In its whole conception, Washington is an ideal capital for the United States-not least typical, perhaps, in its factitiousness, since this Republic is not so much a product of natural development as a deliberate creation of will and intelligence.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
The ignorance of technique which they often show is not nearly so disheartening as the palpable factitiousness of their product.
"The Editor's Relations With The Young Contributor From "Literature and Life""
William Dean Howells
He steadfastly refused even to read the Russian masters, to his immense loss, as I tried to persuade him, and even among the modern Spaniards, for whom he might have had a sort of personal kindness from his love of Cervantes, he chose one for his praise the least worthy, of it, and bore me down with his heavier metal in argument when I opposed to Alarcon's factitiousness the delightful genuineness of Valdes.
"Entire PG Edition of The Works of William Dean Howells"
William Dean Howells