artifice

“You can throw a lot of money at visual effects, but usually the audience feels the artifice,” says Förderer.

The amalgamation of memory, historical fact and artifice yield an engrossing incantation.

The making of “Nickel Boys” required a similar balancing act: meticulous technical artifice to deliver a seemingly spontaneous lyricism.

One thing that defines theater-kid energy in my mind is using artifice to get to an emotional honesty.

She seemed determined to strip her fame of all artifice while still claiming its pleasures.