artifice 的定义
- a clever trick or stratagem; a cunning, crafty device or expedient; wile.
- trickery; guile; craftiness.
- cunning; ingenuity; inventiveness: a drawing-room comedy crafted with artifice and elegance.
- a skillful or artful contrivance or expedient.
artifice 近义词
hoax; clever act
cunning; deception
skill, cleverness
更多artifice例句
- Limbro was excellent, and I kind of loved how the show made no attempt to justify its obvious artifice.
- Her large-scale photographs spike tired conventions of documentary portraiture with freewheeling artifice and invention.
- Like all of the show’s greatest set pieces, it was a stunning fusion of high artifice and deeply felt emotion.
- It might seem out of place on our busy modern calendars — a day shorn, like Rogers’ Hallmark tree, of artifice and pomp.
- Liza’s authentic warmth is such a refreshing antidote to Halston’s chilly artifice that a full-on dual portrait might have worked better to deepen both characters.
- There is usually something transparent about the artifice required by famous artists trying to remain current.
- Bratis, who trained in Athens, creates pieces of “femininity and pure elegance without artifice.”
- Point of view is inconsistent and Berg employs enough obvious filmic artifice to keep reminding us we are watching dramatization.
- “Faye always tried to advance his own idea of the institution by judicial artifice,” Lecourt told Le Monde.
- The collection is by turn bizarre, hilarious, unpredictable, all of it without a single note of artifice.
- He used every artifice to prevent a collision between the French and Neapolitan troops.
- This way of owning Guilt in a wrong Place, is a common Artifice to hide it in a right one.
- Artifice is always strictly subordinated, and the poet seems to sing spontaneously.
- Then you would recommend rank rebellion, either by force or artifice, according as circumstances might require?
- He listened, fascinated, incredulous, asking himself if human artifice could invent such a history.