Sample Sentences for
artifice
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    There is no reason at this point in our relationship for Andrew to find out I wasn't actually born this good-looking—that a great deal of artifice goes into it.  (source)
    artifice = clever manipulation
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    Frederick's expression is entirely without artifice.†  (source)
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    As long as no one succumbed to its artifice and unsickled it with a cigar.†  (source)
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    They belonged in an age of elaborate artifice and base superstition—when a lucky few dined on cutlets of veal and the majority endured in ignorance.†  (source)
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    prof; it even happened (and more than once) that their exposure came about through the contortionate artifices of fellow Jews.†  (source)
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    This lack of artifice owes as much to the rousing arrangement of songs, which blend seamlessly together, as it does to Echevarri's poignant narrative.†  (source)
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    Emma tasted this love in a discreet, absorbed fashion, maintained it by all the artifices of her tenderness, and trembled a little lest it should be lost later on.†  (source)
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    No pressure of the Bene Gesserit, no trickery or artifice could pry them completely free from Arrakis: the spice was addictive.†  (source)
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    But there are better chairs than this,—mahogany, black walnut, rosewood, spring-seated and damask-cushioned, with varied slopes, and innumerable artifices to make them easy, and obviate the irksomeness of too tame an ease,—a score of such might be at Judge Pyncheon's service.†  (source)
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    But I suppose that's the way with such women: They wouldn't be minxes if they weren't masters of artifice and fraud.†  (source)
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    The parvenu, who had been induced by my artifices in the early part of the evening, to drink deeply, now shuffled, dealt, or played, with a wild nervousness of manner for which his intoxication, I thought, might partially, but could not altogether account.†  (source)
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    Very, very beautiful; no artifice, her hair just turning gray in elegant silvery streaks, no rouge, very pale, huge-eyed—it is extraordinary how large those eyes look and how the lids are veined blue where anyone else would have touched them with a finger-tip of paint; pearls and a few great starlike jewels, heirlooms, in ancient settings, a voice as quiet as a prayer, and as powerful.†  (source)
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    And she stooped to artifices that she knew were unworthy of her, but which she deliberately chose to employ.†  (source)
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