How To Use Artful In A Sentence

Young people from welfare-dependent single-parent families just aren't artful dodgers ready to graduate into serious crime and a moral vacuum.
Despite the bright blue woodwork, the artfully painted sign, and the Fablon fishes which swim across the display window. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
Today such footballing artful dodgers can collectively become a team's 12th man. Times, Sunday Times
Skirt a purple artichoke with a ruff of silvery artemisia, or mix some ruby-stemmed, fat-leafed rhubarb into a garden bed and you're creating combinations as artful as any in the most ornamental of borders. Valerie Easton: Are Your Vegetables Multi-Tasking??
Another person says: " Bellyful is the character of artful cheat.

In a funky setting, explore artfully presented skewered meats, seafood and rice, perfumed with tamarind, coconut milk, anise, chillies, garlic and ginger.
The fear of being disagreeable is a great bugbear to a girl, as this artful young man well knew, and Rose fell into the trap at once, for Aunt Jane was far from being her model, though she could not help respecting her worth. Rose in Bloom
He goes to Bath, where Sir Walter is now established with his two elder daughters and Elizabeth's companion Mrs Clay, an artful woman with matrimonial designs on Sir Walter.
His golden skin and fair hair were artfully set off by the theatrical costume. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
A historical novel, it is no dutiful trudge - rather an artful waka, rowing fast and with purpose.
Further, Newton's assumption that Wallace is the sole practitioner of the artful defusion of 'high brow' pretension by 'street slang' is an overstatement -- recall Joyce's exhausting of the entire practice in his "Oxen of the Sun" episode of Ulysses where the whole history of the English language is satirized, equally, from its inception to his contemporary cockney. Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1
Independence, admired the Revolution, and then artfully proceeded to depicture the prosperity that Australia would be likely to enjoy, if separated from the mother country, and become a republic. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia
Men love tumbling curls and artfully tousled hair. The Sun
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Meals are presented in an artful yet not overly fussy manner.
Using the tilt of the Sixaxis, you stir the petal of a flower on the breeze, and as you touch other opening blooms on your way, your single pale curl is joined by gradually more colorful petals, eventually assembling the sort of floral cloud seen in artful visions of springtime cherry blossom breezes. Flower's Lawful, Logical Wind
This track combines artfully disjointed melodies with low-fi bass, syncopated rhythms, and all the atmosphere of a David Lynch soundtrack.
In this respect it has been a splendidly artful chancellorship that has lasted the remarkable length that it has due in large part to our gullibility and our apparent willingness to let him get away with it.
It was impossible to associate his remembered almost total uninterest in his surroundings with those chintzy curtains, that hanging basket of trailing ivy and fuchsia over the door of Faith Cottage or the two brightly painted yellow tubs still garish with summer flowers which had been artfully placed one each side of the porch. She Closed Her Eyes
The fantasy of the undecorated house is Tuesday morning as it is actually lived, not as we would like other people to imagine it; it is the idea of energy, of chaos, of motion, of mess well, mess within very circumscribed and aesthetically pleasing limits: children lying in a pile of books, artfully unmade beds, one piece of clothing strewn across a couch. The Rise of the Personal
She arranged the quilting materials as artfully as she could, feeling all the while as though she were fashioning a tribute to Mara. SUDDENLY
He noticed the artful make-up, the elegant hair style.
It is interesting that style. com would describe the collection as "Artfully swagged dresses in checks and ikats, often with bras or bandeaus worn on the outside, looked like the sort of pieces a sapeur's date might wear" when only two models in the show looked anything like a sapeur's date. Shaena Henry: Designers Bring Africa to Runways, Leave Models Behind
Rather, the former TSB branch has been transformed into an airy split-level establishment, with booths cut at artful angles into the rear section.
Michael Zisman, introduced as "the world's only bebop bandoneonist," contributed "Close Encounters," which also artfully blended the three genres, while an excerpt from Mr. D'Rivera's "Sonata for Clarinet and Piano" came off like a waltz in which some bandito had stolen the third beat. Holiday Cheer
Having artfully solved a thorny problem a week ago, the government has now embraced a deal whose terms reek of the bailout it was at such pains to avoid. The Real Cost
The work artfully juxtaposes two complex, quasi-symphonic percussion instruments piano and gamelan ensemble, East and West each making fluent-sounding attempts at adopting the accent of the other, with the piano's unusual tuning giving a quirky tinge to its tones, a slight acridity to would-be octaves. Music review: Post-Classical Ensemble recognizes the work of Lou Harrison
Today such footballing artful dodgers can collectively become a team's 12th man. Times, Sunday Times
Beside this group of, in every sense of the word, 'artless' little country girls, I will now set one -- in the best sense of the word -- 'artful' little country girl, -- a sketch by Gainsborough. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
You don't need any grappa to enjoy the small, even artful, rendition of apple spice cake (served with a little wheel of panna cotta) or the very nice vanilla-gelato affogato.
His own scores reveal him as the most artful of 'artless' composers. "Marse Henry" : an autobiography,
She responded to the long, artful caress with a low, murmurous moan. ALL ABOUT LOVE
He is an able politician, and extremely artful in accomplishing any particular object; it is remarked that he seldom fails.
The ‘welcome’ signs, artfully disposed, make it clear that hospitality is merely an allusive flavor; they are in no wise meant to be taken literally.
Blacks harpoon dugong as they do turtle, but the sport demands greater patience and dexterity, for the dugong is a wary animal and shy, to be approached only with the exercise of artful caution. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
[Be] sly and artful in his behaviour to some, and imperious and cruel to others; being under a kind of necessity to ill-use all the persons of whom he stood in need, when he could not frighten them into compliance, and did not judge it his interest to be useful to them. Ashley Rindsberg: Mr. President, You Are Sick With Self Love
I wouldn't dispute the accuracy, I just thought it was remarkably artful, and would expect nothing less of you, Ari.
Today such footballing artful dodgers can collectively become a team's 12th man. Times, Sunday Times
It's no wonder we cling to marriage and monogamy as it has been so unartfully defined for us. Jenny Block: Sexual Assault Awareness Month: If We Want to Live Honest Lives, We Have to Tell the Truth
Notice the very, very artful wording.
With its clear chicken broth, bits of green onion, finely shredded cabbage and artfully fastened dumplings, said soup is a fine way to begin your feast.
We shower, we smear and spray ourselves with product, we defecate into artfully designed porcelain which takes away the ordure invisibly and more or less odourlessly.
There's plenty of artful writing and thought here, and her wit makes even the excess historical padding and linguistic hair-splitting palatable.
Why is Mrs. Bardell so earnestly entreated not to agitate herself about this warming – pan, unless (as is no doubt the case) it is a mere cover for hidden fire — a mere substitute for some endearing word or promise, agreeably to a preconcerted system of correspondence, artfully contrived by Pickwick with a view to his contemplated desertion, and which I am not in a condition to explain? The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
That said, it is a decidedly artful conversion of the Japanese automaker's M35 series Stagea wagon, a JDM load-lugger it produced from 2001 to 2007. Autoblog
His hair is artfully tousled and a set of perfectly white teeth gleam winningly. Times, Sunday Times
That old pony had a sly, artful eye and a way of shaking his head that was tricky -- and try to catch him loose on the prairie with a bucket of oats as a coaxer! Land of the Burnt Thigh
His delivery is purposefully nervous, artfully irresolute.
He is a developing actor who should stick to playing the Artful Dodger for now, and leave Fagin to his elders and betters.
Readers who learned about this integrity scandal only from The Washington Post today would think that this was just a minor incident designed to correct some misquotations, and that Zinsmeister just handled the situtation "unartfully," to use Tony Snow's word of defense. Archive 2006-05-01
If you did have him in mind for something artful and emotionally resonant, you should know that he is a hard worker. Times, Sunday Times
His guitar may be a crutch but is an awfully artful one, akin to a medieval minstrel's cittern accompanying a sung ballad. Poet, Prophet and Puzzle
Two came recently: the winningly inventive Opening Ceremony, selling pioneering, quirky international fashion — long black Brazilian capes, finely knitted German undershirts — by designers and manufacturers you’ve almost certainly never heard of; and De Vera, a sort of hyper-curated flea market — a Wunderkammer, really — where necklaces made from ancient intaglios are displayed in artfully crammed vitrines alongside antique opium pipes and Victorian mourning jewelry. A Bit of Punctuation
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In 3,000 words or so of journalistic pointillism, McGeough paints his picture of America's predatory cynicism with artful little dabs and daubs of well-placed fact.
Possibly the only speech ever to apologise simultaneously to a wife and to Accenture, it bore all the marks of modern confessional: breast-beating with one eye on the clapometer, references to therapy and Buddhism, and artful reminders of the brilliant career that led him into exotic temptations unknown to us mediocrities. Top stories from Times Online
In this respect it has been a splendidly artful chancellorship that has lasted the remarkable length that it has due in large part to our gullibility and our apparent willingness to let him get away with it.
With an eye for the perfect moment combined with an artful sense of composition, Parke's work's are a stunning evocation of how this country really is.
Thus we may compare to orators those composers who ordinarily take the cantus firmus or subject from others and, weaving over it an artful counter - point, draw various melodic lines from it, which often have something dry or labored, in that they lack a certain grace and naturalness, which is the true spice of melody. MUSICAL GENIUS
Before the invention of the fridge, the track, artfully cut into the contours of the hill, was used by muleteers to haul down snow to be stored in a deep pit, which can still be seen.
So the artfully crafted notion of a ‘public domain’ ringing our jewelled isles shouldn't be too easily disparaged.
Even to suggest that efforts he made to expand the labor force by increasing the domestic birth rate would seem slightly artful.
The central pleasure of a truly satisfying memoir is the narrator's ability to reflect, artfully and persuasively.
Those that knew Levis as a friend, colleague, or teacher sometimes found it puzzling to try to reconcile the good humor, whimsy, and carelessness of the man with the artfulness, erudition, cunning, and darkness of his poetry.
Obama's unartfully expressed ideas about the origins of discontent of those who are struggling in our society were used in the context of how to best reach out and make his (Obama's) value proposition tangible to this group. Hillary And Obama Camps Duke It Out Over Her Alleged "Screw 'Em" Comment
the artful dodger
Blending wood and steel together, artfully, is something to behold. Some Peeves from a Gunsmith
The Polaroid is a social product and ultimately generic, yet as a medium it possesses an aesthetic quality that is chosen by its user, bringing artfulness to the realm of consumer photography.
He has shown himself to be an artful politician.
And Divided We Fall is so artful that by the time it ends we have recognized all of them as human beings and have recognized ourselves in them.
The word for right is dexter, from which derives our word dexterous, meaning ` skillful, clever, or artful. ' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
I agree with you that there is such a thing as an artful collection, but I generally just don't expect a collection to work as a whole esthetical entity I feel the same way about music albums really. On Short Story Collections
He captivated the audience, artfully segueing from songs that made you laugh, to ones that stilled the crowd with their meaningfulness, their power.
Fendi has played artfully with rhinestones, studding the tops for a line of mink co-ordinates.
Bring the weekend to an artful end at the Museum Ludwig. Times, Sunday Times
This past winter I was at work, happily shelving a cartful of books, when I looked up and saw, right in front of me, a nun, dressed in nun's apparel.
A few of the analysts and reporters following the company scratched their heads over the unartful prose. Times, Sunday Times
But on Clinton, they blend artfully.
an artful choice of metaphors
Her brown hair fell in silky waves, the curls artfully framing her face.
Artfully, I must confess, I mentioned that The Herald of the same day had spoken warmly about some slighting remark concerning Holmes made in the House the previous night.
He tried an artful variant on the same trick by announcing a stunning personnel decision on the day before Thanksgiving.
Bill Brown, somewhat of a shyster, and his ear ever cocked to the crowd, was not above taking advantage when opportunity offered, and when it did not offer, to dogmatize artfully. CHAPTER 28
Even to suggest that efforts he made to expand the labor force by increasing the domestic birth rate would seem slightly artful.
They first unsettle our obedience by discovering what they call the iniquity of our governors; and indeed it is not difficult for those who look with a malignant eye on their conduct to perceive such errors, or, if you will, vices, as an artful and censorious temper may dress up into glaring enormities, especially if it deals in those exaggerations which people, who give up their understandings to the views of a party, call true representations. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel
They chose their name artfully—cynically, even—appropriating the term the militants used to signify all the social and political ideals they had invested in America’s unexpected and epochal revolution. Robert Morris
His golden skin and fair hair were artfully set off by the theatrical costume. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
The man-made landscape is penetrated by a series of long, horizontal pergolas made of fragments of brick, concrete, and rusted steel artfully cut and sculpted to evoke the jagged forms of urban graffiti.
To adapt, change, or develop requires incorporating the spirit and artful skills of communication into every step of a plan.
It's painted matte black and has some artful pinstriping and faux leopard upholstery.
His books - "Millennium Cookbook: Extraordinary Vegetarian Cuisine" (Ten Speed Press, 1998, $24.95) and "The Artful Vegan: Fresh Flavors from the Millennium Restaurant" (Ten Speed Press, 2003, $24.95) - offer recipes for elements such as dressings and sauces that can be used to create his fancy fare, or to dress up a simple dish you might make at home. Starbulletin Headlines
Men love tumbling curls and artfully tousled hair. The Sun
Technical difficulties without number also exist: the most literal accuracy, which is indispensable -- the artful inuendoes, the artistical averments, which are necessary, correctly to shape the charge ere it is submitted to the grand jury, may be well conceived to involve many niceties and refinements, on which the case may easily be wrecked. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
A vendor at the corner of Summer Street prepared an entire cartful of team paraphernalia. The King's Best Highway
Being sincere yet artless when talking to females, unlike ‘real’ men who are artful yet insincere, I sometimes approached these females and made an utter fool of myself.
Well, there was no denying that, Cory thought ruefully, assimilating the pale blonde hair, artfully coiffed, the im maculate maquillage, the close fitting dove-coloured trouser suit that showed off her mother's slim, toned figure to the best advantage, and the fur jacket draped casually round her shoulders. Rome's Revenge
I think of, you have a lot of night to come below fair door the government official of beg, their obsequiousness artful tongue should compare money baldicoot brillant and decuple.
Absorbed in the intricacies of artful expression, the young participants seem immune to the heat.
Downstairs, Jonathan Yun artfully handcrafts original sterling silver jewellery like the lion's head wrap ring I now wear and Wong Keng Fuan brings his training in painting, landscape design and mosaics to hand blown glassworks. Cynthia Rosenfeld: Exploring Penang, Malaysia's Colony of Cool
The eugenics movement obviously horrifies this film maker and Mr. Peter Cohen communicates that horror most effectively in this interesting and artful documentary.
A trademark jink and artful cross paved the way for a goal that hauled Everton back into an encounter in which they were 2-0 down.
Kim was given the secret task of artfully slipping the tongue-twisting word 'discombobulate' into conversations with each of the camp mates without any of them twigging there was anything awry. Undefined
Slice the small strawberries and arrange artfully over the top. Times, Sunday Times
A fact-based film that succeeds in being both artful and reverent is a rare thing. History
Even to suggest that efforts he made to expand the labor force by increasing the domestic birth rate would seem slightly artful.
She was really carefully, artfully calibrating not to part with the president" while at the same time being "cognizant" of her role as a mother. CHENEY FAMILY VALUES
Some politicians have realised that there are more artful ways of subduing people than shooting or jailing them.
The connotations are what's important here, though; "nipper" implies a child who's small enough and quick enough to "nip" -- to dart nimbly to and fro, here and there, like the Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist or Shakespeare's Puck. Losts in Translation
It is less grand, has no recognizable actors, and in its own way is much more artful.
His oeuvre is an artful mashup that challenges his audience to question cultural and political assumptions. Smithsonian
My favourite was beef stroganoff, artfully served with rice with vegetables.
By a collusion of timing and chemistry and artful television technique and happy economics, the nation fell into a spirit of coalescence and optimistic self-assertion not seen for a generation.
All night, the artfully sprawling rock lulls the lovers and the fighters into a state of dewy-eyed contentedness.
They were led into this cul-de-sac by the champion of artful deception, Bill Clinton.
We will not enter into the plans of the artful insinuator made to enlist the sympathies of the unsuspecting Englishman, but we must ever feel sure that the cloven foot was well concealed until the last, for Four Months in a Sneak-Box
If you did have him in mind for something artful and emotionally resonant, you should know that he is a hard worker. Times, Sunday Times
Artful Dodgers are on every street corner waiting for poor orphaned waifs.
It drew on the nation's deepest cricketing traditions: the reverseswinging paceman and the artful leggie. Times, Sunday Times
Nevertheless, knowing dialectally precise Ashkenazi Hebrew is useful in sensing the artfulness of much 19th and 20th Hebrew literature. Jewschool
So the artfully crafted notion of a ‘public domain’ ringing our jewelled isles shouldn't be too easily disparaged.
The five-star resort's proud boast is that it has no fewer than 42 swimming pools artfully woven into its maze of rooms, apartments and villas.
It artfully expresses a theme that the boomers will no doubt advance as they retire: agelessness. A State of Mind (The Boomer Blog)
This uncertainty about where the line between divergence and repugnancy lay was the crux of the problem, and the dynamic thrill, artfully illustrated by the author. Spagnola reviews Bilder, The Transatlantic Constitution
I dance for lonely men, men who feel neglected, men who need the feigned affection and artful wiles of the dancer.
You should've made the Corvi clear their garbage before you cleared their fartful atmosphere. The ship who sang
Instead of the elegant simplicity which once characterized this sweet secluded retreat, an air of voluptuousness reigned in every quarter: the paintings, the artfully concealed recesses in which the sofas were placed, the mirrors — all, in short, evinced a taste repugnant to the nicer feelings of true female delicacy — all breathed a fascinating influence, rather calculated to derange the virtuous sensations of the heart, rather than to render them more permanent. Stella of the North, or the Foundling of the Ship
Each sailor or soldier is permitted to attach himself to one of the females: the permission and the caresses of the artful wanton have often lured the temporary parties to marry at Plymouth, more frequently to consummate the nuptials at Sydney: such a marriage manumits the convict. The History of Tasmania , Volume II
This theme is played out through a dozen strangers who become related by artfully contrived coincidence.
Cross stitching is the artfully deprived persons way of making beautiful pictures.
Her foot pointed artfully toward tapering toes.
The Politics of Memory also draws attention to the artfulness of his earlier works.
Then he admitted he may have said what he said unartfully and now he's deeply apologized if he's offended anyone. CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2008
And unlike his two compatriots, Mehrjui's work is mostly devoid of the artful interplay between life and art that is so characteristic of their work.
Now the artful young rogue, while they held their collogue A Bush Christening
It flows into a stylish lounge adjoining a courtyard garden and is artfully lit, with coffered ceilings and designer lamps. Times, Sunday Times
Its good to know someone of your stature is a heartful journalsit! Blitzer: Obama says Kennedy news was 'heartbreaking'
Interestingly, artful Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has been looking pleased with himself these past few days now a referendum is almost certainly off.
We are accustomed to supermarket checkout clerks deciding to count every last penny just as we have unloaded a cartful of groceries, and we dread even entering the Department of Motor Vehicles. The Fly In The Soup
Four wrecked cars were artfully strewn along the roadway, doors buckled, windshields smashed, engines crumpled.
Crisp photographs by Bill Milne capture the bright, boldly colored fabrics used for the author's artful, fun designs.
On the front page of the New York Times for May 15, 2004, you will find one of the most artful photographs from Iraq that I have seen yet.
Google suggests that unartfully is over 30 times less common than inartfully. The Volokh Conspiracy » Inartful:
This past winter I was at work, happily shelving a cartful of books, when I looked up and saw, right in front of me, a nun, dressed in full-on nun apparel.
Dan was sure to get the term slander in there at least three times and was in full concern troll mode, warning NBC of the risks of putting such a volatile personality on a national broadcast, someone that automatically would alienate half the audience, normally a great football talker, Dan simply unbottled and revealed himself as an angry conservative, Dan tried to get Zig to agree with him, Zig artfully declined. The Curly R: A Washington RedskinZ Blog
Fendi has played artfully with rhinestones, studding the tops for a line of mink co-ordinates.
Associated Press Bed Bath&Beyond's co-founders sold a cartful of shares recently. Big Seller at Bed Bath: Shares
A heartful reception was accorded to him.
The script is an artful adaptation of a novel by Rosa Guy.
The tables are covered with brown butcher paper; the silver-tipped lightbulbs are bare; and everything is artfully mismatched, from seats to stemware.
A heartful reception was accorded to him.
one of those artfully staged photographs
In an artful piece of grand-ham acting, he plays the stately lecher Sir Harcourt Courtley as a cross between a demon king, a pantomime dame and the Duke of Wellington.
If it wasn't entirely lacking in artful display, I'd say they'd aged it, to take off the new shine. Toast:
At the Whitney, sculpture must inevitably be crowded - sometimes artfully, sometimes higgledy-piggledy - into a formal museum setting.
My faith in humanity is shattered, O My Brothers, but luckily Mr. BikeSnobNYC, whose artful prose edifies and amuses, suggests I was wrong to have had it in the first place. The Indignity of Living in New York: Big, Fat, Lazy Egos
But that's crazy when you see how Wortmann has artfully grafted a passion for football onto the warp and woof of ordinary existence and made them whole.
In any case, the minister has since, as I noted above, artfully backed away from his previous excitable fulminations.
She observes the wild romantic antics of the other characters from a distance, recalling the artfulness of past romances, regretting the wantonness of "modern" society. RVABlogs
But what he has left us with are precisely the various artful arrangements to be found there, and to become preoccupied with the ethics his work purportedly embodies is at best to get ahead of the critical task of assessing that work and at worst to engage in ungrounded speculation. The Event of Truth
Young people from welfare-dependent single-parent families just aren't artful dodgers ready to graduate into serious crime and a moral vacuum.
I thought you had been above such meanness, or, I promise you, I should never have borrowed your half-guinea, "added Holloway; and he left his unfortunate creditor to reflect upon the new ideas of _meanness_ and _spirit_, which had been thus artfully thrown out. Tales and Novels — Volume 01
As you might imagine, this scenario plays out really well in the printed form; however, when translated into the visual, the artfulness is often muddied by other variables. Kevin's Review: The Ruins « FirstShowing.net
A customer was suddenly approaching her lane with a cartful of items.
People assumed that Jones was merely being artful when he spoke of a possible chink in the England line, centring around Charlie Hodgson and Henry Paul.
Artfully arranged under this symphony of green and white is a pair of equally beautiful, lime-green, soft-leathered, hand-stitched, high-heeled Manolos.
The prime minister dealt with the interviewer's questions in a very artful way.
His eyes stared up at me, his kohl eyeliner artfully smudged, his lips almost parting in a teasing smile.
Cortesi in reply to him, artfully insinuated, that one great ob - jeat of the Spaniards in visiting a country so remote f jrom their 0¥m, was to redress grievances, and to re - lieve tiie oppressed; and having encouraged him to hope lor this interposition in due time, be continued his march to Quiabislam. The history of America
Low pastel lights, fine wines and wooden bowls with artfully scattered fruit adorn the place. Times, Sunday Times
It gives me hope that the American public can recognize and appreciate an artful, intelligent film if and when one is actually offered.
None of this artfulness will surprise readers who remember "The English Patient" 1992. A Floating World
His hair is artfully tousled and a set of perfectly white teeth gleam winningly. Times, Sunday Times
Leader Zach Condon gained wide attention for the artful clangor of Beirut's 2006 debut, which bore the influence of Gypsy music. A Brief Guide to the Northside Festival
Brown's rough ideas and lyrics and transform them into real songs, while Serrano was able to translate Brown's poorly articulated studio suggestions (a running joke was that he referred to acetates as "agitates") into enthralling, artful production. Chicago Reader
The Last Emperor is one of the most artful and enthralling epics ever committed to film.
But if there is anyone likely to endure in New York Democratic politics, it is this artful deal-maker.
The poems 'can seem willed or wilful, unartful or artificial'. The Times Literary Supplement
Beginning in 1994, a multi-disciplinary team — which consisted of T. Allan Comp, a historian and director of the non-profit AMD&ART; Robert Deason, a hydrogeologist; Stacy Levy, a sculptor; AmeriCorps interns; and landscape architect Julie Bargmann, of D.I.R.T. Studio — were tasked to create “a large-scale, artful public space that directly addresses the problems of AMD and much more.” Treating Acid Mine Drainage in Vintondale
But there are other worthy contenders too - deadly fast men such as Holding and Walsh, and artful slow bowlers like Ramadhin and Gibbs.
They distinguish between the two, and they're not referring to celluloid or what something was shot on, they are merely contrasting what they find to be tasteful, artful, or simply thought-provoking, versus what they might label pure saccharin entertainment, intravenous movie Slurpee. Ashley Wren Collins: Seeking Cinematic Sustenance in a Saturated World
To get from original pencil and watercolor drawings to finished rolls of wallpaper took a series of artful steps.
Considering the artful subtlety found elsewhere, this is a let-down, stripping the film of any resonance with the issues at hand.
My perspective is that Nazi propagandists (or any other propagandist whose works shields or justifies wrongdoing for political ends) peddle in dishonesty and are scum - no matter how artfully they do it. “Capitalism: A Love Story” angers and inspires » Scene-Stealers
The central question for an Aristotelian critic or historian is how artfully the rhetor marshaled those means to a particular end, and this is the question that seems central to the inquiries of Browne and Oison.
United and Arsenal both discovered to their cost just how artful and ruthless this double act can be.
There is also an artful contrast of shapes.
Among gypsy women skill in begging implies the possession of every talent which they most esteem, such as artfulness, cool effrontery, and the power of moving pity or provoking generosity by pique or humor. The Gypsies
Or it can be an artful adjunct to your interior design.
What with your artfully juxtaposed angles of pub roof and gasometer girders, and your stark relief foliage echoing the passing clouds in the background. Cricket & All That Gas
Today such footballing artful dodgers can collectively become a team's 12th man. Times, Sunday Times
Considering the artful subtlety found elsewhere, this is a let-down, stripping the film of any resonance with the issues at hand.
But I also feel a little awestruck at the artfulness and audacity of it all.
Not all of them are original; some are not especially artful.
The artful dance form called capoeira is widely known as a cultural expression in Brazil, but it's rapidly becoming all the rage in the capital of Angola.
He walked out of the kitchen area and tranquilly walked through the halls, admiring the paintings and furniture that were artfully placed in different places as decoration.
Best known as the frontman for Pearl Jam's artful bombast, singer Eddie Vedder takes it down a notch—and then some—with the sounds of his coming solo album "Ukulele Songs" May 31. A Summer Sampler
Keene was at no loss to recall inoffensive phrases; in another long speech, full of cajolery sufficiently artful for the occasion, he represented himself as having merely protested against misrepresentations obviously sharpened by malice. Demos
It is a panoramic vision of electronica, centered on the skittery rhythms of drum and bass, artfully blending jazzy tonalities, lush melodic washes, and deep space environments.
Ferdinand sounded the beldame with a thousand artful interrogations, and she answered with such appearance of truth and simplicity, that he concluded his person was quite secure; and, after having been regaled with a dish of eggs and bacon, desired she would conduct him into the chamber where she proposed he should take his repose. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
Hamilton weaves memorable characters and elemental emotions in artful prose with the lofty theme of Western-imposed "education" versus a village's perceived perils of exposure to the developed world. The Camel Bookmobile: Summary and book reviews of The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton.

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