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!
"Who is "Better" (and who is Punk for that matter!) and why do you hope gw is felling her butter Better than anybody else who gw chooses to feel batter?" Robt asks innocently.
Do you hope Mrsgw gets to feel Better too? Or does that somethong you'd rather not bring up in class in pubic? (Er, publick.)
Oh, well, sure. TN has 3 crooked demo politicians.
Down here, they could start by arresting all of the demo's in the GA legistlature....... The repubbies left over (and the AJC idiotorial writers) wouldn't notice.
Bobby, Better is a good girl...like me. Don't you feel that?
And Bobby, Punk is a bad boy...like you. And I know you feel that.
Ya better bet your bottom booty Betty Boobie is a better booby than the other guy you're gonna perk....
I love good poetry! A+++ !
Now Scram or I'll pants ya.
Xs, I forgot what you call an unkwown down zipper, in Philly, but Bobby dun gots one...AGAIN...today. And he smells like a dirty boys' bathroom.
Make that "old gum behind your ear--WITH lunch chunks in it."
I loved your poem too, Jack...as usual. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Hey Dupa, can you take that on The Vomit Comet? I want one. And Dupa, ya want my other twinkie? It's fresh, not skunky. :-)
How come "HE" gets to pick your twinky?
Hmmmph!
(Robt scowls, sulks, gets pouty ... )
DO I have to have my report card signed?
The artifice of STAR WARS tends to overshadow everything else that sucked.
That's just one of those good lines I have no response to...
That was meant for Bobby...as I make him wait for my every direction. I threw it in as just a "funny/bizarro" thing...kinda like Bobby is. I'm waiting Bobby...and I'm tapping one of my black patent leather mary janes.
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