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  • Anticipating by more than eighty years Nietzsche's summary judgement of Western thought as so much "Egyptianism" (35), Schelling characterizes the systems of his contemporaries as "vain artiface," and scoffs at the monumental tombs that they have built in the name of a "dead philosophy seeking the essence of things in forms and concepts" ( "Ages" 90, 89).

    Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy 2000

  • To break down the artiface that builds around us in day to day interactions, to smash the barriers that are constructed by the social roles we take, to bridge the moats dug deep to protect us from those hurts borne early ever being borne again.

    Latin Dave Hingsburger 2007

  • They conflate conceptual poetry with conceit, with artiface.

    Avant Lyric, a few observations toward an essay, part one Lemon Hound 2008

  • They conflate conceptual poetry with conceit, with artiface.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Lemon Hound 2008

  • Commit an artiface burglary against a pensioner, or any other vulnerable adult and get the MAXIMUM sentence for that offence, not the minimum.

    The Wolf Who Cried Boy « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2006

  • I've met people who I think may be very very cool down there underneath all that artiface, all that pretense.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Dave Hingsburger 2006

  • Without the usual campaign artiface or spin, with surprisingly little superstar wattage or lofty rhetoric, he said what had to be said.

    Harold Pollack: Can America Recognize Greatness When it Sees it? 2008

  • I've met people who I think may be very very cool down there underneath all that artiface, all that pretense.

    Foiled Dave Hingsburger 2006

  • To be authentically ourselves and to be rejected as such is the basis, I believe, of a desire to live a life crafted of artiface.

    Being Real Belinda 2007

  • The enjoyment unfolds ... slowly, like a flower just blooming, soothing and sensual in its scent and hold upon you ... eyes drift to gaze without artiface or design, simply drawn.

    October 26th, 2003 mynxii 2003

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