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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The documentary highlights the difference between Warren's real life and the artifice of her stage shows.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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However, there is no copying, no artifice .
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Marsha Hunt and Thulani Davis have no need for this kind of artifice .
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Mrs Tucker was a marvelously candid lady, not given to artifice .
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Not that she seeks pedestals; there seems no artifice about her.
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These works, in some way, seem timeless and devoid of artifice .
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This is not wild, uncontrolled nature, but greenery as artifice and symbol.
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Though he deceived the beholder into taking his artifice for reality, Zeuxis practised an idealist art.
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What is now considered natural is the result of learned artifice .