In particular, petitioner's practice of accounting for expected future service expenses in advance could have been found purely artificial by the Commissioner.

There was much wrangling about indemnities, reparations, securities; and the division of the whole continent into two hostile camps persisted, though by then it was purely artificial and sentimental.

For Marx and Engels the existence of such a stage, or something like it, seemed essential in order to show fully the purely artificial and relative nature of both relations of production and private property in capitalism.

The impact of the years was not as great as he had supposed; much of the unfamiliarity was purely artificial.

The kernel of the story lies in Orson's upbringing and wildness, and is evidently a folk-tale the connection of which with the Carolingian cycle is purely artificial.

If psychotherapy produces nearly the same brain changes as pharmacotherapy, then the boundary between mind and brain is purely artificial - even unnatural.

Cranston might be masking the workings of a scheming mind and Shiloh's snarly pose could have been purely artificial, but Jud didn't see it that way.

When Sally sings, "Maybe this time I'll win," the hope is purely artificial, and she is more eloquent about a doomed culture's masochism than anything in the show around her.

The obstacles in the way of his desire seemed to him purely artificial, and yet he could see no way of removing them.

Apparently these are too high a form of Me, for they will not live in our purely artificial mediums.