"Artificiality" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... an unaccustomed pleasure mantling her neck and cheeks the girl was certainly a pretty picture. The plain and simple costume was of the cut of the provinces rather than that of Paris, but it set off the lithe and graceful figure that needed no artificiality of the dressmaker to ...
— Mlle. Fouchette - A Novel of French Life • Charles Theodore Murray
... do; truly I do. You must not think me ungrateful. No one has ever helped me more, and beneath this mask of artificiality she is really a noble-hearted woman. I do not understand the necessity for people to lead false lives. Is it this way in all society—Eastern society, I mean? Do men and women there continually scheme and flirt, smile and stab, forever assuming ...
— Bob Hampton of Placer • Randall Parrish
... I guess." He laughed again, but with a colorless artificiality, sweating over the habit of solitude that leads a man into ...
— The Duke Of Chimney Butte • G. W. Ogden
... old superstitions and rites, including incantations of the old magicians and practices of divination by lot. The doggerel of counting-out rhymes is often traceable to old Latin formulas used for these purposes, a fact that shows the absurdity and artificiality of purposely ...
— Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium • Jessie H. Bancroft
... again. This time, somehow, the action grated on her. Before, it had seemed impulsive, a mere spontaneous evidence of friendship. Now there was a suggestion of artificiality,—of calculation. She drew back a little in her chair. Deep down in her some watchful instinct had sounded an alarm. She was ...
— The Man Upstairs and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse
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