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artfulness
noun
The quality of being artful or of acting in an artful manner.
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Nudity, on the other hand, is a species of confection that is subject to the rules of art and artfulness.
But it also resulted from the very artfulness of the art of movies coming to the fore, thanks, above all, to the lonely audacity of Orson Welles.
Many rhetoricians have artfully and effectively misled their audiences, and Socrates argues somewhat implausibly perhaps that in order to mislead one cannot oneself be misled.[29] An artful speech exhibits its artfulness in its structure, one that—since in the best case it embodies the truth retraces or mirrors the natural divisions of the subject matter itself.
At 79, Sir Peter is demonstrating the artfulness of his own adage with a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" which is a concentrated version of his best work: loyal to the text, the verse, the romance and the humour of the play.
This proved a vote-winning formula, but it did not gain Greece many friends abroad.George Papandreou, by contrast, is highly sensitive to the political realities of the outside world and has displayed a degree of artfulness in conveying those realities to the Greek electorate.
Only regular postwar readings with other radical writers could "take the goosestep out of German" and revive his love of its "utterly supple hardness", its artfulness and the beauty of its subjunctives; rekindling, too, his childhood feeling for the word Labsal, refreshment, as when safely home from some perilous adventure.Again, it was important to say the words aloud.
But the tube 'troupe' also reminded me that life has artfulness built into it (the man's raised voice, his ramped up theatricality).
And what a relief to hear such clear, unforced verse-speaking – to be able to appreciate the words as well as the rhythm – and to hear the soliloquies delivered, as the essential pillars to the structure that they are, without self-conscious artfulness.
There's genuine artfulness and sensitivity in the way its new puzzles are always just beyond your reach; Lavelle shows how spatial ideas can surprise, just like narrative ones.
In its artfulness and eloquence, "Shlemiel the First" is better by far than anything currently on Broadway.
Photography remained an important recording device as the region careened into fascism and war, but its subjectivity and artfulness were especially apparent.
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