No artifice, no flash, no -- well, frankly, no star power to speak of.
It seems that in the land of artifice, only a chump would accept sorrow at face value.
These authorial interruptions harden around a consistent theme: the narrator dislikes the conventional artifice of the novel.
In a culture awash in artifice and hype, people value authenticity and have become adept at recognizing it.
Beckett's plays depend on a subtle understanding of the stage as a place of artifice, performance and imprisonment.
Yet the war on artifice inspired by the forces of sincerity seeped into popular culture and commerce anyway.
Each tent spreads over 1, 000 square feet, and inside all is refined artifice.
Only the final aria of "Prima Donna, " the wispy "Les feux d'artifice, " has a certain wistful melodic charm and originality.
As a first step in making our 400 fortunes less absurd-looking, let's resort to the artifice of a ratio scale.
By combining realism and artifice, he got the essential thing right: in a tsunami, the distinction between one object and another dissolves.
The irony is that this too is an illusion, one in which we believe that by deconstructing artifice we are somehow enriched.
Plus, any kind of winter wonderland in Miami smacked of aggressive artifice.
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We will again crave the thrill of illusion, of artifice and fantasy.
Arbus started out in fashion photography in partnership with her husband, Allan Arbus, but by the mid-1950s she had rejected its artifice.
Considered from one perspective therefore, there is sometimes a bewildering sense of rootlessness and polished if not over-polished literary artifice about Mr Ash's work.
"We're moving away from artifice to more natural wreaths, " says Ms. Hviid.
The people who managed them were raised by this artifice to the role of national champions and defenders of the national economic faith.
Despite this artifice, Mr Wilson succeeds in recreating a sense of what Henry VIII was like and how power was deployed in his reign.
However, unbeknown to Plaintiff, what Spartz would later present as a joint venture agreement turned out to be nothing more than an artifice of self-dealing.
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But Judge Jackson held that Microsoft was simply using this innovation argument--a "technological artifice"--in order to extend the Windows monopoly into an Internet browser monopoly.
Though the images are often generic, the lead actors, whose tough-minded theatricality is second nature, convey the fear and the heartbreak behind the glossy artifice.
Each tent is 1, 000 square-feet and inside, all is refined artifice.
Then, investors became concerned that some of Elan's seemingly magical growth was partly the result of accounting artifice--a contention first reported by Forbes (see " Elan's Spin").
Well, they are the ramblings of a romantic poet, but there's a lot of art and artifice and a lot of effort and skill in what I've done.
Nothing about this film escapes the clawing reach of artifice.
The purity of intention behind the artifice is intensely moving.
But few economists believe this idea is anything more than a truism market prices reflect all past information, including that about investors' emotions or a convenient artifice for their models.
For the most part, this risky, seemingly clumsy artifice works.
The metaphorical force of this conceit insisting on the artifice of the social world that frowns on rapture is not hard to grasp, but its frailty unsettles some of the actors.
These attitudes are not simply the cruel inventions of the Kremlin or the imaginary artifice of Vladimir Putin: they are the honestly felt positions of many millions of people.
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