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  • I control my artificial arm with my mind.
  • The design favors natural light over artificial light.
  • The company does not use artificial ingredients.
  • Right, the cold and artificial pleasures of the theme park.   (source)
    artificial = created by humans rather than occurring naturally
  • ...and, finally, perhaps the most important item: an artificial beard, black and chest length, Shari'a friendly—or at least the Taliban version of Shari'a.   (source)
  • Then I just lay curled up on the bed, stroking the silken sheets, watching the sun set over the artificial candy Capitol.   (source)
    artificial = not natural
  • It's warm in the store, and it smells of artificial pine.   (source)
    artificial = created by humans rather than occurring naturally
  • Louie, Frank Tinker, and a handful of other Ofuna veterans stood by the front gate of the Omori POW camp, which sat on an artificial island in Tokyo Bay.   (source)
    artificial = made by humans to use in place of something that is natural
  • Their artificial-gravity system was kaput, and so the two men blacked out.   (source)
    artificial = created by humans rather than occurring naturally
  • I felt intrusive, as reporters often do, and I began to think that a tape machine between two people who were supposedly friends was a foreign object, an artificial ear.   (source)
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  • And when we're turned away from it [the sun], it is night. And if we want to see we have to use artificial lights.   (source)
  • A year later she had a child through the miracle of artificial insemination….   (source)
    artificial = done by human technology rather than occurring naturally
  • Around us gleamed white tile and glass brick; the green, artificial-looking water rocked gently in its shining basin, releasing vague chemical smells and a sense of many pipes and filters; even Finny's voice, trapped in this closed, high-ceilinged room, lost its special resonance and blurred into a general well of noise gathered up toward the ceiling.   (source)
    artificial = not natural
  • So what if she'd experimented with artificial crystal and imagination stimulants?   (source)
    artificial = created by humans rather than occurring naturally
  • It's beautiful in an artificial way, like everything else in this Silver world.   (source)
  • To give their severely traumatized brains a chance to recover without any lasting ill effect, we used the drug phenobarbital to put the babies into an artificial coma.   (source)
    artificial = made by humans rather than occurring naturally
  • His eyelashes were so long and thick they looked artificial.   (source)
    artificial = enhanced by humans rather than occurring naturally
  • They'd been forced to link arms and were naked except for artificial leaves placed in a few choice locations.   (source)
    artificial = made by humans rather than occurring naturally
  • There was a right-side dimple and eyes that appeared green in artificial light and blue in the sun.   (source)
    artificial = created by humans rather than occurring naturally
  • He walked forward, across the hardwood planks that wound between the flower borders and artificial pools lined with shining quartz.   (source)
  • And/or he couldn't/wouldn't talk about it to me, assuming he wanted to, assuming the entire drama wasn't a product of my estrogen poisoning or a symptom of a brain tumor caused by eating so many gallons of artificially colored, high-fructose corn syrup–enhanced plastic food products when I was younger.   (source)
    artificially = made by humans rather than nature
  • If that's the kind of woman Luke prefers—tall, naturally skinny, artificially inflated in the chest area (I'd stake Grandma's life on it), and obsessed with money, more power to him.   (source)
    artificially = done by humans rather than nature
  • They were spaced with perfect precision along the rim of the planet-too huge to be artificial, yet too regular to be natural.   (source)
    artificial = made by man
  • …others explore even remoter possibilities such as focusing the sun's rays through lenses suspended thousands of kilometers away in space, or producing artificial earthquakes and tidal waves by tapping the heat at the earth's center.   (source)
    artificial = created by humans rather than occurring naturally
  • He had spent three days sitting inside the bole of an artificial oak tree, three nights crawling on his belly through the heather, hiding microphones in gorse bushes, burying wires in the soft grey sand.   (source)
    artificial = made by humans to use in place of something that is natural
  • There are splendid artificial limbs now, you'd hardly know there was anything missing.   (source)
    artificial = made by technology to replace something natural
  • For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes.   (source)
    artificial = created rather than natural
  • In the old days there were stirring times, when the Austrian and the Hungarian came up in hordes, and the patriots went out to meet them, men and women, the aged and the children too, and waited their coming on the rocks above the passes, that they might sweep destruction on them with their artificial avalanches.   (source)
    artificial = created by humans rather than occurring naturally
  • ...the people made a rough, but brisk and not unpleasant kind of music, in scraping the snow from the pavement in front of their dwellings, and from the tops of their houses, whence it was mad delight to the boys to see it come plumping down into the road below, and splitting into artificial little snow-storms.   (source)
  • Tariq pushed himself up and swung his artificial left leg around.   (source)
  • He cradled an artificial leg in his arms.   (source)
  • Stucki did as asked, and Pumpkin's enormous frame sidled over to create an artificial paddock wall.   (source)
    artificial = not real
  • The flat-screen TV fastened to the wall; the PC in the corner; the unfinished game of Sudoku on the nightstand, the page marked by a pair of reading glasses; the TV remote; the vial of artificial tears; a tube of steroid cream; a tube of denture glue; a small bottle of pills; and, on the floor, an oyster-colored pair of fuzzy slippers.   (source)
    artificial = created by humans rather than occurring naturally
  • He turned toward the dimly lit terrarium, where the billionaire-in-waiting was hiding somewhere in her artificial forest.   (source)
  • In fact, Thomas Jefferson was so convinced the Bible's true message was hidden that he literally cut up the pages and reedited the book, attempting, in his words, 'to do away with the artificial scaffolding and restore the genuine doctrines.'   (source)
    artificial = made by humans
  • All the colors seem artificial, the pinks too deep, the greens too bright, the yellows painful to the eyes, like the flat round disks of hard candy we can never afford to buy at the tiny sweet shop in District 12.   (source)
    artificial = not natural
  • The Grim Reaper was staring you in the face and the fear of dying with your Wish still in your proverbial pocket, ungranted, led you to rush toward the first Wish you could think of; and you, like so many others, chose the cold and artificial pleasures of the theme park.   (source)
    artificial = created by humans rather than occurring naturally
  • People shoved and bumped by me in the artificially lit dark, hurrying after the trains that rumbled in and out of the intestinal tunnels under Scollay Square.   (source)
    artificially = done by humans rather than nature
  • Followers of Black Imagination would have to be monitored; members of the population addicted to artificial crystal or imagination stimulants rehabilitated; those thriving by corrupt business practices would comply with more ethical modes of professional conduct or be shut down.   (source)
    artificial = created by humans rather than occurring naturally
  • She'd kicked at his shin, not his artificial but his real one, and he'd playfully whacked the back of her head.   (source)
  • There was bound to be something coming along, some artificial fabric that would put silk right out of business, and cotton to a large extent as well.   (source)
  • And as I sat beneath fluorescent cylinders spewing aggressively artificial light, I thought about how we all believed ourselves to be the hero of some personal epic, when in fact we were basically identical organisms colonizing a vast and windowless room that smelled of Lysol and lard.   (source)
    artificial = made by humans -- often to replace something that can be found in nature
  • "Artificial lights," the beast sighed.   (source)
    artificial = created by humans rather than occurring naturally
  • From atop the staircase, all she could see of Tariq were his long legs, the real one and the artificial one, in khaki pants, stretched out on the uncarpeted living-room floor.   (source)
  • The artificial pleasures.   (source)
  • He listened and nodded, his cane on his lap, and tsk'ed when I told him of the man I had spotted selling his artificial leg.   (source)
  • An artificial race with enhanced sight, strength, and speed, Glass Eyes were built for hand-to-hand combat, and they patrolled the Crystal Continuum with orders to annihilate anyone suspected of being an Alyssian.   (source)
  • When it finally turned off, there was Toronto up ahead, an artificial mountain of glass and concrete rising from the flat lakeside plain, all crystals and spires and giant shining slabs and sharp-edged obelisks, floating in an orange-brown haze of smog.   (source)
  • She simply had to stand there, trying to balance herself into the artificial rhythm of her heart and lungs.   (source)
    artificial = not natural
  • The closest she had come to the feeling before was when she had been practicing artificial respiration with Girl Scouts, and the leader, an immensely powerful woman, had been working on Meg, intoning OUT goes the bad air, IN comes the good! while her heavy hands pressed, released, pressed, released.   (source)
  • "It looks smaller from here," he commented, inclining his head at the fast-receding city of artificial lights and concrete blocks stacked around welded threads of steel.   (source)
    artificial = created by humans rather than occurring naturally
  • Explosions of color and light burst like cherry bombs throughout the room, nothing like the artificial light upstairs—these were beautiful, sparkling like fireworks, and every time one burst, it rained down a glittering shimmer onto the dancing crowd below.   (source)
    artificial = made by humans
  • We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium.   (source)
    artificially = done by humans rather than nature
  • You can move the fingers and work and even write with an artificial hand.   (source)
    artificial = made by technology to replace something natural
  • In a few weeks he should go off to an institute for artificial limbs.   (source)
  • Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill.   (source)
    artificial = made by humans to replace something that can be found in nature
  • All children were to be begotten by artificial insemination (artsem, it was called in Newspeak) and brought up in public institutions.   (source)
    artificial = done with technology rather than naturally
  • Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.   (source)
    artificial = done by humans rather than nature
  • At present, when few human beings even have enough to eat, this problem is obviously not urgent, and it might not have become so, even if no artificial processes of destruction had been at work.   (source)
    artificial = created by humans rather than occurring naturally
  • We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important for us. And good boots are scarce.   (source)
    artificial = created by social norms rather than physical necessity
  • Described the artificial maternal circulation installed in every bottle at Metre 112; showed them the reservoir of blood-surrogate, the centrifugal pump that kept the liquid moving over the placenta and drove it through the synthetic lung and waste product filter.   (source)
    artificial = done by humans rather than nature
  • The Bushmen are primitive and naturally so, but we are primitive in an artificial sense, and by virtue of the utmost effort.   (source)
    artificial = created rather than natural
  • Thus we live a closed, hard existence of the utmost superficiality, and rarely does an incident strike out a spark. But then unexpectedly a flame of grievous and terrible yearning flares up. Those are the dangerous moments. They show us that the adjustment is only artificial, that it is not simple rest, but sharpest struggle for rest.   (source)
  • The hypothesis here proved may be described most simply in the following terms: Artificially-induced intelligence deteriorates at a rate of time directly proportional to the quantity of the increase.   (source)
    artificially = done with human technology
  • Yet, I am grateful for the little bit that I here add to the knowledge of the function of the human mind and of the laws governing the artificial increase of human intelligence.   (source)
    artificial = created by humans rather than occurring naturally
  •   And private in his chamber pens himself,
      Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out.
      And makes himself an artificial night.   (source)
    artificial = not natural
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  • She put on an artificial smile for the cameras while berating my performance.
  • The clerk's tone had an artificial politeness.   (source)
    artificial = not genuine
  • We saw nothing real of it; all our impressions of the war were in the false medium of two dimensions—photographs in the papers and magazines, newsreels, posters—or artificially conveyed to us by a voice on the radio, or headlines across the top of a newspaper.   (source)
    artificially = in a manner designed to impress
  • Lupin gave an artificial smile that was more like a grimace, then said, "So… do you accept my offer?"   (source)
    artificial = not genuine
  • She found herself speaking in an artificially sophisticated, ridiculous tone that was nothing like the way she spoke normally.   (source)
    artificially = in a manner designed to impress
  • Her face would distort painfully for a moment, but was then immediately softened by a courteous if artificial smile.   (source)
    artificial = not genuine
  • Factitious, artificial, sham.   (source)
  • "So," I said to Elliot with an artificial smile, "why don't you tell us about Kinghorn Prep?"   (source)
  • Let me tell you something about these dudes: They never took over a company and, as CEO, artificially inflated the value of the stock and cashed out their own shares, bringing the company to the brink of bankruptcy, resulting in twenty thousand people losing their jobs while the CEO builds a home the size of a luxury hotel.   (source)
    artificially = in a false way
  • He looked nervously at Jean, who had managed to force a somewhat artificial smile, and finally recovered his voice.   (source)
    artificial = not genuine
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  • HELEN sits with a scowl, which suddenly clears; she pats the doll, kisses it, wreathes her face in a large artificial smile, and bears the doll to the washstand, where she carefully sits it.   (source)
  • Then from the living-room I heard a sort of choking murmur and part of a laugh, followed by Daisy's voice on a clear artificial note: "I certainly am awfully glad to see you again."   (source)
    artificial = not sincere
  • They were all smiling with bright, artificial smiles.   (source)
  • She turned to Mrs. McKee and the room rang full of her artificial laughter.   (source)
    artificial = not sincere, pretended, or designed to impress
  • He had always been straightforward with me—more so than most of the others—but when he described the white mouse who had been given intelligence, he was as pompous and artificial as the others.   (source)
    artificial = not genuine (trying to impress)
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  • After winning the battle, the Persians brought the captured Roman engineers to Shushtar to design dams, water mills, artificial canals, and an irrigation system, many of which still work today.†   (source)
  • The slow movement of the obviously artificial formation against the starry universe exuded a solemn power.†   (source)
  • Well yeah, that, plus artificial light.†   (source)
  • Stopping, the Count turned to Anna with the smile of the artificially polite.†   (source)
  • Artificial.†   (source)
  • Artificial hearts.†   (source)
  • Therefore, imprinting in an animal's mind the artificial connection that if it does a certain action, say, roll over, it will get a treat can be achieved only by mind-numbing repetition.†   (source)
  • Eric's false smiles, his artificial words, his twisted ideals—they make me want to be sick.†   (source)
  • His fingers looked artificial, pale and puffy from grabbing the Devil's Club.†   (source)
  • On one corner of the desk sat an artificial violet in a pot.†   (source)
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  • She pulled The Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens from her bookshelf and said, "Read the section on artificial incubation and set yourself up tonight.†   (source)
  • But this is stupid because everyone has learning difficulties because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult and also everyone has special needs, like Father, who has to carry a little packet of artificial sweetening tablets around with him to put in his coffee to stophim from getting fat, or Mrs. Peters, who wears a beige-colored hearing aid, or Siobhan, who has glasses so thick that they give you a headache if you borrow them, and none of these people are…†   (source)
  • I bungee-jumped the lobby five or six times, did the waterslide, snowboarded the artificial ski slope, and played virtual-reality laser tag and FBI sharpshooter.†   (source)
  • The misty fug his breath had left on the window sparkled in the orange glare of the streetlamp outside, and the artificial light drained his face of all color, so that he looked ghostly beneath his shock of untidy black hair.†   (source)
  • Linearity is an artificial way of viewing the world.†   (source)
  • Critics say the light is too artificial, and too contemporary for such an old building; but surely the overhead fan is contemporary, too—and not propelled by Mother Nature—and no one complains about the fan.†   (source)
  • In this apartment of artificially maintained Indianness, I wanted to distance myself from everything Indian, everything Jyoti-like.†   (source)
  • But there are only the plastic bags rustling in the branches above them and the dozens of spheres of artificial light glowing in the parking lot beyond.†   (source)
  • I'm wondering if she's worried about the long-term side effects of consuming artificial food coloring.†   (source)
  • She smiled in a bright, artificial way, waiting for Briony to continue.†   (source)
  • The air and light inside them would be artificial, the ozone and oxygen layers of Planet Earth having been totally destroyed.†   (source)
  • All artificial, so it will last forever.†   (source)
  • Like before, she smelled like artificial bananas.†   (source)
  • Artificial.†   (source)
  • Which was preferable, a live Christmas tree or an artificial one?†   (source)
  • She would have to find some way, even if it was an artificial one, of striking a fire that would light the way back to her origin and to Pedro.†   (source)
  • I paid for her with my own money, earned with the stench of theater popcorn in my hair and artificial butter on my arms.†   (source)
  • I watch as Peeta positions his artificial leg.†   (source)
  • Too awkward with her heavy artificial leg.†   (source)
  • Artificial respiration.†   (source)
  • A Washington Post editorial said, "We cannot afford any artificially induced mouse-men."†   (source)
  • As the ship's artificial night closed in they were each grateful to retire to separate cabins and try to rationalize their thoughts.†   (source)
  • The buggers could probably see about the same spectrum of light as human beings, and there was artificial lighting in their ships and ground installations.†   (source)
  • I stared at the two strange faces across the booth, sallow in the artificial lights.†   (source)
  • Like all beef cattle, 534 is the product of artificial insemination.†   (source)
  • It had SIR CAW AIN in fancy lettering on the outside of the door, and I was dreading more armour and whatnot inside, but it was big and cool and plain and smelled of artificial lemons.†   (source)
  • Artificial.†   (source)
  • Each pair of artificial legs costs at least $2,000.†   (source)
  • Then the massive tidal pull of the artificial singularity triggered the thermite charge I had placed on the outer containment sphere.†   (source)
  • Preparations for the fair kept its economy robust, if artificially so.†   (source)
  • What you'd wind up with instead would probably be very stiff and artificial, and artificiality is never noble.†   (source)
  • But this has been an artificial separation, of course.†   (source)
  • Then you have to get some artificial grass so it stays the same color throughout the whole picture, and finally you have to get a wind machine so you can make the grass sway.†   (source)
  • He steers erratically, artificially pumped muscles not fully under his control.†   (source)
  • The 1960s were the heyday of artificial flavors.†   (source)
  • The light is dim and artificial and kept to the same level all the time, but even so, the circadian rhythms win out and a nighttime hush has fallen over the place.†   (source)
  • Bella placed the rose in the same glass they'd once used for storing the artificial roses from Rahel's destroyed hat.†   (source)
  • Moon landings, artificial hearts.†   (source)
  • It had become the centerpiece of an elaborate complex, crisscrossed with artificial canals and connecting bridges.†   (source)
  • Controlling the artificial creature was much easier.†   (source)
  • Through the darkness, smoke, and artificial fog, her pale dress shone out like a beacon.†   (source)
  • Everything looks artificial and kind of gloomy in the dim light.†   (source)
  • Five-gallon buckets dangle off the cart like saddlebags and artificial flowers are fastened to the top of the heap for a home-sweet-home effect.†   (source)
  • She attracted his attention because of her mother-of-pearl whiteness, her happy plump woman's scent, her immense soprano's bosom crowned by an artificial magnolia.†   (source)
  • No, you don't want to talk about that, Glass thought as they turned onto the main B deck corridor, a long, wide passage bordered by panoramic windows on one side and benches tucked between artificial plants on the other.†   (source)
  • There are no artificial lights across there.†   (source)
  • It's always been an artificial interpretation superimposed on reality.†   (source)
  • The next moment, then, we were all relieved to be arguing again—a bit artificially perhaps—about the tokens.†   (source)
  • Breeders have made an artificial selection.†   (source)
  • In the front room were two sofas, an upright piano, and a tiny artificial Christmas tree which had been there, decorated and dust-laden, for two years.†   (source)
  • On a security camera the family could be seen blinking in the sterile artificial light and recovering from their crossing.†   (source)
  • In fact, a geisha leaves a tiny margin of skin bare all around the hairline, causing her makeup to look even more artificial, something like a mask worn in Noh drama.†   (source)
  • Artificial flowers reposed waxily in glass vases.†   (source)
  • To Farmer, the distinction between prevention and treatment was artificial, created, he felt, as an excuse for inaction.†   (source)
  • There was an even longer pause, and the artificial enthusiasm John had put into his voice trailed off.†   (source)
  • The artificial glow of the television screen produces moving shadows on her profile but does not disturb her sleep.†   (source)
  • Yes…… But the scenes on board are somewhat artificial.†   (source)
  • The recent battle had almost killed her, what with the combined agony of thousands beating upon her mind, even though one of Du Vrangr Gata had placed her in an artificial slumber for the duration of the fighting, in an attempt to protect her.†   (source)
  • Later, in reply to a reporter who asked him why he had dogged this artificial scent at such length, Hickock's lawyer snapped.†   (source)
  • A room could be turned into an artificial night.†   (source)
  • Artificial respiration.†   (source)
  • Communication with one's family is a human right; it should not be restricted by the artificial gradations of a prison system.†   (source)
  • "Er, there you are," he says, his voice artificial and mewling.†   (source)
  • Artificial flavor, coloring, citric acid.†   (source)
  • The crab-eating monkeys at the Reston monkey house were placed each in its own cage, under artificial lights, and were fed monkey biscuits and fruit.†   (source)
  • By far his favorite, though, had been a field of artificial turf he'd played on at one away match.†   (source)
  • It was no more than a foot high—one of those artificial falls, common on the chalk streams, made to attract trout.†   (source)
  • (With artificial patience, counting on his fingers) It's simple.†   (source)
  • David Krogh, Smoking: The Artificial Passion.†   (source)
  • All that artificial yumminess is going straight to your hips.†   (source)
  • I spent hours sitting cross-legged on deck with the ship's log on my lap recording the day's events as if I were drifting around in Baudelaire's Artificial Paradise.†   (source)
  • The way Angel sees himself, it's like he's an artificial leg with a person attached.†   (source)
  • Gustavo wore an artificial eye as a result of an accident when he was a young boy.†   (source)
  • It does so by artificially holding constant every variable except the two he wishes to focus on, and then showing how those two co-vary.†   (source)
  • They were huddled so closely together that their breaths mingled as if in some weird kind of artificial respiration: Kate could not tell where her breath left off and Miro's began.†   (source)
  • Artificial insemination?†   (source)
  • Both men were especially careful to watch their artificial horizon; a solid overcast denied them a fixed reference point aloft, and flying over water at night was mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • I put all the artificial flowers I could find from all those show jars around her end to end so she looked set off like a picture.†   (source)
  • The next morning, standing in the driveway beneath a balled-up sun and sky so blue that it looked artificial, Julie wore sunglasses.†   (source)
  • Above the boy's field of vision, Mortenson saw a driver climb into a Datsun pickup truck loaded with artificial limbs and start the engine.†   (source)
  • But now I don't want to return to the artificial "home" created by my parents, my child.†   (source)
  • The artificial glow from the wet rock was suddenly hateful.†   (source)
  • Is there any lighting in that picture, any artificial lights?†   (source)
  • She dressed her in white gloves and black patent-leather shoes and a straw hat with artificial cherries.†   (source)
  • The abrupt stillness seemed alien and artificial, a little insidious.†   (source)
  • Dosed with something that's keeping her in bird form artificially."†   (source)
  • Of course I was, but the smile on my face felt artificial.†   (source)
  • The speaker had artificially waved gray hair.†   (source)
  • "This is 'artificial pneumothorax.'†   (source)
  • He stroked the leather captain's chair and smiled in the cabin's artificial light.†   (source)
  • During lunch, two ladies from the clerk's office assembled a small artificial Christmas tree and placed it at the far rear corner of the courtroom.†   (source)
  • I boarded the shuttle, kicking off past the boundary of my artificially generated gravity—the shuttle was too small to have its own.†   (source)
  • It would have been artificial to grieve, like bending over plastic flowers laid at a gravesite, and expecting to smell their scent.†   (source)
  • His artificial foot in pain, he walked to his kitchen telephone, knowing that a call to his television repairman, for whom he had done several favors, would bring the man running to his emergency.†   (source)
  • Adams found the total effect greatly to his liking, but thought temples to Venus and Bacchus unnecessary, as mankind had "no need of artificial incitements to such amusements."†   (source)
  • An overwhelming scent brought back to me the days when Mother would bring Ron, Stan, and me over to Grandmother's apartment in San Francisco, where we would spend the entire day decorating her artificial Christmas tree.†   (source)
  • The floor was composed of pieces of brick and stone and artificial stone cleverly fitted together.†   (source)
  • Propped on a table crowded with whatnots, artificial flowers, and faded starched crocheted doilies that stand up is a big blue-bordered notice from American Family Publishers that reads in bold print, "THE NIGHT WHEN MRS. KATIE LEE BROWN WON THE WHOLE TEN MILLION DOLLARS!"†   (source)
  • It was artificial evening in the dome.†   (source)
  • He gave a small artificial laugh.†   (source)
  • I can tell that it thinks sucking me dry will give it enough energy to survive outside its artificial womb.†   (source)
  • Most of the rural population had long since been reduced to the life of those ages when artificial light was an exorbitant luxury, and a sunset put an end to human activity.†   (source)
  • Human speech can thus be built up artificially.†   (source)
  • Artificial sunlight reflected on a shallow fountain, sending shimmering bands of gold dancing on the pod's silver surface.†   (source)
  • The very artificiality of the secret meeting invited capture.†   (source)
  • They didn't have electricity here, but they figured out some way to make artificial light!†   (source)
  • Beside the door was a mirror and a wooden table on which was placed a bouquet of artificial flowers.†   (source)
  • I hadn't planned to show you artificial climbing today.†   (source)
  • Pure and perfect and artificial.†   (source)
  • He and Denny had treated each other with artificial politeness ever since their fight at the beach.†   (source)
  • However, some people have created new, artificial treasons, and used them as an excuse for malicious vengeance.†   (source)
  • But the artificial heat and mustard plaster that I had applied warmed his cold body and stimulated his nerves.†   (source)
  • The tiles parted, opening up into a large room filled with flora and lovely artificial sunlight.†   (source)
  • " Again with the mention of that day, Mo's face came to me so vividly, her stomach round with Buddy while Mr. Rhodes wrapped his arm around her waist and Dean carried the groceries inside where her artificial tree glittered.†   (source)
  • A splashdam of stone and wood had been created downriver, artificially backing the water up and covering boulders and other obstructions that made log transport by river difficult.†   (source)
  • A human can "play" a voder, producing artificial speech; a properly programmed computer can do it as fast, as easily, as clearly as you can speak.†   (source)
  • Just about every economist would argue that China should stop artificially cheapening its currency, but getting it to do so would not dramatically increase low-skill manufacturing employment in the U.S. Most analyses show that in response to a rising yuan, American manufacturing companies would more likely shift production to other low-wage countries—like Indonesia, Bangladesh, or Mexico—than to U.S. factories.†   (source)
  • But not sunlight, artificial light.†   (source)
  • I laughed, if in a somewhat artificial manner.†   (source)
  • It was like watching an actor slowly separating himself from his most famous character, like he was shedding an artificial skin.†   (source)
  • Artificiality, a sense of imposed peace.†   (source)
  • Blinking in the brilliant but shadowless artificial sunlight, he glanced at the map panels.†   (source)
  • Oedipa pulled into the lot, got out and stood for a moment in the hot sun and the dead-still air. watching the artificial windstorm overhead toss gauze in five-foot excursions.†   (source)
  • A couple of artificial teeth made of silver slightly marred his good looks, but only when he opened his mouth wide.†   (source)
  • I treated it in an artificial and oddly formal way; the stronghold of the family is put on public view as a structure built each night; on the night before the story opens, the Wall has come down when the most vulnerable member slips, and the act is done for.†   (source)
  • An artificially created island.†   (source)
  • The same trees here looked artificial to me, like the town itself.†   (source)
  • Joe put an artificial joy on his face.†   (source)
  • All men, admittedly, play artificial roles.†   (source)
  • They got to have an artificial one.†   (source)
  • Most of his suits were of artificial fiber, none of them had waistcoats.†   (source)
  • The whole thing is artificial, no one is genuinely interested in it.†   (source)
  • John loitered in front of Woolworth's, staring at the candy display, trying to decide what candy to buy? and buying none, for the store was crowded and he was certain that the salesgirl would never notice him? and before a vender of artificial flowers, and crossed Sixth Avenue where the Automat was, and the parked taxis, and the shops, which he would not look at today, that displayed in their windows dirty postcards and practical jokes.†   (source)
  • On January 24, 1878, in a courageous and learned address—his first major speech on the Senate floor—Lamar rejected the pleas of Mississippi voters and assailed elaborate rationalizations behind the two silver measures as artificial and exaggerated.†   (source)
  • NORFOLK (Steadily, but roused towards anger by MORE'S tone) An artificial quarrel's not a quarrel.†   (source)
  • You substituted an artificial one which—†   (source)
  • You'll find "natural flavor" or "artificial flavor" in just about every list of ingredients.†   (source)
  • It was the first cheap, clean way to make artificial light.†   (source)
  • She thought they might be simulacra, artificial creatures grown in vats of putrid bubbling liquid.†   (source)
  • Deep in 13, they've built an artificial Capitol city block.†   (source)
  • Peeta's artificial leg catches in a knot of creepers and he sprawls forward before I can catch him.†   (source)
  • The TV said: "Until Florida surgeons attached an artificial flipper."†   (source)
  • The bridge led to nothing more than an artificial island in an artificial lake.†   (source)
  • There are no pesticides, no artificial fertilizer, no pollution, and no extra waste.†   (source)
  • Then I saw that Chris's smile was fixed and artificial and actually there was deep fear.†   (source)
  • The methods of proofs are the artificial proofs and the inartificial proofs.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, it is legally considered an artificial flavor and sells at a much lower price.†   (source)
  • There's something artificial about my death.†   (source)
  • Of the artificial proofs there are ethical proofs, emotional proofs and logical proofs.†   (source)
  • Can't understand what people see in all this artificial stimulation.†   (source)
  • A natural flavor is not necessarily healthier or purer than an artificial one.†   (source)
  • We don't have to cling to life artificially, or to death for that matter.†   (source)
  • Because even the job is an artificial limb.†   (source)
  • He passed to Max an artificial hand made of wood.†   (source)
  • Her mom's expression was as still and artificial as a mannequin's.†   (source)
  • Artificial stimulants that lead only to further depression and increased anxiety.†   (source)
  • I was the one who started making artificial roses.†   (source)
  • The user isn't in an artificial setting.†   (source)
  • There were no great odes written to the wonders of artificial insemina-tion-("What?"†   (source)
  • But it felt artificial, more so now because, at six feet and one inch, I towered over my nanny.†   (source)
  • For some odd reason they had artificial grapes strewed out over the ice all around the buckets.†   (source)
  • By their obvious artificiality, they call into question the reality of landscape and figures alike.†   (source)
  • This light was not artificial like the little lamp by my cave.†   (source)
  • One of them actually had an artificial leg, and carried not only a loaded rifle but a cane.†   (source)
  • A man with artificially waved gray hair pointed a long index finger at her.†   (source)
  • "The question is," he said, pressing in, "do you see any artificial lighting?†   (source)
  • And like school, jail was an artificial society, with its own hierarchy and rules.†   (source)
  • There'll be tangerines too, with only a little artificial coloring added.†   (source)
  • "We've got a perfectly good artificial one in the basement.†   (source)
  • The repetitions, the new experiences, the colors on the walls, the same bland artificial light….†   (source)
  • Like merchants, we will peg our sanity to artificial standards-land taken, and days alive.†   (source)
  • We needed superconductors, piezoelectrics and help in large artificial sapphire production.†   (source)
  • He didn't say anything about artificial whatever."†   (source)
  • Whether it was an artificial track, or a natural opening was impossible to tell in the poor light.†   (source)
  • One of them pried out his artificial eye and it was passed among the crowd as a curiosity.†   (source)
  • The artificial pneumothorax had introduced other bacteria into the pleural space around the lung.†   (source)
  • Most of it was then administered by artificial intelligences like Althelkau.†   (source)
  • He'd noticed thatI'd noticed Trudy's awkward and artificial explanation.†   (source)
  • All my memories of her were human memories; an aura of artificiality clung to them.†   (source)
  • It left him with an artificial leg below the knee, and something else that was harder to pin down.†   (source)
  • , Hall drank the liquid, which was syrupy and artificially flavored to taste like orange juice.†   (source)
  • The ceiling was too bright and too high–it was like an artificial sky.†   (source)
  • Tyler said, picking up the artificial sapphire.†   (source)
  • But she was as sensitive about the artificial leg as a peacock about his tail.†   (source)
  • Artificial birds, like the lovely celluloid things of my childhood, wouldn't have been out of place.†   (source)
  • The war was an artificial break in life-as if life could be put off for a time-what nonsense!†   (source)
  • Now what we do is synthesize an artificial Deja Eprouve for the patient.†   (source)
  • Joy was her daughter, a large blonde girl who had an artificial leg.†   (source)
  • In the artificiality of the Domain he had found his perfect setting.†   (source)
  • Cloying and artificial.†   (source)
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