Sentence examples for artificial qualities of from inspiring English sources
Tasters picked out the artificial qualities of Bassetts ice cream immediately.
I wistfully imagine legends whom I respect, like Richard Hell or Patti Smith, looking on with mild disgust at the amateurish and artificial qualities of most contemporary music and its artists.
The conversation in this scene has the artificial quality of dialogue from a forties Hollywood film.
The photographs have the strange, artificial quality of fairy pictures from the turn of the last century: false documents of fantasy scenes.
The artificial quality of the light illuminating this night scene along with the enveloping sense of threat recalls the elaborately staged and spectral landscapes in the work of the contemporary photographer Gregory Crewdson, whose influences include the filmmakers David Lynch and Steven Spielberg.
He likes, for instance, to judge Biblical characters on their merits as literary characters, and throughout his words avoid the artificial quality of some other contemporary spiritual guides — no doubt due, in part, to the fact that these works did not originate as Biblical illumination.
If you can get past the inherently static, artificial quality of all single-actor plays, Burns' rousing performance proves a rallying call to live out our unused possibilities while there's still time.
They also said they realized that the event had something of an artificial quality to it -- asking everyone to slow down their lives one day of the year.
Too often, though, the scoops of gelato that accompany the desserts had an artificial quality to them.
"Erik Mark Sandberg's bold color choices (fluorescents and neons) have a very manufactured, artificial quality which reinforces his exploration of today's consumer culture, celebrity idolatry and social dysfunction," Chefas explains.
Not much of this sentimental material departs from the standard soap-operatic formulas, and its artificial quality is only underlined by the documentary realism of the setting.
