And yet… there is an inescapable artifice that raises yet another barrier between us and our molecular components.
For all the artifice, a glimmer of integrity shone through.
They project aggression with artifice, enacting the line in their then current hit, "Substitute" – "The simple things you see are all complicated".
"We think there's already a layer of artifice and it's your online personality – the brand Jon Ronson – you're trying to protect.
As Susan Sontag wrote, camp is artifice and theatricality and flamboyance.
The Labour leader's intentions are somewhat similar: to reconnect with an audience grown weary of artifice and renew his personal brand.
While Jean-Luc Godard makes a film to explore what he calls an "abstract feeling", Lars Von Trier takes spontaneity to extremes with "Dogme 95", a film manifesto calling for the elimination of artifice: no special effects or dramatic lighting.The directors' idiosyncrasies shine through Mr Tirard's book without swamping the reader with too many points of view.
Mr de Narváez has drawn on his own fortune in his battle to beat Mr Kirchner, plastering Buenos Aires province with bus-sized posters of himself.Mr Kirchner, who heads the Peronist movement, has resorted to artifice.
Mr McCain made his most important appointment having met her just twice.Ironically, given that he first won over so many independents by speaking his mind, the case for Mr McCain comes down to a piece of artifice: vote for him on the assumption that he does not believe a word of what he has been saying.
Some 22 years after "Antea" was last there, it is again New York's turn".Parmigianino's 'Antea': A Beautiful Artifice" is at the Frick Collection from January 29th until April 27th.
And, after nearly two hours delivering accounts of wrongful incarceration and mistreatment, the actors are probably no more inclined to indulge the time-honoured artifice of the curtain call than the audience is to receive it.
