The events are farcical even at their darkest, artificed to an utter irrealism. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Strange Fiction: Postmodern(ism)] Reference
Around the plants was an artificed floor of shimmery silk-overlay that kept the prey lines from sticking to the cavern's rocky surface. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Indomitable]
These steps must be small, because the Rationalist aesthetic is an artificed superposition, an imposition on the clay of a world deeply Romanticised by many. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Moment of Modernity] Reference
Does this or that SF novel "get away" with an anomaly as its "one impossible thing" because of a richly artificed context, or is that anomaly highlighted by that context?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
The show includes a series of Reishi mushrooms grown into highly artificed forms, the aforementioned sculpture grown out of oysters, and a self-contained survival capsule for one living plant. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: April 4, 2004 - April 10, 2004 Archives] Reference
Even at its most artificed -- through this artifice, in fact -- NINE SONGS achieves a realism that makes the staged conversations of most realist cinema look as phony as the insufferable babbling of Dawson's Creek. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk] Reference
Everything we know suggests that the dynamics is a matter of relationships, that nature does not need artificed order — dams to stop a river, pumps to make it flow, men planting seeds to decree where plants sprout. From Wordnik.com. [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference
Where temporal and nomological impossibility is artificed into narrative in the form of hypothetical/counterfactual and metaphysical quirks, logical impossibility is artificed into narrative in the form of pataphysical quirks. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk] Reference
It is that they affect to disdain the superlative harmonies of artificed and ordered rhythms; that knowing not. From Wordnik.com. [Shandygaff] Reference
This is more than just not making him effete or falling into an artificed roleplay of butchness just to make it clear that teh gays can be manly too. From Wordnik.com. [Notes From The Geek Show] Reference
Contrast that with the equally omniscient PoV of traditional Epic, which tends to cut to the chase quicker, I’d say, but in doing so makes its scene-setting more blatant, more artificed. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
In my take on it that’s a scaling up of diegesis and mimesis to a structural level — the artificed/told story structure and the realistic representation of events as they would take place in the real world. From Wordnik.com. [War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…] Reference
All text is artificed. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
Whereby their names were artificed. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
See also this interview with Selby himself: http://www. outsideleft.com/main. php? updateID = 10 Selby’s later works sound even more artificed. From Wordnik.com. [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference
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