artifice

Example Sentences

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“Audiences, especially my generation, Gen Z, I think we’re just very tired of the artifice of it all, like the embellishment of very curated media,” Ms. Chang said.

From New York Times

Specifically, Avedon was expert at folding naturalism into artifice and maximizing the volume of both.

From Washington Post

There’s no shame or artifice to appreciating beauty, she argues, but we have a moral imperative to understand its costs.

From New York Times

He had spent decades building a fan base across the country and portraying himself as synonymous with success in business, though that image was as much artifice as fact.

From New York Times

In the 1990s, leery of its own pretensions, U2 remade itself with electronic beats and artifice until it came to a dead end with its 1997 album, “Pop.”

From New York Times