artificiality

Yet Voisard believes people are increasingly tuning into animal livestreams to escape artificiality.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2026

Engines with a 50-50 split between internal combustion and hybrid power - complete with 'overtaking' and 'boost' modes - have led to accusations of artificiality.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026

We can see Houghton’s play in these moments, but then Alloway’s cheeky pop sensibility intervenes, the arch artificiality and ironic tone draining the emotional impact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

While one of the hallmarks of Chekhov’s work is its emotional authenticity, “The Disappear” never quite dispels a feeling of artificiality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

By their obvious artificiality, they call into question the reality of landscape and figures alike.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

In all our anxiety over artificialities, we haven’t thought carefully enough about how to distinguish between rank cheating and the murkier world of performance enhancement.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2022

All of the celebrity tributes and voice-over videos were artificialities, junk, compared to the audience’s acclaim for Serena Williams, the pure roaring waterfalls of applause that thundered down in Arthur Ashe Stadium.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2022

Basketball, on the other hand, has its own rituals and artificialities and weird rituals, and I will sit through pretty much anything basketball-related.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2012

They cannot escape from their overbearing surfaces and artificialities.

From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 27, 2012

It is hard to imagine Tom Smith surrounded by the artificialities of show business, standing in a glitzy showring, loosing horses to run in chaotic sprints, and not think that something precious was being squandered.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand