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Definition of Artifice |
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Artifice
A handicraft; a trade; art of making. Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work. Artful or skillful contrivance. Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.] Related Definitions: An, Art, Artful, Contrivance, Contrived, Crafty, Device, Elaborate, Handicraft, Ingenious, Making, Meaning, Now, Of, Or, Skillful, The, Trade, Trick, Usual, Work, Workmanship |
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Artifice Quotations
Art lies by its own artifice. Ovid To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. Wallace Stevens I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty. Mira Nair Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. James Joyce That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. Walter Pater |
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Artifice Translations
artifice in French is dispositif artifice in German is Kunstgriff, Vorrichtung artifice in Italian is disposizione artifice in Spanish is dispositivo, artificio artifice in Swedish is knep, list |
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