Sentence examples for artificial affair from inspiring English sources

The state Transjordan, had been an artificial affair from the outset.

In his short story "Consider Her Ways", the female narrator wakes in hospital to find herself in a matriarchal future, where the men have died out and the process of conception and childbirth is an entirely artificial affair.

Like many another country, it is an artificial affair, a cartographical concept matched on the ground not by a harmonious nation but by peoples who have fought each other for generations, and been fought over by outsiders for just as long.

The African Union (AU), like its predecessor, the Organisation of African Unity, frowns on the idea, since so many countries are artificial affairs where tribal loyalties often trump national ones.Separatist sentiment across the continent has also dwindled as governance has improved, federalism or decentralisation have been more widely accepted and democracy has become more entrenched.

The whole affair feels stilted and artificial.

That the separation of the environment or "nature" from human affairs is artificial is not new and, hence, one wonders why Kareiva's emphasis on the point and Andy's cheerleading of it.

Rather like a lawyer 'arranging' the defence of his client, perhaps to avoid the truth, 'arranging' one's tax affairs via artificial schemes smacks of cynicism.

As might be expected, the whole affair has an artificial look reminiscent of a community theater production on a cardboard set.

Others stem from the policies of former dictator Josef V. Stalin, the fledgling Soviet government's purported specialist on ethnic affairs, who drew artificial boundaries that cut across ethnic groups and exacerbated long-smoldering tensions.

After 1995's The Bends, Radiohead became something else entirely, and OK Computer pointed the way to that, beginning a love affair with circuitry and artificial sonics that rendered their "rock" status completely up for debate.

This contrast in turn makes you realize how constructed and artificial -- how allegorical -- the whole affair feels, and that artificiality, the sense that you're being railroaded (however comfortable your carriage may be), robs the novel of the sense of organically accumulated weight it's supposed to have by the end.