How To Use Artificiality In A Sentence
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But I agree also with Jeff and the writer of this piece that the artificiality of “genre” versus “literary” needs to be broken down, and the way that works of art borrow from, syncretize, and rework genres needs more acknowledgement.
Genres of Fiction, and Why They Aren’t Discrete Entities
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Westerner's perplexed by the artificiality of Hangzhou's dredged, diked and manipulated Xihu need only recall their own foundational myths.
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This was a suite of six prose poems, mostly composed in an ironic and decorative biblical style replete with anaphora and the artificiality of thee's, thy's and thou's.
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For example, as so many women worked in jobs such as boatbuilding where promotion and flexibility were allowed in time of war, the artificiality of the horizontal segregation is demonstrated.
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Look at how the pleating in the Virgin's headdress and halo is matched by the pattern of the rocks behind her head: brilliant artificiality or naive conceit?
Gopnik's Daily Pic: Bacchiacca in Baltimore
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Since then medical practice has been straitjacketed by its artificiality, to the detriment of the patient's own narrative.
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Maintaining a connection to the artificiality of cinema, Lewis hires actors and creates scenarios for all his films.
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Barney's art has a kind of rococo artificiality - he loves powders and pastels - that's theatrical rather than false.
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The four actors of whom I shall attempt to tell, you something -- Burbage, Betterton, Garrick, and Kean -- were the _four_ greatest champions, in their respective times, on the stage of Nature in contradistinction to Artificiality.
The Drama
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Would not a semantically empty text, keeping only the pragmatic skeleton of a conventional letter, aptly embody the artificiality of such letters?
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The hills and dales in the Green Park are perfect -- their artificiality is their beauty.
Celibates
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I did not feel that I could stand there bearing my canines for 30 seconds waiting for the flashbulbs to stop popping without melting into the floor at my own artificiality.
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He saw the consummate art and artificiality of Wagner, and preferred it to all other music, at a time when the German master was ignored and despised by a classicized musical world.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4
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But Bandslam has no interest in delivering the same gumball pop artificiality and one-note characters that those films offered.
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There is always a sense of artificiality, of distance maintained, of forced bonhomie.
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Yet here, too, his artificiality is a serious blemish, his lamentations for the loss of the _pueri delicati_ of friends do not, and can hardly be expected to, ring true, and the same blemish affects even the poems where he laments his own loss.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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Like many of the artists whose works were exhibited at the fair, Lux's photographs blur the boundary between reality and artificiality.
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But her work is very much about contrivance and artificiality.
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We may again observe the correspondence between the change of dialect and change of tone in stanzas nine and ten, the increase of artificiality coming with his literary English and culminating in the unspeakable "tenebrific scene.
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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Heracles there appears a philanthropical as well as an ascetic theme, a hedonistic attraction towards a sim - pler, more natural way of life as a reaction against artificiality and excessive civilization.
CYNICISM
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This question of naturalness as opposed to artificiality is not immediately pertinent to our problem, nor is the matter of optimism and pessimism, nor the biologic idea of survival.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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To make visible that extreme degree of artificiality, and to clarify the fact that such fakery is the normal condition of poetry that masquerades as personal feeling, is an intellectual accomplishment of some magnitude.
Life of Letitia Landon
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It appears to me, indeed, that, while an air of artificiality is lent to a tale of complex and sophisticated people which the novelist causes to be guessed at and interpreted by any mere looker-on, there need be no such drawback if the looker-on is sophisticated, and the people he interprets are simple.
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But this would be hopelessly burdensome, so budgets are used instead. we might argue that the cost of this artificiality is less than than the cost of weighing everything on an organization-wide basis.
Government Incentives, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Perhaps what really defines this classic of lingerie is its artificiality.
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We seek artificiality, which is an organized and optimized signal coming from an astronomical environment from which neither it nor anything like it is either expected or observed: Very modest complexity, found out of context.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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The audience did not terrify her, nor the lights, nor the darkness, nor the queer smell of dust and paint and artificiality, that is a necessary part of the background of stage life.
The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World
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Because the thing I didn't like about Moulin Rouge was its artificiality, which is the same thing I don't like in Wes Anderson movies or Napoleon Dynamite can that opinion be distilled to earn someone a million dollars?
Archive 2008-12-01
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Shostak wrote: "We seek artificiality, which is an ** organized and optimized signal**
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Publicity stunts, artificiality, falseness, popularity contests, and egos, leave me cold, in blogland as in life, and I feel that I don't want to be part of this at present.
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The basic intimation of his book is a profound sense of loss animating every artificiality and perversity.
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For one, the Sanskrit meter depends primarily on quantity - that is, on syllabic duration - rather than on stress, as English does; also, the riks have a tonal accentuation which cannot be introduced into English without artificiality.
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Look at how the pleating in the Virgin's headdress and halo is matched by the pattern of the rocks behind her head: brilliant artificiality or naive conceit?
Gopnik's Daily Pic: Bacchiacca in Baltimore
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In Storr's catalogue essay, we hear precursors of such comments across 18 centuries from writers who condemned decadent foreign influences, womanish decoration and blatant artificiality.
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The whiteface, the Keystone Kops moments, the jerky movements, the syncopated line deliveries and Joe Bauer's loud sound effects—coins pouring into a cash register, Tiger Brown's heavy footsteps, the glugs as Mrs. Peachum Traute Hoess swallows her booze—contribute to the old-movie artificiality of the production.
Waging Underclass Warfare
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All Colette's efforts to equip her with the brilliant artificiality which is so easily imposed on the mind of a young girl, like a kind of lacquered varnish, had been wasted: the varnish would not hold.
Jean-Christophe Journey's End
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Hellenistic literature displayed (sometimes in one and the same work) a mandarin artificiality full of recondite, learned allusions and a lively, realistic interest in everyday life.
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On the other hand one was familiar with Hilbert's axiomatization of geometry which, although rigorous, did not have the character of artificiality of the constructive theories.
Mathematical Style
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Ravel surrounded himself with fake oriental objects, and the essential artificiality of his exotic bibelots finds clear echoes in Ravel's admission that he was ‘artificial by nature’.
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The dark hole behind the half-open curtain contributes something extra in underlining the artificiality of the setting.
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Outstanding beauty was marred by boxy acoustics and the artificiality of studio work.
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Gain in size and artificiality meant that the heavy full-bottomed wig could only be worn on formal or special occasions, or by gentlemen of leisure.
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Civilization is pernicious also because it interposes a veil of artificiality between the individual and the natural objects of experience.
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The spiral turns inward, twisting the soul of society into an alienated artificiality.
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I consider that my seeing the man those years glimpsd for me, beyond all else, that inner spirit and formthe unquestionable charm and vivacity, but intrinsic sophistication and artificialitycrystallizing rapidly upon the English stage and literature at and after Shaksperes time, and coming on accumulatively through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the beginning, fifty or forty years ago, of those disintegrating, decomposing processes now authoritatively going on.
The Old Bowery. November Boughs
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None the less, they are worth considering, because they help us to understand both the origin and the artificiality of feudalism.
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Instead they create a certain artificiality with which to sift through reality until it reaches its purest possible form.
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