Posted on 05/26/2005 5:30:40 AM PDT by secret garden2
Word For The Day, Thursday, May 26, 2005
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
[artifice \AR-tuh-fis\, noun: 1. Cleverness or skill; ingenuity; inventiveness. 2. An ingenious or artful device or expedient. 3. An artful trick or stratagem. 4. Trickery; craftiness; insincere or deceptive behavior.]
[Built by design and artifice, it fell apart in confusion and chaos. --John Gray, [1]False Dawn
This theatricality is necessary to signal Prospero's farewell to magic, and indeed the play debates that very contrast between artifice and reality, illusion and truth. --Amy Rosenthal, "An insubstantial pageant," [2]New Statesman, February 3, 2003
The smoke had cleared enough for him to see bayonets flash in the distance, behind the wall, what looked like thousands of them, the wall itself appearing to rise out of the smoke as if produced by the artifice of some magician. --Kathleen Cambor, [3]In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden
The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with the much trickier dealings with members of their own species. --Frans De Waal, [4]The Ape and the Sushi Master
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Etymology: [Artifice comes from artificium, from artifex, artific-, "artificer, craftsman," from Latin ars, art-, "art" + facere, "to make." It is related to artificial. ]
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Comment Section:
Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!
Here is my example with WFTD.
[Watching McPain engage in obligatory artifice on this morning's Fox & Friends was illuminating. It really is all about him and his movie.]
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
;-)
My, my, my-what is going on in here? Is there a three way session going on in the janitor's closet? I was going to finish my invoices, but I think I'll pop some popcorn and hang out here.
My sister-in-law and I cut the junque shopping short because it is raining, came home and now she's packing up the carnival glass she bought for the trip home tomorrow, and I just finished cooking the shrimp, pasta and snow peas and preparing and icing down the greens and cucumbers for tonight's shrimp salad.
* high five *
I'm not sure what the heck I walked into. I'm just taking notes and learning
My mother has a huge carnival glass collection.
My sister-in-law has quite a bit of it, too. I have a lot of wine, water and brandy glasses from hubby's various TDY trips here and there displayed in a glass fronted cabinet over the bar area, but we really use that glassware.
Of course. That is when we get to read the comments portion on your card. ;)
Have you seen the new one yet? How does it compare to the previous ones? A++
Something risque seemed to be going on between Miss, Robert and HD when I came in, but they've gone outside now-here, have some popcorn and see if they will be back...
Sounds WONDERFUL, Texan. I'm now sitting at the diningroom table with my fork and knife, pointed up toward the ceiling, clenched in my hungry little lunch hooks. My tummy's glad that your junque shopping got rained out. Yummy. :-)
And Bobby's alone in the janitor's closet, singing Muskat Love to himslf, trying to get the coos down just right. He ran in there when I said that he may now smell my cheek. I knew he would run. And Dupa put a "Kick Me" sticker on Bobby's back, but Bobby doesn't know--hasn't heard is rustle around yet.
Why did you drop your notepad and pencil and run like the wind?
There will be plenty of shrimp salad to go around-I steamed 1 1/2 pounds of shrimp, blanched 1/4 pound of snow peas and cooked an 8 oz package of bowtie pasta. I'll add a couple of cucumbers, ripe olives, tomatoes, green onions and baby greens, arrange the shrimp on top, put the croutons, bacon bits and parmesan cheese on the table along with the salad dressings and everyone can help themselves.
I don't know where you came from - but don't leave, whatever you do!
Oh, my.
I thought that the guys went fishing?
Robert spends entirely too much time in that janitor's closet you know...
2, speaking of grades, did you see my use of the WFTD in my first post #64? I put it in bold text. Do I get extra credit for that helpful detail? Yesterday I musta gotten an "F" because I never came through with an application. I need to bring my grade up. I also have some money.
What a sweet thing to say, Dupa. :-) I hope that I'm still new girl. I think it's wearing thin.
I guess that I'm like the good-cookin'-nosed neighborhood kid that always shows up just before dinner, huh? ;-)
Actually, I've never done it...I just like so sound experienced.
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