Sentence examples for artifice to from inspiring English sources

Anyone who uses a "scheme or artifice" to defraud investors would face long prison terms.

Essaydi uses a furiously decorated layer of artifice to suggest the rich, vivid lives it disguises.

Here Guston's drive to eliminate artifice — to get rid of his abundant traditional skills — takes over.

Novelists pride themselves on using artifice to get at the truth, but sentimentality… Clementine, by Sonia Purnell (Viking).

To her credit, Vilmorin understood artifice to mean many things — it wasn't all Moment Suprême dabbed in the décolletage.

It's similar in artifice to the innovative color of artists like Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman and Matthew Barney.

There was too much operatic artifice to Eliasson's work, and not quite enough to Carsten Holler's slides.

Mr. Jackson set about it by using technology and artifice to make technology and artifice seem to disappear.

In a period when minimalist, naturalistic acting is so highly regarded, contrarian Depp embraces maximal artifice to hilarious effect".

Clark doesn't open up her life to make truth easier to find; she depends on artifice to wake us up to the truth buried in her work.

There's a transparent artifice to the staging: the seams and edges of backdrops are often visible, and the children, while stiffly posed, have expressive, frank faces.