Sentence examples for artifice selection from inspiring English sources

The effect is closer to documentary than to fiction; gentle artifice — selection, pacing, occasional dialogue — hides overt artifice.

Even so, Capote is right to suggest that any narrative representation of events is an accumulation of "selected" details, and that the process of selection and arrangement through which a writer converts disparate facts into an absorbing story entails an inevitable measure of artifice.

But artifice?

Artifice, welcome back!

It is pure artifice.

The artifice!

Commence total artifice.

Artifice thrills her, including physical artifice: The clothes are excellent.

Everything here is artifice, and artifice is his truth.

The artifice is in the absence of artifice.

But everything was pure artifice.