Sentence examples for a bit of artifice from inspiring English sources

Sometimes a bit of artifice can seem more authentic than the real thing.

(In one painting, Mr. Johns actually defines its connect-the-stars form with a bit of threadlike string.) Through artifice it distills uncontrolled galactic energy, making it psychologically manageable and, as a tool for navigation and time-marking, useful.

Onstage, his goal is to be as raw and unstudied as possible, a bit of a rambler, perhaps, but a performer without artifice, in the manner of the class clown.

Frank is always a character for me; that is, he's a piece of artifice made of words.

A bit of intrigue.

A bit of hope.

A bit of decorum.

A bit of both.

A bit of vanity.

"A bit of comedy".

A bit of context.