(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.
Juggle
Definition:
(v. i.) To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and sport by tricks of skill; to conjure.
(v. i.) To practice artifice or imposture.
(v. t.) To deceive by trick or artifice.
(n.) A trick by sleight of hand.
(n.) An imposture; a deception.
(n.) A block of timber cut to a length, either in the round or split.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cooled by a floor fan, nurses, doctors and support staff in blue scrubs move through the small anteroom next to the isolation ward to juggle the needs of the desperately ill patients inside as a stream of people knock on the canvas door asking for updates on their loved ones.
(2) The low cost of childcare, generous parental leave and the absence of a long-hours culture has meant that juggling a work-family balance is as much an issue for fathers as mothers in many Danish families.
(3) And despite her approachability, interviewers know not to ask her how she juggles everything.
(4) Juggling maintaining a high-quality blog or YouTube channel with student life can be tough, so you need to be constantly on top of deadlines and emails.
(5) I am expert in navigating the systems, on clawing my way to some work and juggling the admin to stay in that work.
(6) A part-time mum working in Centrelink or Medicare faces the loss of rights that allow her to juggle work with her family life; her job security is under threat and all for a cut in her pay packet.
(7) As employed women juggle the responsibilities of employment and family caregiving, many experience stress and fatigue from the competing demands on their time and energy.
(8) Similarly: Don't use your toaster as a bathtub toy, don't juggle live hand grenades and never put salt in your eyes .
(9) Luis Suarez will not be allowed to do his juggling seal routine at the Nou Camp, on account of him being banned and all that .
(10) Over in Atlanta, Georgia, Jaha Dukureh, a 24-year-old woman originally from the Gambia, was juggling a full-time job in a bank with motherhood.
(11) And that will no doubt please the leadership, which has to juggle rigorous internal policy debate (sometimes disagreement) with the challenges of striking deals with the Conservatives on every government action.
(12) As any graduate will remember, those years at university were just as much about juggling a melee of friendships as it was about studying.
(13) My husband went to the doctor the other day and a two-minute drive took 35 minutes.” Across the street, Aileen Brown at Eyhorne osteopathic clinic has been juggling cancellations and stranded staff for the past six weeks.
(14) Jeong, who worked as a doctor before switching to acting, will play a brilliant but insensitive doc juggling work and family life.
(15) Such juggling of information demands that the critical care nurse be alert to the subtle changes occurring within the patient, thereby allowing sound decisions based on astute nursing assessment.
(16) But I've heard Evan play changes in his own way just the same (on Monk tunes in a tribute to Steve Lacy for example) and develop a kind of parallel, rhythmically related and appropriately phrased line that isn't juggling the related notes of the chords, but is a fascinating interpretation of the original theme in its own way.
(17) Barry Glendenning juggles a ball and transfer tittle-tattle as he prepares to sit in the Big D-Day Chair.
(18) This week, Victoria was chatting backstage about the "huge juggling act" of working motherhood, and singing the praises of her trompe l'oeil skirt-and-shirt dresses: "It's great to have something that you can just stand in, zip up and go."
(19) Photograph: Sky Sports 8) Spurs to show which league they really want to win When the draw was made for the Europa League last 16 and Spurs were pitted against Borussia Dortmund, Rémi Garde could have been forgiven for thinking that his Aston Villa side may have faced a slightly weakened Tottenham Hotspur team as Mauricio Pochettino juggled the demands of a testing European tie and a Premier League title challenge.
(20) A s if juggling the chairing of this year's MediaGuardian Edinburgh international television festival , becoming a mother and editing ITV News during a general election year were not enough, Deborah Turness is also considering joining a dance troupe.