For the general concept of artificial see Artificiality. Coppola insisted on building sets to add to the artificiality of the proscenium. The text concerns modern, urban life, and the artificiality of that existence. However, novelist Raymond Chandler criticized the artificiality of her books, as did Symons. His next argument focuses on the artificiality of poetry, drawing upon fellow theorist, Puttenham. Finally, Hume reviews these "laws of nature" and offers three additional arguments for their artificiality. Both instances point to the artificiality of Truman's life as well as the film itself. Their art showed a preference for elegant artificiality. She criticized its artificiality, for example. It can contribute to the understanding of a work, or lay bare its artificiality. It comments on its own artificiality and is quotable. The stiffness, the artificiality, the self-satisfaction of the people. The electorate has worked out the artificiality of it all.