How to Use artifice in a Sentence

artifice

noun

• The whole story was just an artifice to win our sympathy.
• He spoke without artifice or pretense.
• If the filmmakers had tried to use de-aging techniques to allow Williams to play himself, the artifice might have overwhelmed the movie.
  — Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2024
• And in the Brechtian sense, there was a kind of artifice to the piece.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 5 Sep. 2024
• And the stakes of those ends are, for all the artifice, far more real.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2021
• You're stripped of all glamour and artifice on much of the show.
  — Jancee Dunn, Redbook, 17 May 2011
• The fireworks, the razzmatazz, the artifice do not add to the sense of occasion.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 27 May 2017
• Still, problems like this take the artifice of the game's facade and throw it right in your face.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2020
• That way, the way of Camp, is not in terms of beauty, but in terms of artifice, of stylization.
  — Scarlett Newman, Teen Vogue, 2 Apr. 2019
• That way, the way of camp, is not in terms of beauty, but in terms of the degree of artifice, of stylization.
  — Scarlett Newman, Teen Vogue, 3 May 2019
• The film, with its space-food-like artifice, only seems to be made of nothing at all.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 July 2022
• Time and again in his filmography, the artifice is the very point.
  — Chris Vognar, Chron, 19 Apr. 2023
• Leaving aside the fake nails and boob implants, with Cardi the artifice is in the artwork.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Feb. 2019
• The 2015 ObamaCare repeal votes in the House and Senate were artifice.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 1 July 2017
• All the artifice and showmanship of singing falls away and the father simply speaks his lines.
  — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2021
• Cameron thrives in the artifice of the digital toolbox.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2022
• Since turning to books in the wake of unbearable tragedy, Holmes has worked his way back to the artifice of performance.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2023
• But the difference, of course, is that the suffering on those shows is artifice.
  — Alexander Woo, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2024
• That, to me, is the reason for all the artifice — the obvious high style of my books and their use of the supernatural.
  — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2021
• Her crime, of course, was the obvious artifice, the resorting to cheap tricks.
  — New York Times, 10 May 2021
• Shift position even slightly, though, and the artifice is plain to see.
  — Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May 2018
• The thing about Weezer, though, is that there’s no artifice between the listener and Rivers.
  — Ryan Reed, SPIN, 1 June 2023
• The artifice works for the most part, given the nature of this troubled character.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 6 Sep. 2022
• Without the teen-drama artifice, what will the show become?
  — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 11 June 2024
• Beneath all the artifice, though, the same old turkey remains.
  — Elizabeth G. Dunn and Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
• At their best, Pitchfork’s writers had the clear-eyed ability to cut through the artifice, mythmaking and PR around an artist to get to the heart of a record.
  — Hazlitt, 24 Jan. 2024
• There is no artifice to it, unlike Austin, which is self-consciously weird at this point.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 16 Apr. 2018
• It was supposed to be a back-to-the-basics recording without the artifice of studio trickery.
  — Tim Riley, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2020
• His affinity for shooting in black and white was as well-known as his distaste for ageism and artifice.
  — Cady Lang, Time, 5 Sep. 2019
• There are manic car chases scored to techno-pop songs; gun fu acrobatics that burst with goofy artifice.
  — Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024