artificiality, theatricality, pretension, contrivance, illusionism, staginess, pretentiousness, artfulness, superficiality, conceit, showiness, knowingness, subtlety, didacticism, profundity, sentimentality, verisimilitude, stylization, naturalism, stylisation, pompousness, gimmickry, grandiloquence, sublimity, naturalness, archness, pathos, triteness, grotesquerie, tawdriness, winsomeness, literalness, slyness, monumentality, poeticism, frippery, banality, metafiction, pretense, interiority, insubstantiality, obliqueness, affectation, mawkishness, conventionality, grand guignol, nuance, artistry, pomposity, subterfuge, aestheticism, concreteness, slickness, sentimentalism, whimsy, clownishness, indeterminacy, mise en scene, subversiveness, preciousness, prettiness, pictorialism, salaciousness, attitudinizing, spareness, artlessness, simulacrum, dreaminess, bombast, falseness, guilelessness, sappiness, formalism, abjection, indirectness, absurdity, pastiche, sensuousness, indirection, outlandishness, sleaziness, believability, illusion, corniness, spontaneity, eroticism, vapidity, whimsicality, ethereality, auteurism, facetiousness, ephemerality, inscrutability, cheesiness, hyperrealism, casuistry, realism, wryness, academicism, grotesqueness, impassivity, provocativeness, artifices, finesse, trickery, stratagem, contrivances, ingenuity, ruse, sleight, deceptions, elegance, equivocation, guile, ploys, subterfuges, trick, evasion

uncontrived, unstudied

maneuver, maneuvering, manoeuvering, manoeuvre, tactical maneuver, tactical manoeuver