Sentence examples for effort of artifice from inspiring English sources

Lifelikeness is a huge effort of artifice.

The ladies were themselves mostly works of art, with the teensiest touch of artifice to demonstrate their effort.

It's as though the peerless artificer has had enough of artifice".

The bags, their shiny brass fittings and the impeccable white-enamel display cases achieve an intensity of artifice, tactility and visual buzz that Mr. Murakami's higher art efforts don't always muster.

The artifice is in the absence of artifice.

"They are tired of artifice.

Bernhardt was the genius of artifice.

The combination of artifice and ambition is stifling.

"In a world of artifice, her genuineness is refreshing".

On the contrary, pretty much every element smacks of artifice.

Mimicry raises the specter of artifice, the antithesis of sincerity.