How To Use Artifice In A Sentence

The fable is plainly implex, formed rather from the "Odyssey" than the "Iliad;" and many artifices of diversification are employed, with the skill of a man acquainted with the beet models. Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
Blindly, unwittingly, erringly as Dickens often urged them, these ideals mark the whole tendency of his fiction, and they are what endear him to the heart, and will keep him dear to it long after many a cunninger artificer in letters has passed into forgetfulness. Literature and Life (Complete)
I have thought it, for example, not humane to variegate the text of an Anthology with despairing obeli: and occasionally I have covered up an indubitable lacuna by artifices which I trust may pass undetected by the general reader and unreproved by the charitable critic. Preface
Though the Hives open themselves up to style-over-substance gripes, there is real feeling amidst their artifice and formalism.
Crick, and his colleague Leslie Orgel, who originally suggested the idea with him, supposed that the bacteria had originally evolved by natural processes on the home planet, but they could equally, while in the mood for science fiction, have added a touch of nanotechnological artifice to the mix, something like the molecular gearwheel illustrated opposite. Scientists' Responses Solicited

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What ever man contrives or devises is an artifice, a thing of art not of nature, and therefore artificial. The Kempton-Wace Letters
Any seamster or cobbler or tailor or artificer of any trade keeps us shut up in prison for the luxurious and wanton pleasures of the clergy. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
Luke, who delivered a litter of puppies from the family's border collie last September, had passed the entrance test into the navy and had hoped to follow in his father's footsteps and become an artificer.
Khur-om, Phoenician artificer, meaning of the name of, 81-u. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
You may know me as an exactingly subtle novelist who peels away the artifices of European civilization to expose the twitching nerves of the human animal.
Lt Welch has a team of 31, including 27 divers, an administrative assistant, a boatman and two artificers to maintain their equipment.
Peacham, indeed, offered drawing as ‘a gentleman's exercise’ which could also serve ‘for the necessarie use and generall benefite of diuers trades-men and artificers, as namly painters, ioyners, free-masons, cutters, and carvers.’
The women are collective composites of art and artifice, fact and fiction.
Its very simplicity serves as a correction to the elaborate artifice and pretension - most of it hollow - that pervade current dance-making.
Socratico, Cornute, sinu. tune fallere sollers adposita intortos extendit regula mores, et premitur ratione animus vincique laborat artificemque tuo ducit sub pollice vultum. tecum etenim longos memini consumere soles, et tecum primas epulis decerpere noctes. unum opus et requiem pariter disponimus ambo, atque verecunda laxamus seria mensa. non equidem hoc dubites, amborum foedere certo consentire dies et ab uno sidere duci: nostra vel aequali suspendit tempora libra Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
We have been considering the relations of the parts of one tree and a passing partnership between nature and artifice. The Education of a Gardener
It's unimaginable what could happen if optimism were reinterpreted as artifice and the pitchmen ended up being punished.
Medes and Assyrians, Virgil is the most ancient writer, who expressly mentions the soft wool which was combed from the trees of the Seres or Chinese; 62 and this natural error, less marvellous than the truth, was slowly corrected by the knowledge of a valuable insect, the first artificer of the luxury of nations. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
These included cooked channa and cheese cake, table centers and artifices.
The separate pay scales for artificers / technicians and for other branches will disappear.
Despite the artist's efforts to reveal the artifice of traditional media reportage, he employs analogous documentary and camera techniques that similarly objectify them without ever rising to the level of critique.
The story is in how Marshall attracts them, like you, with songs stripped of lyrical and musical artifice and a smoky, kool chick voice.
Neither let this be jestingly conceived, bicause the works of the one be essenciall, the other in imitation or fiction: for everie understanding, knoweth the skill of ech Artificer standeth in that Idea, or fore conceit of the worke, and not in the worke it selfe. Defence of Poesie
He is the artificer of our malleable national soul.
The artificers landed at six a.m.; but, as no materials could be got upon the rock this morning, they were employed in boring trenail holes and in various other operations, and after four hours 'work they returned on board the tender. Records of a Family of Engineers
Bvt before there had bene yet any precise obseruation made of figuratiue speeches, the first learned artificers of language considered that the bewtie and good grace of vtterance rested in no many pointes: and whatsoeuer transgressed those lymits, they counted it for vitious; and thereupon did set downe a manner of regiment in all speech generally to be obserued, consisting in sixe pointes. The Arte of English Poesie
So the matrix is the ideological apparatus, the artifice of reification - the superstructure, seen from the outside to be the evidence of the alienation of man's labour-power.
Everything about the staging reminds us that the central motif is artifice. Times, Sunday Times
Amazingly for Hollywood, she seems almost entirely without artifice.
Here again the icon serves to limn the artifice of time, drawing to this one still point a broad synaxis of the blessed, including some whose souls unbodied have preceded her to Paradise. Scott Cairns: The Dormition of the Mother of God
Fernandez, like many artists before her, engages in a dialogue between artifice and nature.
He alone supplied the deft and necessary touch of self-conscious theatrical artifice.
Bravely and unselfconsciously, this generous actress looks middle-aged, yet with that gangly tomboyish essence that allows her to play young without resorting to cosmetic artifice or girly-girl coyness.
The grant was for land to provide a site for a Trades Hall and Literary Institute at Sydney for the use of artificers and operatives.
But all this fragrant artifice hides an ugly, dirty little secret. Times, Sunday Times
This artifice, a manifestation of the diabolic nature of its author, had too much of the success intended by it, for, although the Governor managed to disculpate himself in the eyes of the more candid-minded Iroquois leaders, yet there were great numbers of the people who could not be disabused, as is usual in such cases, even among civilized races. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
The result of many weeks work, this could not have been achieved without the skill and leadership of Graham Body and it is a credit to him and his team of artificers.
Great conflicts of ideas must be solved by straight and frank methods; they cannot be solved by artifices and makeshifts.
Nowadays, that usually involves some form of human artifice: e.g., sterilization, anovulant or abortifacient pills, and barrier methods. Archive 2006-05-01
Your only claim can be that it is the best possible artifice for the perpetuation of life, or that it is the only perfect, all-sufficient, and all-satisfying arti - fice that man can devise. The Kempton-Wace Letters
Engine room artificers, boatswains, tugboat crews and quartermasters in the harbour master section (navigation branch) of the Sri Lanka Port Authority began an overtime boycott on November 12.
He prefers a less highfalutin term to describe the way he addresses artifice. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile, the artificer of the group examined the explosive.
His theory began with the Andalusian music of cante jondo or "deep song" to the art forms of dance and bullfighting, but certainly his own poetry ripples with this irrational wind, so far from traditional metaphor and sweet artifice. Tamsin Smith: Sketches of Spain
His success as a melodramatist may have been responsible for an occasional, unhelpful reliance on artifice, and for certain antiquated strains in the structure of books such as The Siege of Pleasure and Hangover Square. Giddy & Malevolent
The Fast Runner is a rarity among movies in that it seems completely free of artifice.
A certain number of foreman artificers, electricians, blacksmiths etc, are also required for service with the army.
By his invention, an older and smaller instrument, the chalumeau, of eleven notes, without producible harmonics, was, by an artifice of raising a key to give access to the air column at a certain point, endowed with a harmonic series of eleven notes a twelfth higher. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
We think of the fecundity in artifice with which those of better brain,. no matter how they were handicapped by law, would still outwit those of poorer brain, showing an intensified bitterness born of the class struggle in whose ruthlessness they had been bidden to believe. The Present Challenge to British Imperialism
We hover between worlds - stasis and movement, artifice and reality. The Times Literary Supplement
Human artifices such as fixity and certainty are a big bore to the immortals. Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
Artificer, constructor, factotum, a man who loves impossible bets, he says: ‘How did the idea come to me to construct the greatest globe of the world in the world?’
While under the influence of a stupefactive or anaesthetic, the sorcerer or the person subjected to his artifices, beheld spirits or daemons.
Whatever the cause, this interview held my interest and seemed free from artifice.
There might be some handful of radical formalists who argue that fiction contains no verisimilar power, and a few radical realists who claim that fiction is not artifice, but does anyone take such critics and views seriously? Knocking Wood
So geniune and multitalented, but also projecting just enough artifice to make you question whether that genuineness is truly what it is (know what I mean?). 2006 October : Scrubbles.net
Job wrote his epic poem in a state of society which we should probably term uncultivated; and when Lamech gave utterance to the most ancient and the saddest of human lyrics, the world was in its infancy, and it would appear as if the first artificer in "brass and iron" had only helped to make homicide more easy. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
“Mountain of the Maker,” the artificer par excellence, that is, the blacksmith: it is so called from a legendary shoer of horses and mules, who lived there possibly in the days before The Land of Midian
In 1705 the assembly granted all militia officers the authority to ‘impress any smith… or other artificer, whatsoever, which shall be thought useful for the fixing of arms.’
But not between reality and representation, for everything about a movie is necessarily the product of an artificer, and even ‘on-the-scene’ news reporting achieves only ‘a specious credibility’.
Shenstone describes in his "Thoughts on Gardening," several artifices that he put in practice for increasing the apparent distance of objects, or for lengthening the perspective of an avenue by widening it in the foreground and planting it there with dark-foliaged trees, like yews and firs, "then with trees more and more fady, till they end in the almond-willow or silver osier. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
He was born at Vulsinii, son to Sejus Strabo, a Roman knight; in his early youth, he was a follower of Caius Caesar (grandson of Augustus) and lay then under the contumely of having for hire exposed himself to the constupration of Apicius; a debauchee wealthy and profuse: next by various artifices he so enchanted Tiberius, that he who to all others was dark and unsearchable, became to Sejanus alone destitute of all restraint and caution: nor did he so much accomplish this by any superior efforts of policy (for at his own stratagems he was vanquished by others) as by the rage of the Gods against the Roman State, to which he proved alike destructive when he flourished and when he fell. The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola
Of course, ‘poetic’ is what poets professed to be avoiding in those days and, indeed, throughout history, ‘poetic’ being a form of falsity and artifice peculiar to all preceding generations of poetasters.
Since the concept of the lake's "cota" is a man made artifice covering a nano-second of real time, what the hell was the lake's surface area in 1400AD and what law of nature precludes our return to that level? Lake Level 11-29-04
During the late troubles, the treasures of the state, and even the furniture of the palace, had been alienated or embezzled; the royal banquet was served in pewter or earthenware; and such was the proud poverty of the times, that the absence of gold and jewels was supplied by the paltry artifices of glass and gilt-leather. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The way in which the artist portrays the bean eater reveals, on closer inspection, a high degree of artifice and perhaps even a degree of self-identification on the part of the artist himself.
Upon paying a fine to the king, the charter seems generally to have been readily granted; and when any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such adulterine guilds, as they were called, were not always disfranchised upon that account, but obliged to fine annually to the king for permission to exercise their usurped privileges. X. Book I. Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labour and Stock
But thinking through the poem's artifice is only one way into it, and on the poem's own terms it is not necessarily a better path than the one pointed to by the rhetorical question of the Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music
It is one of those restaurants where gastronomic quality is less important than artifice, ambience, and the general illusion of having a good time.
There are moments in Bach when I would accuse him of nimiety, a pedantic thoroughness, more artifice than art.
Darwin knew he had a problem here, and the original idea to play a trick on the idea of selectionist explanation is a clever piece of legerdemain, that has grown since into a new scientific shibboleth, an artifice of logic, and one that has never been verified properly in practice, and which certainly fails any empirical test as we examine the reality of religion in world history. Darwiniana
There was no guile there, no artifice or coquetry, just that terrible aching beauty. A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
Although it is a very important topic, it is not deep. Anciently the study and the use for reference of Akira Kurosawa emphasize particularly on his artifice of cinematics .
He wanted to flee from the artifice of his fathers creation: he longed to become an autonomous adult, to be a man, not the object of nostalgic pilgrimages to a living shrine not of his making. An Interview With Cynthia Ozick
Chronicles 2: 3,11,12; 8: 2,18; 9: 10,21) + The same Change occurs in Chronicles in the name of Hiram the artificer, which is given as [635] Hiram, Or Huram in (2 Smith's Bible Dictionary
They assumed that we must live by artifice, and they entitled artifice 'Science.' Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
I shall be blind before I am sensible of the decay of my sight, with such kindly artifice do the Fatal Sisters entwist our lives. Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance
Among the industry’s truly protean figures, he ably filmed every type of genre picture imaginable; weathered several epochal shifts in moviemaking technique (example: with the talkie ascendant, he effortlessly transformed from zealous location realist into sound-stage artifice reveler); and helped shape the screen personas of Gable, Cooper, Tracy, and Fairbanks (and swell the bosoms of Shearer, Bow, Bergman, and Velez). Cover to Cover
She nodded in recognition of the name of the legendary artificer of magic items. SHADOW OF A DARK QUEEN: BOOK ONE OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
The fable is plainly implex, formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad; and many artifices of diversification are employed, with the skill of a man acquainted with the best models. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
The fictive guises assumed by these subjects signal the artifice of the ways in which the self is determined, imagined, fashioned, and photographed in an era of colonial domination.
He let army contractors in to browse the bronzes, ormolu-mounted Sèvres vases, and giltwood mirrors that once reflected carnivals of artifice, vanity, and debauch. THE DIAMOND
Language, unlike the colors we see in flowers, is an agreed-upon artifice, and while it can evolve, degeneration through laziness and inattention is not evolution. Colour them turtles faster, Boy…. « Mudpuddle
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Here, then, is the Demi-Ourgos or grand artificer, constituted God autocratical and supreme. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature
The Mad Men world makes a fetish of ornamentation and deifies mysterious artifice; our culture prizes an apathetic informality and rewards the tackiest forms of extroversion. Lesley M. M. Blume: Let's Bring Back: The MAD MEN Edition (PHOTOS, POLL)
You watch her for glitzy artifice, not soul-baring integrity. Times, Sunday Times
But I saw the art and artifice beyond. Times, Sunday Times
But in old Edinburgh all were piled one on the top of another -- the Parliament House within sight of the shops, the great official and the poor artificer under the same roof: and round that historical spot over which St. Giles's crown rose like the standard of the city, the whole community crowded, stalls and booths of every kind encumbering the street, while special pleaders and learned judges picked their steps in their dainty buckled shoes through the mud and refuse of the most crowded noisy market-place, and all the great personages of Edinburgh paced the "plainstanes" close by at certain hours, unheeding either smell or garbage or the resounding cries of the street. Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
The only Service team that takes part in the rally, the artificers entered two pedal cars, and won third place overall.
It's an artifice that domesticates human pain and passion, that alludes to and improvises upon the world that's too much with us, but never lets the real deal come within a country mile. In Search Of A Shadow
The Mad Men world makes a fetish of ornamentation and deifies mysterious artifice; our culture, on the other hand, prizes an almost apathetic informality and rewards the tackiest forms of extroversion. Lesley M. M. Blume: Let's Bring Back: The MAD MEN Edition (PHOTOS, POLL)
But Murakami's narration moves along calmly and without clutter or artifice.
All of this is presented in a style that is both austere and beautiful - plain as can be, yet suffused with an appreciation for artifice as a way of survival.
Seeing as how pop music thrives on various levels of artifice, questions of authenticity aren't typically worth the effort, but it's hard not to hear more formalism than feeling in these rustic songs.
His manner too, in spite of the probable eirenic scope of his work, is that of a special pleader for paganism who uses all the resources of dialectic and rhetoric, all the artifices of wit and sarcasm to make his opponents seem ridiculous. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
Vidya balan casually radiant, without any artifice, totally engaing is the new star in the Bollywood skies. WN.com - Articles related to Celina Jaitley asks people to boycott Bombay Gymkhana
Also, every voting system is a design imposed on the majority — but the more natural the system, the less artifice and the fewer levers involved in soliciting the opinions of the voting citizens, the less problem you have with the fundamental inability of any rulers to create a grand design whereby outcomes are more rational. The Volokh Conspiracy » Could National Juries Alleviate the Problem of Political Ignorance?
Documentary began to be deserted in favour of contrivance and artifice.
In both areas, art is artifice. Times, Sunday Times
With their knowing artifice, the works achieved a stifling kind of perfection.
This is not wild, uncontrolled nature, but greenery as artifice and symbol.
Artifice and ballad preciosity have been cultivated more sedulously in the south, with a learned use of the repetend, archaism of style, and imitation of the quaint mediaeval habit of mind. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
But the present day was so remarkably still that there seemed to the spectators no excuse for the awkwardness of the artificers; and when a large gap in the back of the awning was still visible, from the obstinate refusal of one part of the velaria to ally itself with the rest, the murmurs of discontent were loud and general. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV
Lady (pseudonym, don't you think?) lies the Country of Eligibleness, and within it, the cliffside Land of Love of Admiration ( & Vanity) as well as the "High grounds of Matrimonial," camouflaged by the sheer drop into Land of Coquetry where one encounters "Male Traps: Province of Deception," "Affectation," and "Valley of Mother's Artifice. Suzanne O'Malley: Day 14 of 29: Secrets to the Map of a Women's Heart
Thus thought Dwining, as, returned from his visit to Sir John Ramorny, he added the gold he had received for his various services to the mass of his treasure; and, having gloated over the whole for a minute or two, turned the key on his concealed treasure house, and walked forth on his visits to his patients, yielding the wall to every man whom he met and bowing and doffing his bonnet to the poorest burgher that owned a petty booth, nay, to the artificers who gained their precarious bread by the labour of their welked hands. The Fair Maid of Perth
Pop music has always been about artifice and miming has been part of its landscape since the 1960s. Times, Sunday Times
Where temporal and nomological impossibility is artificed into narrative in the form of hypothetical/counterfactual and metaphysical quirks, logical impossibility is artificed into narrative in the form of pataphysical quirks. Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk
Naturalism was one aspect of the wider artifice that expressed the known and unknown world through enhanced, idealized reality.
Upon paying a fine to the king, the charter feems ge - nerally to have been readily granted; and when any particular clafs of artificers or traders thought proper to a6l as a corporation without a charter, fuch adulterine guilds, as they were called, were not always disfranchifed upon that account, but obliged to fine annually to the king for permiffion to exercife their ufurped pri - vileges *. The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings
In fact, part of the reason I replaced Todorov's term uncanny with creepy in my own model, is that I think talk of the uncanny often carries a sense of angst felt in the face of the truly unknown -- i.e. when we are faced with a strange-and-creepy event so alien we are not even able to decide whether it fits our nomology or not, whether it is artifice or anomaly. Archive 2008-01-01
On this spot I saw abundance of plover; and as I walked my horse along at a foot pace, I observed many of the newly hatched young, around which the old birds anxiously hovered, continually resorting to a well-known artifice; and in the hope of alluring an enemy to a false pursuit, limping tenderly away with a flagging wing, as if they were lame.
This artifice, to which he is impelled by towering ambition, the serjeant seems disposed to connive at -- and the serjeant is a hero, and a great man in his way; "your hero always must be tall, you know. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency
Wenders always wants it both ways: high artifice and incorruptible honesty.
There is no pretense, no artifice, no meaning, other than what you carry out after you've wiped the fiftieth tear of laughter out of your eye.
Above all, these works set as their priorities artifice and visual pleasure.
His theory began with the Andalusian music of cante jondo or "deep song" to the art forms of dance and bullfighting, but certainly his own poetry ripples with this irrational wind, so far from traditional metaphor and sweet artifice. Tamsin Smith: Sketches of Spain
In turning the genre inside out, Godard creates a world in which real emotions resemble artifice.
Here again the icon serves to limn the artifice of time, drawing to this one still point a broad synaxis of the blessed, including some whose souls unbodied have preceded her to Paradise. Scott Cairns: The Dormition of the Mother of God
Verba Poetae non atiud figiiificant» quam fe cu - iufque infulae figuram, calamo, vel rubrica delineafle; quae figurac fubindc ah artifice ligno infculptae». libro ipfi aptatae fuere*. Specimen historico criticum editionum italicarum saeculi XV
Seduction continues to appear to all orthodoxies as malefice and artifice, a black magic for the deviation of all truths, an exaltation of the malicious use of signs, a conspiracy of signs.
Bravely and unselfconsciously, this generous actress looks middle-aged, yet with that gangly tomboyish essence that allows her to play young without resorting to cosmetic artifice or girly-girl coyness.
His remorse is just an artifice to gain sympathy.
A master at work, he commands the screen with an effortless ease and a complete lack of artifice or contrivance.
Achilles 'shield does not paralyze its beholders with a frightful monstrosity, but overawes them with its impression of divine artifice, an emblem of the irresistible destiny of its bearer. Ekphrasis and the Other
The documentary highlights the difference between Warren's real life and the artifice of her stage shows.
The purpose of art is not to deny artifice but to manage it so well that it appears inevitable.
He alone supplied the deft and necessary touch of self-conscious theatrical artifice.
An act of 1646 authorized the constables of every town to require artificers and handicraftsmen "to work by the day for their neighbours in mowing, reaping of corn and inning thereof."
Her photographs have the look and feel of mere snapshots, as unmediated realism, unencumbered by artifice and self-conscious construction.
Bit of (decent!) process, an artifice burglar caught (scum), a couple of half-decent crimints in and a 999″ brekky with some good friends. Welcome ‘Times’ Readers « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Salgado prettifies through photographic artifice what ought to be shown in its true colors.
In every civilization, the skilled artificer has an honored place beside the scribe and the shaman.
The name conjures images of manly men, displaying courage under extreme conditions, rejecting the artifice of language in favor of pure bodily experience.
The autotelic text is a game of symbols, an artifice of ironic detachment, ludic or cynical, embodying an intellectual delight in the game for its own sake or an emotional disaffection in the absence of certainty. Notes on Strange Fiction: Postmodern(ism)
This sort of people have a certain pre-eminence, and more estimation than labourers and the common sort of artificers, and these commonly live wealthily, keep good houses, and travel to get riches. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
The way in which Longus excites the sensual desires of the lovers by means of licentious experiments going always only to the verge of gratification, betrays an abominably hypocritical _raffinement_ [331] which reveals in the most disagreeable manner that the naïveté of this idyllist is a premeditated artifice and he himself nothing but a sophist. Primitive Love and Love-Stories
There is no pretense, no artifice, no meaning, other than what you carry out after you've wiped the fiftieth tear of laughter out of your eye.
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
When we found it was public, we were more concerned to prevent their suspecting that we had any design to conceal it, and openly telling our thoughts of it, we called our artificer, who agreed presently that it was gold; so I proposed that we should all go with the prince to the place where he found it, and if any quantity was to be had, we would lie here some time and see what we could make of it. The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton
The public meeting has decayed, and what voters see on TV is constructed around artifice and falsehood.
He speaks, indeed, without artifice or pretence. Times, Sunday Times
His remorse is just an artifice to gain sympathy.
Like so many Scandinavian harbours, it was an alliance of nature and artifice. IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
Protestant ascendency means nothing less than an influence obtained by virtue, by love, or even by artifice and seduction, -- full as little an influence derived from the means by which ministers have obtained an influence which might be called, without straining, an _ascendency_, in public assemblies in England, that is, by a liberal distribution of places and pensions, and other graces of government. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)
Originally a reaction against realism in theater, ‘theatricalism’ reveals the machinations and artifice of theater.’
And he goes on to ask, ‘what price will human nature pay for these non-human artifices?’
When he sees his opponent beside him, the tonguester, the artifice-skilled, The Frogs
A similar story is told in chapter 4, which contrasts Smith's criticism of apprenticeship with the arguments advanced in the debates leading to the 1814 repeal of the apprenticeship clauses of the Elizabethan statute of artificers.
Letters facioned to ioyne together in sillables like ours, but Ziphres, and shapes of men and of beastes, of heades, and of armes, and artificers tooles, which signified in sondrie wise echone accordyng to his propertie. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc.
On the Representation of John Lucas Commissary of pension - ers, in behalf of Stephen Rogers, a matross and artificer in Capt. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
Where ‘natural’ here stands for the appearance of freedom from conventional rules of artifice; this concept is derived from the second sense of ‘nature’ given above.
When viewed up close on a sample board, only the shingle manufacturer's artifice will be apparent.
Yeat ware not their Letters facioned to ioyne together in sillables like ours, but Ziphres, and shapes of men and of beastes, of heades, and of armes, and artificers tooles, which signified in sondrie wise echone accordyng to his propertie. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
Force, fraud, cunning, and all lubric arts and artifices, even the beguilements of rhetoric, found no favor with him, as modes of warfare or means of victory. Eulogy on Chief-Justice Chase Delivered by William M. Evarts before the Alumni of Dartmouth College, at Hanover
Whether does the tenosynovitis of artifice ministry have other treatment plan besides surgical operation?
For some, the synthetic world of artifice and self-promotion that is popular music appears to have an irresistible lure.
So I thought it best to confess the whole fact; upon which the inquisitress burst out into a loud laugh on the success of her artifice, which she was led to play off upon me from the mere circumstance of, having smelt musk in the room. ' Memoirs of Aaron Burr
And yet to save a trifling outlay compared with the injustice now done, the representative of Her Majesty is compelled to carry about under his skirts a parcel of convictism; to deposit these tokens of imperial interest he is driven to have recourse to artifice, trickery and falsehood. A Source Book of Australian History
The flat glare of the digital camera emphasises the artifice of the film-making process rather than bringing gritty authenticity to the story. Times, Sunday Times
The advertisement was sandwiched between a reader advertising a doctor of physick and one for an "artificer," the latter being a ladies 'hair-dresser. All About Coffee
The grant was for land to provide a site for a Trades Hall and Literary Institute at Sydney for the use of artificers and operatives.
What kind of maudlin artificer do they think God is? El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Andrew
Do you know what your artificers do, even now?
Parker exposes the vanity, artifice and delusion that stand behind these apparently candid books.
For every one of the four horns there was a cleaving "artificer" to beat it down. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
There's also the more self-conscious and deliberate indecision where the anomalous is explicable as an artifice of the nomology of narrative itself, a product of those "laws of reality" that cover the use of extended metaphor in fiction. Archive 2008-01-01
The call comes after a surge in artifice burglaries, where tricksters assume a variety of guises and prey upon people's trust to enter their homes and steal belongings.
The rhetorical "snow job" and artifices that have folks like this "waka waka" person going gaga won't work on the general public. New Poll: Edwards Ties Hillary And Obama In Iowa
From the spacious and convenient berthage of the floating light, the exchange to the artificers was, in this respect, much for the better. Records of a Family of Engineers
By relying on camouflage, the military resort to the same artifice that enables many prey animals to enhance their chances of survival by minimizing detectability.
The public meeting has decayed, and what voters see on TV is constructed around artifice and falsehood.
Parker exposes the vanity, artifice and delusion that stand behind these apparently candid books.
Pretending to faint was merely ( an ) artifice.
Pretending to faint was merely artifice.
Leonardo Bruni, and primarily in Florence, there developed a humanist historiography which went too far in its subservience to antiquity, breaking up the continuities of narrative and theme by its “annalistic” method, encouraging artifice by its restriction of vo - cabulary, and allowing rhetorical affections to carry it to a conventional kind of theatricality which pre - vented either the proper portrayal of men or the gen - uine interpretation of what had happened. HISTORIOGRAPHY
We hover between worlds - stasis and movement, artifice and reality. The Times Literary Supplement
Marsha Hunt and Thulani Davis have no need for this kind of artifice.
Arrayed in what she calls distinctly “dress,” scented, adorned, displayed, she achieves by artifice a sexual differentiation profounder than that of any other vertebrated animal. A Modern Utopia
Philipinas themselves and in Nueva España; and that what they call preaching the gospel is an artifice, and a means of conquering, as Taicosama wrote to the city of Manila. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
Pretending to faint was merely artifice.
Yeat ware not their Letters facioned to ioyne together in sillables like ours, but Ziphres, and shapes of men and of beastes, of heades, and of armes, and artificers tooles, which signified in sondrie wise echone accordyng to his propertie. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
Lt Welch has a team of 31, including 27 divers, an administrative assistant, a boatman and two artificers to maintain their equipment.
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But all this fragrant artifice hides an ugly, dirty little secret. Times, Sunday Times
And, in 1811, M. Poisson applied Laplace's artifices to the case of two spheres acting upon one another in contact, a case to which many of Coulomb's experiments were referrible; and the agreement of the results of theory and observation, thus extricated from Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
The owner looked at my CV, the numerous internships squeezed together with painstaking artifice to make it all fit onto one page, and then looked at me, perched pertly on the chair in front of him, in the new suit and heels my father bought me, with only a hint of neutral makeup, a 21st-century secular martyr. The internship myth | Emily Sands-Bonin
To a thematic purpose, or to force us to revise our nomology, alter our preconcieved notion of the "laws of reality" in order to reconsider whether the anomaly should actually be seen as an artifice? Archive 2008-01-01
All artifice, all human pretensions and deceptions are stripped away, to the extent that the reader has to fight the urge not to avert their eyes, so intimate is what is left.
This artifice is called equivocation or amphibology; it consists in the use of words that have a natural double meaning; it supposes in him who resorts to it the right to conceal the truth, a right superior to that of the tormentor who questions him. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Queen Elizabeth I loved bonbons, and aristocratic Tudor households would pride themselves on presenting elaborate sugar artifices.
This argument can make little appeal to anyone not caught up in the artifices of philosophy.
According to our present knowledge, this machine was the nearest the artificers of antiquity came to inventing a truly mechanical clock.
Everything about the staging reminds us that the central motif is artifice. Times, Sunday Times
Speaking without artifice and with a mellow charm, White also has a plangency that will make you weep, so don't listen (at least, not to the sad parts) while driving. The New Oral Tradition
On being told these terms the artificer stipulated that he should be allowed the use of his horse Svadilfari, and this by the advice of The Age of Fable
The two men gave each other a vigorous, back-thumping Latin abrazo - embrace - a display that usually conveyed more artifice than affection. BLACK EAGLES

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