Sentence examples for Absence of artifice from inspiring English sources

The artifice is in the absence of artifice.

Their tight, all-black costumes are supposed to be an absence of artifice, but to my eyes, it's very downtown chic.

Although they certainly wouldn't put it this way, I think their spirits have grown through being nourished by the mere presence of wild things and vistas, and the absence of bustle and artifice.

The rocks here range from baroque flamboyance to minimalist compression; but they are not so amazing as objects that you fail to miss the absence of human imagination or artifice.

It's as though the peerless artificer has had enough of artifice".

Lifelikeness is a huge effort of artifice.

"They are tired of artifice.

Most television involves a level of artifice.

The combination of artifice and ambition is stifling.

"In a world of artifice, her genuineness is refreshing".

On the contrary, pretty much every element smacks of artifice.