artifice

Example Sentences

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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

“There’s really very little artifice there. She’s an incredible person,” he says.

From Seattle Times

“We are seeing social/political movements that are responding to this environmental concern and drawing much attention to using less artifice and moving to that which is perceived of as real and natural,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times