artifice

One thing that defines theater-kid energy in my mind is using artifice to get to an emotional honesty.

She seemed determined to strip her fame of all artifice while still claiming its pleasures.

Such simplicity in design, along with a winking sense of artifice, is partly what helped turn Kent’s bogeyman into an unlikely gay icon.

But, the artifice of the season finale is aggravating, as are the outrageous sums of money involved.

“We’re creating this veneer, sort of putting on this gauze of artifice so there’s a little bit of safety in there where you’re creating and molding the character you wish to portray,” Turner Ross said.