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. ]
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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
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Numero cinco para usted.
Hacker Hunters - An elite force takes on the dark side of computing
If she does one day of jail time while the Hildebeast still walks free, there is NO justice on this earth.
Yes, but at least she'll be able to bring Big Sue to climax.
if that was the standard the jails would be empty, grimmy!
which will make her very popular in the cooler i imagine : )
Hey - and I even came in 4th!!!!
I must be getting old - When the 3 Musketeers have become nearly ancient classics!!! LOL
Have a great day!
26 May 1868
By one vote, President Andrew Johnson was acquitted at his impeachment trial.
"live out that incredibly detailed sexual assault fantasy"
I was thinking the same thing when I read that-talk about poetic justice...
if i were Jenn and i had to pick the one thing that most humiliated me about the entire episode, that would be it. she clearly has put a HECK of a lot of thought into that to be able to have filed the report in that amount of detail.
So be it. Public Enemy #1 should be in the Graybar Hotel.
of course she should, but i don't want everyone else to walk free, just bc no one has been able to incarcerate the beast.
"NO justice"
That's because most people can't afford to have those who have become inconvenient arkancided...
That's for sure-I haven't seen a full transcript of her bi-bondage crime fantasy, but it really looks like she has some latent sapphire tendencies, as the guys would say...
My sister-in-law is just about ready to go-back later...
See the artifice
of the artisan Hatch,
proclaiming fertilized ova
are not babies,
and therefore, killable
for the dreams
of scientific businessmen
who long to get rich
by enslaving these cell lines
bought on the back
of murder.
Selling one's soul
for the fey and unrealized promise
of future cures
is not how you demonstrate
your uprightness.
BTW, the NY and TX prison systems have other priorities... gotta buy Viagra for convicted sex offenders.
(It's official: it's a world gone mad.)
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