artifice

I nearly said Artifice but caught myself just in time.

There was no artifice in the smile she gave him.

"So you'll have a chance to watch her without any artifices getting in the way."

The word art is not so far from artifice and artificial.

There was no artifice in Face's voice or manner now.

This is the point where the artifice ends and the real world takes over.

Sometimes a bit of artifice can seem more authentic than the real thing.

Also, we know that this is a kind of artifice - it's a performance.

The only artifice is that he keeps saying it's a park.

In the end, he used a simple artifice to solve the problem.

Or had it been here all along, concealed by some artifice?

This thing near me I suspected had no need of such artifices.

It would be false, and there was no room for artifice.

"But when things become all about artifice and surface, it's just less interesting."

On the game board, as well, I was able to use artifice to win matches.

But as with most human artifices, its spirit never died out completely.

Perhaps he should try that older, simpler form of Artifice.

He will have achieved art out of almost pure artifice.

There was no room in him for sham or artifice.

This play between reality and artifice has always been the artist's concern.

Such artifice is not necessarily a good sign in a restaurant.

Without artifice, she just put down directly what happened to her."

It would certainly teach him a lesson, but their relationship had always been free from artifice.

A clever artifice, one which she would hardly have thought of herself.