Sentence examples for additional level of artifice from inspiring English sources

But this year there was an additional level of artifice.

Sure, all the "real" artists above have onstage personae, but that extra level of artifice is totally absent.

This gives you an additional level of operational flexibility.

CSEC calls this "an additional level of non-attribution".

Rather, the additional layer of artifice taxes the reader's patience for the main fiction.

What you would be doing in attempting it was a form of gardening and it was important to recognise that there was "a level of artifice" involved.

He lovingly recaptured a version of classic-age Hollywood elegance — a plausible reproduction of a material world and its social relationships, with a barely conspicuous yet severely crafted level of artifice.

So if we do crave more A‑list neighbours – mammalian Clooneys, if you like – then that ambition has to come fitted with a frank acceptance of the level of artifice involved.

They showed an artist reveling in photography's primary substance, light, but maintaining the same level of artifice and even abstraction, and the same awareness of her medium that pervades all her art.

Without a healthy level of artifice, what is society?

On one hand, this may reflect some level of artifice in our laboratory-based system; on the other hand, this finding may offer an important clue regarding the relationship between roadway/traffic exposures and adverse cardiovascular sequelae.