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Example sentences for: artifice

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

It takes a while to get oriented in Leigh's movies, which, for all their social-realist trappings, frequently explode into caricature and high-theatrical artifice.
No artifice assists these honeylike waves.
Everybody knows that Paris is the realm of fashion, fashion is the realm of artifice, and both are the realm of women.
Truman must leave the studio/world, Julia Roberts must escape the cameras (ditto Ed in EDTV ), the kids in Pleasantville are stuck in a "TV artifice of life and must break through it in order to get back to their real existences."
The models look magnificent, especially the ones working for Vivienne Westwood and Jean-Paul Gaultier, who have joyfully reveled in creating extreme artifice for both sexes.