate Hamill’s heavy-handed script.

From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2022

Trick′sey, Trick′sy, trickish, exhibiting artfulness: pretty, dainty, neat.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various