artifice

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• Limbro was excellent, and I kind of loved how the show made no attempt to justify its obvious artifice.

• Her large-scale photographs spike tired conventions of documentary portraiture with freewheeling artifice and invention.

• Like all of the show’s greatest set pieces, it was a stunning fusion of high artifice and deeply felt emotion.

• It might seem out of place on our busy modern calendars — a day shorn, like Rogers’ Hallmark tree, of artifice and pomp.

• Liza’s authentic warmth is such a refreshing antidote to Halston’s chilly artifice that a full-on dual portrait might have worked better to deepen both characters.

• There is usually something transparent about the artifice required by famous artists trying to remain current.

• Bratis, who trained in Athens, creates pieces of “femininity and pure elegance without artifice.”

• Point of view is inconsistent and Berg employs enough obvious filmic artifice to keep reminding us we are watching dramatization.

• “Faye always tried to advance his own idea of the institution by judicial artifice,” Lecourt told Le Monde.

• The collection is by turn bizarre, hilarious, unpredictable, all of it without a single note of artifice.

• He used every artifice to prevent a collision between the French and Neapolitan troops.