Example sentences for: artfully

How can you use “artfully” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He has put his own suffering--as a boy he saw a Nazi kill his mother--into short narratives of self-absorbed Jewish life before the war that are so ominously toneless, artfully simple and repetitious, deceptively compressed in feeling, that the reader, aware of the horror about to descend on these people, feels like screaming but knows he will not be heard.

  • The summit, "with its all-night sessions and constant brushes with disaster, was a setting in which Clinton's penchant for keeping all the balls in the air at once seemed to thrive," said the Post . "Clinton relied on a personal style of charm, persistence, and language that could be artfully imprecise," particularly when Netanyahu sought his assurance that the United States would release Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.

  • … A piece ridicules "fauxhemians"--rich folks who dress up conspicuous consumption "in the artfully tattered guise of the downscale and democratic."

  • It exhibits Indian clothing, tools, and artifacts, with local Micmac Indians demonstrating their use, and colonial ceramics, glassware, and pinewood furniture (often artfully painted to imitate more expensive mahogany or oak).

  • The women are also responsible for one other characteristic of Indian “architecture” — cow-dung patties which are preserved and kept for fuel and artfully shaped into mounds with shapes that differ from region to region, some of them resembling a Buddhist stupa, a Hindu gopuram, or even a Moslem minaret.


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