artifice

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Some crafty artifice and a heap of negative space aren’t enough to fill the void left by a complete lack of narrative sense.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

The world that shaped Miller’s early years was one of suburban perfection and sheltered artifice, a nostalgic ideal so far removed from reality that it shares a developer with Disney World.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025

At the same time, the shameless artifice would seem to be Mr. Johnson’s intent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

Playing Ingrid-as-Aurora — the heroine of a film that, even its biggest fan admits, is “no ‘Citizen Kane’” — Lopez is shellacked under two layers of diva artifice.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

The invigorating newness of Mussorgsky, whose art, thought Debussy, was 'free from artifice and arid formulae’, was but one of the extraordinarily fruitful imports to the Exposition Universelle.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall