artfully
Adverb
Meaning
In an artful manner; with art or cunning; skillfully; dexterously; craftily.
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It's refreshing to see a woman who can artfully weave her individuality into an otherwise safe ensemble.
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.
It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.
His face and arms are so artfully disguised as to be invisible. I kneel beside him. "I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.” Peeta smiles. "Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.
I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.
You look like any other brainless jackanapes,” he mused, "but apparently there's some gray matter left in your artfully coiffed skull after all.