artfulness

artful | American Dictionary

artful
adjective
us/ˈɑrt·fəl/
intelligent and skillful, esp. in persuading, sometimes without being completely honest:
His politics was an artful blend of high-minded patriotism and malicious gossip about his opponents.

artfully

adverbus/ˈɑrt·fə·li/
The machinery is artfully concealed in a polished cabinet.

Examples of artful

artful
He was a wilful virtuoso, yet an artful manager of men, happy to trade on the superstition of others.
At one and the same time intricate, artful, and accurate, they spoke authority.
An artful contrast is thereby developed between two homophones denoting the speaker's material substance and the male protagonist's spiritual character.
In many ways it is almost easier for them to deal with an artist rather than an artful architect.
He remarks that it is one of several such recurring themes in the opera, treated 'often with striking harmonic turns, or in artful juxtapositions'.
We see just how far it had come since its days of artful dreams.
Through composing this image of rationality and ethicality, psychological expertise can promise to make authority simultaneously artful and wholesome.
Sustaining legitimacy is the most difficult part of governing because it requires the most artful engagement with the public and elites.
These may be useful shorthand, but they do not do justice to that ' artful dance ' which is hegemony in practice.
The process of versification was however also involved in these changes as well as the phrasing of the source and some seem artful in nature.
How do we explain this artful interplay of voices and sub-varieties in the radio advertisement, clearly representative of many others?
The music makes them coincide exactly, creating an artful and meaningful simultaneity.
Change comes about, then, by the artful reconfiguration of existing resources.
These often generate extended repair sequences which include code switching, laughing, and artful variations in pitch, volume and voice quality.
Chemistry's disciplinary focus on artful practice, in other words, was carried by the very structure of its synoptic tables.
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