How To Use Artfully In A Sentence
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Despite the bright blue woodwork, the artfully painted sign, and the Fablon fishes which swim across the display window.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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In a funky setting, explore artfully presented skewered meats, seafood and rice, perfumed with tamarind, coconut milk, anise, chillies, garlic and ginger.
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His golden skin and fair hair were artfully set off by the theatrical costume.
A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
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Independence, admired the Revolution, and then artfully proceeded to depicture the prosperity that Australia would be likely to enjoy, if separated from the mother country, and become a republic.
The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia
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Men love tumbling curls and artfully tousled hair.
The Sun
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People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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This track combines artfully disjointed melodies with low-fi bass, syncopated rhythms, and all the atmosphere of a David Lynch soundtrack.
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It was impossible to associate his remembered almost total uninterest in his surroundings with those chintzy curtains, that hanging basket of trailing ivy and fuchsia over the door of Faith Cottage or the two brightly painted yellow tubs still garish with summer flowers which had been artfully placed one each side of the porch.
She Closed Her Eyes
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The fantasy of the undecorated house is Tuesday morning as it is actually lived, not as we would like other people to imagine it; it is the idea of energy, of chaos, of motion, of mess well, mess within very circumscribed and aesthetically pleasing limits: children lying in a pile of books, artfully unmade beds, one piece of clothing strewn across a couch.
The Rise of the Personal
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She arranged the quilting materials as artfully as she could, feeling all the while as though she were fashioning a tribute to Mara.
SUDDENLY
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It is interesting that style. com would describe the collection as "Artfully swagged dresses in checks and ikats, often with bras or bandeaus worn on the outside, looked like the sort of pieces a sapeur's date might wear" when only two models in the show looked anything like a sapeur's date.
Shaena Henry: Designers Bring Africa to Runways, Leave Models Behind
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Michael Zisman, introduced as "the world's only bebop bandoneonist," contributed "Close Encounters," which also artfully blended the three genres, while an excerpt from Mr. D'Rivera's "Sonata for Clarinet and Piano" came off like a waltz in which some bandito had stolen the third beat.
Holiday Cheer
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Having artfully solved a thorny problem a week ago, the government has now embraced a deal whose terms reek of the bailout it was at such pains to avoid.
The Real Cost
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The work artfully juxtaposes two complex, quasi-symphonic percussion instruments piano and gamelan ensemble, East and West each making fluent-sounding attempts at adopting the accent of the other, with the piano's unusual tuning giving a quirky tinge to its tones, a slight acridity to would-be octaves.
Music review: Post-Classical Ensemble recognizes the work of Lou Harrison
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The ‘welcome’ signs, artfully disposed, make it clear that hospitality is merely an allusive flavor; they are in no wise meant to be taken literally.
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It's no wonder we cling to marriage and monogamy as it has been so unartfully defined for us.
Jenny Block: Sexual Assault Awareness Month: If We Want to Live Honest Lives, We Have to Tell the Truth
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With its clear chicken broth, bits of green onion, finely shredded cabbage and artfully fastened dumplings, said soup is a fine way to begin your feast.
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We shower, we smear and spray ourselves with product, we defecate into artfully designed porcelain which takes away the ordure invisibly and more or less odourlessly.
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Why is Mrs. Bardell so earnestly entreated not to agitate herself about this warming – pan, unless (as is no doubt the case) it is a mere cover for hidden fire — a mere substitute for some endearing word or promise, agreeably to a preconcerted system of correspondence, artfully contrived by Pickwick with a view to his contemplated desertion, and which I am not in a condition to explain?
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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His hair is artfully tousled and a set of perfectly white teeth gleam winningly.
Times, Sunday Times
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His delivery is purposefully nervous, artfully irresolute.
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Readers who learned about this integrity scandal only from The Washington Post today would think that this was just a minor incident designed to correct some misquotations, and that Zinsmeister just handled the situtation "unartfully," to use Tony Snow's word of defense.
Archive 2006-05-01
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Two came recently: the winningly inventive Opening Ceremony, selling pioneering, quirky international fashion — long black Brazilian capes, finely knitted German undershirts — by designers and manufacturers you’ve almost certainly never heard of; and De Vera, a sort of hyper-curated flea market — a Wunderkammer, really — where necklaces made from ancient intaglios are displayed in artfully crammed vitrines alongside antique opium pipes and Victorian mourning jewelry.
A Bit of Punctuation
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People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Before the invention of the fridge, the track, artfully cut into the contours of the hill, was used by muleteers to haul down snow to be stored in a deep pit, which can still be seen.
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So the artfully crafted notion of a ‘public domain’ ringing our jewelled isles shouldn't be too easily disparaged.
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The central pleasure of a truly satisfying memoir is the narrator's ability to reflect, artfully and persuasively.
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Obama's unartfully expressed ideas about the origins of discontent of those who are struggling in our society were used in the context of how to best reach out and make his (Obama's) value proposition tangible to this group.
Hillary And Obama Camps Duke It Out Over Her Alleged "Screw 'Em" Comment
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Blending wood and steel together, artfully, is something to behold.
Some Peeves from a Gunsmith
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He captivated the audience, artfully segueing from songs that made you laugh, to ones that stilled the crowd with their meaningfulness, their power.
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Fendi has played artfully with rhinestones, studding the tops for a line of mink co-ordinates.
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But on Clinton, they blend artfully.
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Her brown hair fell in silky waves, the curls artfully framing her face.
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Artfully, I must confess, I mentioned that The Herald of the same day had spoken warmly about some slighting remark concerning Holmes made in the House the previous night.
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Bill Brown, somewhat of a shyster, and his ear ever cocked to the crowd, was not above taking advantage when opportunity offered, and when it did not offer, to dogmatize artfully.
CHAPTER 28
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They chose their name artfully—cynically, even—appropriating the term the militants used to signify all the social and political ideals they had invested in America’s unexpected and epochal revolution.
Robert Morris
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His golden skin and fair hair were artfully set off by the theatrical costume.
A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
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The man-made landscape is penetrated by a series of long, horizontal pergolas made of fragments of brick, concrete, and rusted steel artfully cut and sculpted to evoke the jagged forms of urban graffiti.
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Men love tumbling curls and artfully tousled hair.
The Sun
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Well, there was no denying that, Cory thought ruefully, assimilating the pale blonde hair, artfully coiffed, the im maculate maquillage, the close fitting dove-coloured trouser suit that showed off her mother's slim, toned figure to the best advantage, and the fur jacket draped casually round her shoulders.
Rome's Revenge
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Downstairs, Jonathan Yun artfully handcrafts original sterling silver jewellery like the lion's head wrap ring I now wear and Wong Keng Fuan brings his training in painting, landscape design and mosaics to hand blown glassworks.
Cynthia Rosenfeld: Exploring Penang, Malaysia's Colony of Cool
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Kim was given the secret task of artfully slipping the tongue-twisting word 'discombobulate' into conversations with each of the camp mates without any of them twigging there was anything awry.
Undefined
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Slice the small strawberries and arrange artfully over the top.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was really carefully, artfully calibrating not to part with the president" while at the same time being "cognizant" of her role as a mother.
CHENEY FAMILY VALUES
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My favourite was beef stroganoff, artfully served with rice with vegetables.
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All night, the artfully sprawling rock lulls the lovers and the fighters into a state of dewy-eyed contentedness.
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So the artfully crafted notion of a ‘public domain’ ringing our jewelled isles shouldn't be too easily disparaged.
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The five-star resort's proud boast is that it has no fewer than 42 swimming pools artfully woven into its maze of rooms, apartments and villas.
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It artfully expresses a theme that the boomers will no doubt advance as they retire: agelessness.
A State of Mind (The Boomer Blog)
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This uncertainty about where the line between divergence and repugnancy lay was the crux of the problem, and the dynamic thrill, artfully illustrated by the author.
Spagnola reviews Bilder, The Transatlantic Constitution
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Instead of the elegant simplicity which once characterized this sweet secluded retreat, an air of voluptuousness reigned in every quarter: the paintings, the artfully concealed recesses in which the sofas were placed, the mirrors — all, in short, evinced a taste repugnant to the nicer feelings of true female delicacy — all breathed a fascinating influence, rather calculated to derange the virtuous sensations of the heart, rather than to render them more permanent.
Stella of the North, or the Foundling of the Ship
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This theme is played out through a dozen strangers who become related by artfully contrived coincidence.
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Cross stitching is the artfully deprived persons way of making beautiful pictures.
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Her foot pointed artfully toward tapering toes.
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Then he admitted he may have said what he said unartfully and now he's deeply apologized if he's offended anyone.
CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2008
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It flows into a stylish lounge adjoining a courtyard garden and is artfully lit, with coffered ceilings and designer lamps.
Times, Sunday Times
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Four wrecked cars were artfully strewn along the roadway, doors buckled, windshields smashed, engines crumpled.
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Google suggests that unartfully is over 30 times less common than inartfully.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Inartful:
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Dan was sure to get the term slander in there at least three times and was in full concern troll mode, warning NBC of the risks of putting such a volatile personality on a national broadcast, someone that automatically would alienate half the audience, normally a great football talker, Dan simply unbottled and revealed himself as an angry conservative, Dan tried to get Zig to agree with him, Zig artfully declined.
The Curly R: A Washington RedskinZ Blog
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Fendi has played artfully with rhinestones, studding the tops for a line of mink co-ordinates.
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The tables are covered with brown butcher paper; the silver-tipped lightbulbs are bare; and everything is artfully mismatched, from seats to stemware.
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one of those artfully staged photographs
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At the Whitney, sculpture must inevitably be crowded - sometimes artfully, sometimes higgledy-piggledy - into a formal museum setting.
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But that's crazy when you see how Wortmann has artfully grafted a passion for football onto the warp and woof of ordinary existence and made them whole.
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In any case, the minister has since, as I noted above, artfully backed away from his previous excitable fulminations.
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I thought you had been above such meanness, or, I promise you, I should never have borrowed your half-guinea, "added Holloway; and he left his unfortunate creditor to reflect upon the new ideas of _meanness_ and _spirit_, which had been thus artfully thrown out.
Tales and Novels — Volume 01
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Artfully arranged under this symphony of green and white is a pair of equally beautiful, lime-green, soft-leathered, hand-stitched, high-heeled Manolos.
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His eyes stared up at me, his kohl eyeliner artfully smudged, his lips almost parting in a teasing smile.
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Cortesi in reply to him, artfully insinuated, that one great ob - jeat of the Spaniards in visiting a country so remote f jrom their 0¥m, was to redress grievances, and to re - lieve tiie oppressed; and having encouraged him to hope lor this interposition in due time, be continued his march to Quiabislam.
The history of America
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Low pastel lights, fine wines and wooden bowls with artfully scattered fruit adorn the place.
Times, Sunday Times
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His hair is artfully tousled and a set of perfectly white teeth gleam winningly.
Times, Sunday Times
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My perspective is that Nazi propagandists (or any other propagandist whose works shields or justifies wrongdoing for political ends) peddle in dishonesty and are scum - no matter how artfully they do it.
“Capitalism: A Love Story” angers and inspires » Scene-Stealers
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The central question for an Aristotelian critic or historian is how artfully the rhetor marshaled those means to a particular end, and this is the question that seems central to the inquiries of Browne and Oison.
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What with your artfully juxtaposed angles of pub roof and gasometer girders, and your stark relief foliage echoing the passing clouds in the background.
Cricket & All That Gas
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He walked out of the kitchen area and tranquilly walked through the halls, admiring the paintings and furniture that were artfully placed in different places as decoration.
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It is a panoramic vision of electronica, centered on the skittery rhythms of drum and bass, artfully blending jazzy tonalities, lush melodic washes, and deep space environments.
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So keen is it to draw a parallel between the two periods that it shows a black-and-white photograph of a US tank in Saigon, artfully juxtaposed with a contemporary picture of an American tank in Baghdad.
They can't help it
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People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Keep going, up the distressed marble staircase to the three artfully cluttered rooms in the sky.
Times, Sunday Times
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My best resource would be in the circumjacent history of the times, and perhaps in some digressions artfully introduced, like the fortunes of the Peripatetic philosophy in the portrait of Lord Bacon.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings
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Lucky for him, all these poor people still have time to line up for several thousand black-and-white shots during which they artfully arrange themselves in striking tableaux and stare into Salles' lens.
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An artfully designed stained-glass hummingbird seems a fitting object to remind us of our stay in this peaceful, bird-rich town.
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He was about forty, and his fine head of blond hair, which he'd taken care not to disturb in removing the hood, was artfully dressed in the style they used to call windswept; that, and the elegance of his duds, were in obscene contrast to the bloated face, but it was the eyes that told me my first impression had been right in the bull: they were bold, blue, smiling, and amiable as fish-hooks.
THE NUMBERS
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All were dressed intriguingly (by Mr. Happel and Rustam Khamdamov) to indicate everything from an innocent young man in a sailor suit (the central Robert Fairchild) to nymphlike mermaids whose slicked-back coiffeur-like caps suggested artfully styled seafoam.
Two Newly Built Ballets
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In July 2009, in Ghana, President Obama told Africa's "strongmen" artfully that they have been driving on the wrong side of history for so long that they are headed straight for history's dustbin:
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Steel Vises, Clenched Fists and Closing Walls (Part I)
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But, even so, I kind of like what he said, even if he said it unartfully.
Archive 2006-10-29
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We also had the ‘condom’ salad, with the shrimps artfully curled to look a little like the prophylactics.
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With a smock artfully covering his paunchy frame, Pavarotti, 56, burst into golden-toned song.
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'She had; he came here the day before she wrote to you; and I could prove to you, if it were worth while, that on that day she went voluntarily to his house, though not artfully or blamably; stayed for two hours playing and singing; that no sooner did she leave him than she went straight home, and wrote the letter saying she should not see you again, entirely because she had seen him and fallen desperately in love with him -- a perfectly natural thing for a young girl to do, considering that he's the handsomest man in the county.
Desperate Remedies
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The main public frontage is defined by a triangular, rock-studded parvis while the inner edge encloses a small garden landscaped in an artfully minimal Japanese style, creating a peaceful haven for contemplation.
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Betsy was fussing with the thick curls, artfully twisting them around her fingers to form short ringlets.
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It must take at least a day or two for these dazed, sun struck survivors to get the idea that sidewalks, even though they are pocked with even more artfully-placed, ankle crunching hazards, could be the least dangerous place to be ambling.
Good morning, Melaque: one day in a small Mexico beach town
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The walls are ragged in pale terracotta tones, and white draperies are swagged artfully around the front windows.
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She twirled her fingers in his long, artfully layered auburn hair.
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Before the invention of the fridge, the track, artfully cut into the contours of the hill, was used by muleteers to haul down snow to be stored in a deep pit, which can still be seen.
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A resident INAH custodian is on hand, whenever the church is open, to switch on the soft lighting artfully positioned so as to reveal most of the incredible details of the paintings.
Did you know? The Sistine Chapel of Mexico
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He stuck candles in wine bottles on each of his artfully mismatched tables.
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The most intriguing part of her speech was how artfully she euphemized.
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This reverse process can make these viewers unknowingly complicit with their own duping through artfully crafted masquerade.
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In his Sunday speech to the nation, President Bush once again artfully attempted to suggest a connection between deposing Saddam Hussein and the war on terror that began with the September 11th attacks:
Balkinization
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His golden skin and fair hair were artfully set off by the theatrical costume.
A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
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Dried wheat grass found in a drawer was artfully arranged in a blue glass pitcher and became a dining-table centerpiece.
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People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The pageant was played out artfully and circumspectly.
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Her foot pointed artfully toward tapering toes.
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She was a tall, slender woman with an artfully tousled mop of shiny blonde hair.
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This full color catalog features Galco's extensive line of fine leather holsters, belts, accessories and artfully crafted leather purses and briefcases.
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This is generally stuff I've been too liberal artfully educated to not say anything about (Seizer's STIGMA class for the * headdesk*), or, in more ivory tower terms, "interrogate".
What's Best for the Oppressed, #0: Intro!
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For by this time he had artfully concentred and kindled up all the inflammable ingredients of her constitution; and she now looked back upon the virtuous principles of her education, as upon a disagreeable and tedious dream, from which she had waked to the fruition of never-fading joy.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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Your eye darts right and alights on what seems to be a Tuscan dining porch, artfully packed with chipped dinnerware, rose-colored drinking glasses, whitewashed iron candlesticks, and weathered mismatched chairs.
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A string of pearls tinged pink sat at her throat and her hair was artfully done in a cascade of curls.
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They were really doing it artfully from behind the window curtains.
Peter Pan
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Basil artfully transposes this tale into a Christian religious and ethical context.
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They were artfully placed among majestic paperbark trees, relatives of the eucalyptus that shed their reddish skin in sheets, like tourists at Bondi Beach.
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He laved hot water over her and, starting at her feet, moved up her legs, touching her artfully, almost there, then not, almost there, then not.
Three Stages of Amazement
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The advantage of a roast is that it cooks artfully, gradually, and because of its size and fat composition resists overcooking or dryness.
Ben Eisendrath: Steaks Fit to Thaw a Logger
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He blinks, barely noticing her black bob of hair, chromatophore-tinted shadows artfully tuned around her eyes.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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It's a terrific - looking car : modern, characterful, sporty , with great stance and artfully sculpted sheetmetal.
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What does it mean to you when Reid used the term "unartfully" with regards to his comments.
ModerateVoters.org
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Both films are artfully scratched and include 'missing reels', to evoke viewing conditions in the grindhouse cinemas of the 1970s.
Times, Sunday Times
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The figure is artfully foreshortened, engaging in a sweeping contrapposto to provide a virtuoso ‘frame’ for the sudarium, the origin of all cult images, made without human hands from the face of Christ.
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His clothes were artfully arranged to look stylishly casual.
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Antique ceramics dot the bedroom walls, artfully distressed furniture and soft linen complete the look.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were really doing it artfully from behind the window curtains.
Peter Pan
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She was decked out in a pair of expensive jeans with artfully studded rhinestones, an off-the-shoulder shirt in pale pink, heels that I'd never before seen in her closet, and stunning, yet simple jewelry.
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His designs here follow the same artfully deconstructed but romantically luxe æsthetic; and for the most part, he succeeded rather well.
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The figure is artfully foreshortened, engaging in a sweeping contrapposto to provide a virtuoso ‘frame’ for the sudarium, the origin of all cult images, made without human hands from the face of Christ.
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The figure is artfully foreshortened, engaging in a sweeping contrapposto to provide a virtuoso ‘frame’ for the sudarium, the origin of all cult images, made without human hands from the face of Christ.
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I've seen scientists having their photos taken for publicity shots and I know the photographer often ends up making the setting quite artificial (PI in pristine lab coat holding up a sequencing gel or other film while artfully arranged reagent bottles sparkle in the background seemed to be a popular one), so it's hard to know how representative they are of what these women usually dressed when they were working.
Depictions of 20th Century Women in Science: The Smithsonian Collection
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Couch "d] Let the - reader observe how artfully the word couched is placed, so as to make the sound expressive of the sense, — others on the grass CouchM. —
Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from the Text of Tonson ...
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Courtesy The Millicent Rogers Museum Rogers in artfully stacked turquoise cuffs.
Romancing the Stone
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There was no off-switch, and the seemingly clean-cut, anti-drugs pop star fell into every artfully concealed trap that fame laid for him.
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The resulting stills were then splashed all over the front of the Screws of the World with all the naughty bits artfully pixelated out.
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her foot pointed artfully toward tapering toes
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She was decked out in a pair of expensive jeans with artfully studded rhinestones, an off-the-shoulder shirt in pale pink, heels that I'd never before seen in her closet, and stunning, yet simple jewelry.
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Dried flowers, leaves and even tree stumps can be treated, preserved and arranged artfully, giving a simple, but elegant look to the interiors.
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That's the point that David Gregory was trying to make, perhaps unartfully as he fumbled with his microphone.
CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2006
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Washington like a bust, shoulder and chest, artfully carved - out mountain.
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As for sushi and sashimi, they're fresh and expertly, if not artfully, prepared.
