(n.) Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.]
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors describe a technical artifice, the use silicon-impregnated compresses, to help in the peroperative ultrasonographic detection of these section planes.
(2) The seriousness and sincerity were almost shocking in that den of artifice.
(3) More recently, Iain Sinclair, in his novel Dining on Stones, an elegy to the A13, describes it as: "A landscape to die for: haze lifting to a high clear morning, pylons, distant road, an escarpment of multi-coloured containers, a magical blend of nature and artifice."
(4) As I signed up, I decided to ask Martha a few questions to see how much of her was artifice.
(5) All of the suffering in Europe – inflicted in the service of a man-made artifice, the euro – is even more tragic for being unnecessary.
(6) There never will be sufficient financial resources, organizational artifice, or measurable standards to safeguard quality any other way.
(7) Poisonous and deleterious components are deemed to be "added," even if they are natural constituents of food, if any amount is present through the artifice of man.
(8) As such, the migration amendment bill seeks to implement a staggering legal artifice for a nation that claims to walk tall among the civilised.
(9) Technical artifices are described to assist compliance with these imperatives.
(10) "These are legal artifices created to result in paying less tax," he said.
(11) But this operation imposes technical artifices when direct urtero-vesical implantation is not possible.
(12) Close friends say this is not artifice, but reflects his personality; in any case positioning himself as the polar opposite of the frequently choleric Sarkozy has paid off in the polls.
(13) The less visible in the context of individual's facial architecture the more esthetic the prosthetic artifice is.
(14) It's almost as though the more outmoded a politician becomes, the more artifice is required to keep him fresh.
(15) We think that this artifice could also be used in case of anatomic variations of the hepatic artery like trifurcation.
(16) The essence of camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration.
(17) Barnard's unusual technique, highlighting the artifice in film-making, showed that no single person has a monopoly on truth – and certainly not the documentary director who shapes truth into a narrative in the editing process.
(18) The proper manoeuvres and artifices to avoid intraoperative accidents are suggested.
(19) Remarkable for its relentless skewering of artifice and pretension, Lucky Jim also contains some of the finest comic set pieces in the language.
(20) As Susan Sontag wrote, camp is artifice and theatricality and flamboyance.
Fetch
Definition:
(v. t.) To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get.
(v. t.) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
(v. t.) To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
(v. t.) To reduce; to throw.
(v. t.) To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh.
(v. t.) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
(v. t.) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
(n.) A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice.
(n.) The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nationalisation of a travel agency sounds far-fetched, but has a historical precedent.
(2) Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, and Paul Ryan are all not so far-fetched names for a run in 2016.
(3) So yes, it might sound far-fetched, the sort of proposal that lends itself to endless satire from the triumphalist neoliberal right.
(4) We will all be martyred in this fight.” Attempted coup in Turkey: what we know so far Read more He sent his bodyguard to fetch his personal gun.
(5) Like the rest of Katine, the medical staff have to fetch their water in jerry cans from a nearby borehole.
(6) Royal Mail has put its former south London mail centre at Nine Elms up for sale, which analysts estimate could fetch up to £662m.
(7) For example, a council home in south London could easily fetch £500,000 on an open market valuation.
(8) It is an optimistic but not completely far-fetched vision.
(9) Girls continue to fetch polluted water from muddy puddles and rivers, walking past broken hand-pumps and schools they would be attending if they had the time.
(10) The letter will go on sale at Bloomsbury Auctions in Mayfair on Thursday and is expected to fetch up to £8,000.
(11) It is no longer far-fetched to consider a former host of the reality TV show The Apprentice occupying the White House.
(12) Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness – or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.
(13) Maybe: as long as “Panchito” continues to push the messages that are strike a chord with US Latino Catholics, it is not far-fetched to say that this 21 st century pope could go down as the most transformative leader the Church and its faithful in the Americas have ever seen.
(14) For a start, the idea that George Osborne would increase the tax threshold simply to play footsie with Nick Clegg is far-fetched.
(15) Analysis of data revealed that 70% of students wash and fetch water in the streams and ponds for domestic purposes.
(16) The story of a secret tunnel between Rich's office and the Glashof restaurant may be far fetched, but Lang says that during the day he refused to leave his office without a cordon of Mossad-trained bodyguards, and during the evening on the ride back to Baar he insisted on a tail car to accompany his Mercedes.
(17) Artistic comparisons with Joseph Brodsky are far-fetched .
(18) One reporter watched astonished as the president went off to fetch biscuits.
(19) Surely there must be some hilarious anecdotes from those days when he was fetching beef sandwiches for Brian Johnston?
(20) By 2005 he was the highest paid painter in India with his work easily fetching $1m (£538,000).