How to Use artifice in a Sentence

artifice

noun
Definition of artificenext
Synonyms for artificenext
  • The whole story was just an artifice to win our sympathy.
  • He spoke without artifice or pretense.
  • There are manic car chases scored to techno-pop songs; gun fu acrobatics that burst with goofy artifice.
    — Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
  • As the actress is dying of lymphoma, the disease would kill her at twenty-nine, she is artfully arranged and fully made up; yet her composure undercuts any sense of artifice.
    — Benjamin Moser, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
  • And in the Brechtian sense, there was a kind of artifice to the piece.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 5 Sep. 2024
  • And the stakes of those ends are, for all the artifice, far more real.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2021
  • You're stripped of all glamour and artifice on much of the show.
    — Jancee Dunn, Redbook, 17 May 2011
  • The fireworks, the razzmatazz, the artifice do not add to the sense of occasion.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 27 May 2017
  • Still, problems like this take the artifice of the game's facade and throw it right in your face.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2020
  • That way, the way of Camp, is not in terms of beauty, but in terms of artifice, of stylization.
    — Scarlett Newman, Teen Vogue, 2 Apr. 2019
  • That way, the way of camp, is not in terms of beauty, but in terms of the degree of artifice, of stylization.
    — Scarlett Newman, Teen Vogue, 3 May 2019
  • The film, with its space-food-like artifice, only seems to be made of nothing at all.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 July 2022
  • Time and again in his filmography, the artifice is the very point.
    — Chris Vognar, Chron, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Leaving aside the fake nails and boob implants, with Cardi the artifice is in the artwork.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Feb. 2019
  • The 2015 ObamaCare repeal votes in the House and Senate were artifice.
    — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 1 July 2017
  • All the artifice and showmanship of singing falls away and the father simply speaks his lines.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Cameron thrives in the artifice of the digital toolbox.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Since turning to books in the wake of unbearable tragedy, Holmes has worked his way back to the artifice of performance.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2023
  • But the difference, of course, is that the suffering on those shows is artifice.
    — Alexander Woo, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2024
  • That, to me, is the reason for all the artifice — the obvious high style of my books and their use of the supernatural.
    — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Her crime, of course, was the obvious artifice, the resorting to cheap tricks.
    — New York Times, 10 May 2021
  • Shift position even slightly, though, and the artifice is plain to see.
    — Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May 2018
  • The thing about Weezer, though, is that there’s no artifice between the listener and Rivers.
    — Ryan Reed, SPIN, 1 June 2023
  • The artifice works for the most part, given the nature of this troubled character.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Without the teen-drama artifice, what will the show become?
    — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 11 June 2024
  • Beneath all the artifice, though, the same old turkey remains.
    — Elizabeth G. Dunn and Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
  • At their best, Pitchfork’s writers had the clear-eyed ability to cut through the artifice, mythmaking and PR around an artist to get to the heart of a record.
    — Hazlitt, 24 Jan. 2024
  • There is no artifice to it, unlike Austin, which is self-consciously weird at this point.
    — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 16 Apr. 2018
  • It was supposed to be a back-to-the-basics recording without the artifice of studio trickery.
    — Tim Riley, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2020
  • His affinity for shooting in black and white was as well-known as his distaste for ageism and artifice.
    — Cady Lang, Time, 5 Sep. 2019

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