Sentence examples for becomes artful from inspiring English sources

Trimmed with the traditional adornments of theater — music and dance, colorful costumes, or in the case of the last two episodes of "Life and Times," declaimed in the melodramatic style of a creaky stage mystery along the lines of Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" – the artless becomes artful.

My kids have become artful sharers.

In so doing, Kinbote's conspiracy plot becomes an artful "counterpoint," rather than a rival, to Shade's death-obsessed poem.

These disorienting interruptions subtly yet persistently force the reader to begin over and over again, so the book becomes an artful accumulation of fragmented, stalled moments.

Their pictures became more artful, more textured and more beautiful.

Even her way of changing attire and pausing between dances became irritatingly artful.

That will be an emphasis of this training camp, with the defense learning to become more artful at stripping and recovering the ball.

The competing visions are often difficult to evaluate because the Republican candidates — Mr. Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan — have become so artful about obfuscating their plans for Medicare, Medicaid and what they will do to reform the whole system.

At a massive rally in Des Moines Saturday night, Steve Forbes, Alan Keyes and Mr. Bauer signed the huge poster-size pledge with a flourish so theatrical their signatures became more artful than legible.

There's no doubt which is most vivid on screen, and Lean's film is enough to leave you wishing that Dickens had written a novel in which Oliver became the Artful Dodger, and thereafter a leading London criminal who then moves up in the world of business, society and politics.

You become an artful dodger of spit-up.