artifice
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Ms. Winger has always been a film actor of luminous transparency; her performance here, by contrast, feels cloaked in artifice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
There is no wall up, no layer of artifice between the musician and the actor plaguing modern biopics.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Still as pragmatic and blunt as ever, the Maddy in “Euphoria”’s final season uses her style not as artifice, but as designer armor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
Underneath the digital artifice, Chaplin’s eyes flash with hot conviction and palpable presence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025
The way that any actor could, with a look, destroy the artifice, the pretense of reality on film.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
But they also find droll humor in the artifices and absurdities that some see in the genre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
He was charged with one count of fraud schemes and artifices, one count of theft and two counts of false return in September 2020 and pleaded guilty in the case six months ago.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
Of course part of human nature is to develop cultural and various kinds of artifices that in many ways shape the aspects of our nature.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2018
But some buttons we regularly rely on to get results are mere artifices — placebos that promote an illusion of control but that in reality do not work.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2016
This time, along with many other artifices, they brought a flying carpet.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vocabulary lists containing artifice
100 SAT Words Beginning with "A"
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The Federalist Papers, No. 1 by Alexander Hamilton
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Divergent
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