It seems artificial and insincere.
It seems artificial to apply the levy to tablets but not "regular" computers.
But if we deny, in the extreme case, that Ani and Sanjay share the same belief, expressed by the sentence "salmon are fish", it seems artificial to draw a sharp line anywhere in the progression of divergence, on one side of which they share exactly the same belief about salmon and on the other side of which they have divergent beliefs.
It seems artificial or unnatural to look closely: after all, it runs against the grain of today's very distracted, fast-motion seeing.
Although these scientists may not have a financial or other tangible stake in any particular regulatory proceeding, it seems artificial and formalistic to say that their research is not being conducted, at least in part, so that its results can be used in regulatory proceedings.
Although it would have seemed artificial to Ficino to separate certain areas of philosophizing from each other, nevertheless, it is useful, as a heuristic device, to consider subjects such as ontology separately (see Allen 1982).
It might seem artificial to suppose mixing, but, in fact, it comes with the territory.
Tall, lean, well built, but with a slouch that seemed artificial.
In fact, the suspense over the fate of the ordinance on Wednesday seemed artificial.
But somehow, here, that seemed artificial, so I decided to make the most of the tableaux presented to me.
