What is "artificialities"

Usage examples of "artificialities".

His high ideal in literary art and his self-respect inspired him with an invincible repugnance toward the artificialities of style of that period, which the romanticists--above all, Chateaubriand, their master--had so much abused.

The artificialities of a thousand years of civilization rose up in horror against such a thought.

Renson retorted, "except for artificial shortages created by the artificialities of the econo-war!

Prettily, she traded amusing rococo artificialities with her partners.

Her lonely girlhood had bred in her an absolute frankness towards herself and other people which made it difficult for her to understand or tolerate the little artificialities of society, or the trivial weaknesses of her own sex.

In the midst of this, these two incongruous, artificial figures, inert and disharmonious, the elder like a gray lump of dough touched up with rouge, the younger looking as if the vitality of her stock had been sapped before she was conceived, so that she is the expression not of its life energy but merely of the artificialities that energy had won for itself in the spending.

The two were parted by so vast a social distinction, and, let Nature say what it will, the artificialities of life are wont to prevail.