The staging and the sets, Mr. Crowther complained, were "patently artificial."

The resulting images are fierce, colorful, grainy, a bit preposterous and patently artificial.

However, through some uncommonly persuasive acting and skillful direction the patently artificial plot stands up surprisingly well.

Here Ms. Cowin's sense of mystery and her patently artificial style combine with a particularly compressed energy.

And a seamless highway built of stone, patently artificial, came out of the hillside and stretched away across country.

By proposing this ingenious but patently artificial contrivance, Friedman was able to account for the non-neutrality of money in the short run.

It was a proper response, but the smile that Denoriel produced to go with it was patently artificial.

They are decorative and patently artificial.

She compromised with a patently artificial smile, followed by a light kiss on the cheek.

Then, after a certain amount of patently artificial small talk, he asked me if I knew where he could get a gun.