How To Use Artfulness In A Sentence

  • And so that was the challenge of this record, and the rule that we came up with for ourselves was that the lyrics need to be direct, and you don't want people guessing what the songs are about, you want them to know, but it also needs to have a certain kind of artfulness and poetry to it. Beatweek Magazine
  • Again, the mementos or reminders they offered laid bare the artfulness of history in Shangaan culture. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
  • That it was more or less the result of his "artfulness," and that he was unduly "puffed up" by it, was, in Hooker's characteristic reasoning, equally clear. Clarence
  • Similarly, her wits were sharp and her artfulness consummate, and for all that she was maddeningly gullible. "One could love her for the only sufficient reason that one chose to."
  • These are questions that the Macalester community frequently asks, although rarely with such artfulness.
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  • I may or may not succeed in the attempt to elucidate the "artfulness" of these devices, but I am trying to put Affliction itself in a context that will, I hope, provide the reader with a richer experience when reading this novel. Principles of Literary Criticism
  • Mr. Arkin said he was impressed at the time by Mr. Pope's "artfulness"; he said he wasn't concerned Mr. Pope would be tainted by the bare-knuckled tactics Mr. Spitzer and his staff used in their battles on Wall Street and in Albany. Ex-Spitzer Aide Pope to Join Law Firm
  • Lemon and Reis's awful "artfulness" may be due to their misreading "деланье" as Sher thinks they misread it, or it may be due to their completely missing the meaning of the clause and substituting something bland and kind-of plausible. Languagehat.com: TRANSLATING SHKLOVSKY.
  • The fact that the viewer is bound to be swept up in this sentiment owes less to the artfulness of the documentary itself and more to the charisma of its subject.
  • The self-conscious artfulness that could glint and sparkle in his early novels becomes, in the big books, an embarrassingly grand manner that barely hides a smallness of spirit.
  • 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.
  • But I also feel a little awestruck at the artfulness and audacity of it all.
  • 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
  • None of this artfulness will surprise readers who remember "The English Patient" 1992. A Floating World
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Politics of Memory also draws attention to the artfulness of his earlier works.
  • Nevertheless, knowing dialectally precise Ashkenazi Hebrew is useful in sensing the artfulness of much 19th and 20th Hebrew literature. Jewschool
  • 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.

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