Sentence examples similar to deceptive artifice from inspiring English sources

Everyone is playing deceptive games, so they must exaggerate to draw attention to the artifice.

Only juridical reasoning, they claimed, was capable of sorting out the individual elements that nature or human art had brought together in a single unit; by establishing sets of distinctions and taxonomies worthy of Borges, legal discourse sought to demonstrate that behind the deceptive immediacy of things, lie the concepts and arguments of what one might call the artifices of the concrete.

But artifice?

Artifice, welcome back!

It is pure artifice.

The artifice!

Commence total artifice.

And deceptive.

But it was artifice.

He eschewed artifice.

Artifice undermines evidence.