Sentence examples for artifice used from inspiring English sources

That proposal creates a new felony for any "scheme or artifice" used to defraud shareholders; increases penalties for shredding or other destruction of evidence; offers new protections to corporate whistle-blowers; and prevents executives who lose securities fraud lawsuits from using bankruptcy to escape fraud-related verdicts and settlements.

As it slides between realism and extreme artifice, using cinematic and theatrical devices, "Kuroneko" becomes increasingly, pleasurably difficult to predict.

His love of ritual and artifice was used in his films as an acute reflection on art, and its illusions and delusions.

He posits an insti tute set up in California that uses com puters and such like instruments to see what verbal ploys and rhetorical artifice were used in the past, say by leaders of the fascist states, to benumb the people.

It is just an artifice we used here to make the pattern detection harder.

In a bizarre bit of literary artifice, Fuller uses quotation marks for white dialogue but not black.

I think the artifice of using a man as a woman makes it more of a movie.

The officer who answered the telephone and used artifice was engaged in a general, exploratory search to obtain evidence and leads incriminating anyone of any possible crime.

Most of the time, 3D is used as artifice.

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

Novelists pride themselves on using artifice to get at the truth, but sentimentality is all falseness, emotion over-boiled by grandiosity of expression and served up rank and limp.