“The artifice was too palpable to escape Rotha's observation.”
“Amid the layers of artifice and corporate double-speak, here was at least one shiny nugget of honest-to-god truth.”
“But that he might attain the proper effect of his work under the artifice of a poetic disguise, he composed story in many respects like that of this historic Dido, according to the privilege of poets established by ancient custom.”