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Sentence Examples The story does seem hermetically contrived, as if written for the stage, yet it turns out it is based on a true story. For a movie that seems contrived as a backdrop for madcap hilarity, there's precious little hilarity to distract you from the backdrop. Although the situations are often ridiculous, the gags don't feel overly contrived. The whole thing's coated with a sugary Gen X slackerness that, for probably the first time in five years, doesn't seem silly or contrived. A nasty, overwrought contrived thriller about a woman suspected of bumping off her appalling husband. At times his work gets bogged down in its own abstract acrobatics, becoming contrived and overwrought. He is simply too much of a freak, and his supposed childhood trauma too specialized and contrived, for us to take him seriously. It was as if the claimant's complaint had been without any merit at all, as if it had been contrived. To me, the classical skiing that we have now feels a little unnatural or contrived at times. They're never overly clever with anything that they do, chord progressions and bass lines are hardly contrived. The outside shots of the hospital during a thunderstorm look impressive, but the fire visuals are as artificial as the contrived resolution. According to the students, false memory syndrome was merely a legal defense contrived by accused perpetrators. Even if you discount the improbability of such poetically contrived melodrama, there are difficulties with this. Over the past five years, each have contrived to reduce the events to farcical levels, at least once. The film is modestly and precisely made, but combatively, with genuine and not contrived feeling. Spoken entirely in Latin and Aramaic, it is contrived, opaque and incomprehensible. His suggestion of a British Day, along the lines of Independence Day in America, is too contrived to have appeal. The plot is contrived in a lot of places and uses some lazy devices in others. Spade offered them a contrived story about this all being a put-on to make them look foolish. Ghost lineages are frankly a contrived solution, a deus ex machina required by the cladistic method. Show More Sentences He clearly did not want another plan for his assassination to be contrived. Its plot is more contrived and seems to be a little bit rushed towards the end. The student had fabricated the story and, as it later appeared, contrived the voice of the second source as well. This is a hugely refreshing exhibition, inspiring in its honesty and lacking the contrived feel of so many group shows. We contrived a number of chances to claim the biggest scalp of all during that game, but a couple of individual errors cost us dear. Save for contrived laboratory studies with bacteria and fruit flies, it cannot be witnessed. Here, however, several contrived situations are grafted into the plot to generate artificial tension. This may seem contrived, but essentially the same argument can be given in a more natural form. Just when one thinks the Justices might zig, they zag, but whichever way they turn, their reasoning seems increasingly arbitrary and contrived. For all its cartoon, show-tune feel, it doesn't sound contrived, forced, or gimmicky. Although it is fairly contrived and full of coincidences, it never feels forced or silly. Though supposedly posing a test of survival skills, the desert-island situation was rather contrived. Three years later, he wrote Skinner a letter artfully contrived to arouse his interest in the painting. Most religious painting of the time depicted the Holy family or the saints in a contrived, idealised way, full of piety and grace. Acts 2 and 3 are a bit more contrived in their plot machinations but still hilarious. He finds their look contrived, their music empty, their songs too samey and their CD overhyped. As undeniably praiseworthy as the performances were, detractors argued the film seemed contrived for shock value. To complete his tapestry of interwoven plots, the resolution had to be brilliantly contrived. I said it was because I believed in the theatre as a figurative art, not something contrived on the back of an envelope. In a tiny lane contrived alongside that terrible scene his wife, more temperately than he deserves, alerts him to his insane action. Show More Sentences The actors enter and exit through an archway at the rear of the stage, reminding the audience of the deliberately contrived nature of the play. The words are taken from 1984 and consist of a third-person analysis of a hypothetical, endless, and contrived war between three superpowers. Depending on your mood, you'll enjoy it as a sobbing tearjerker or loathe its sugary, contrived and maudlin morality laid on with a trowel. It doesn't miss an obvious, telegraphed joke, but never comes up with an instance of humor that isn't contrived, plotted, or stale. The projects themselves were trivial, closer to a test contrived by a college fraternity than a business school, and that was the point. And both locate the main action in a peculiarly stylised family home, isolated in an equally contrived semi-rural landscape. A poor script with bad dialogue and a cheesy, contrived family crisis doesn't help her much. The striker's explosive dash past Bob Malcolm midway through the second half deserved better than the weak finish he contrived to produce. But any significant new insights into that strange, perverse Jacobean tragicomedy contrived to pass me by. I don't know anything about any curse. It sounds like a lot of contrived rot to me. Though the exposition is convoluted and a lot of the plot details are contrived, I kind of dug the story. The seemingly haphazard arrangement of pavilions was a contrived effect, it can be seen as a stand against the Beaux Arts tradition. The main drawback of the novel, however, is that it seems in places contrived. The format must be manipulated and contrived to prevent anything extemporary or natural from happening on the screen. Twice the big Englishman was presented with a gaping goal and the perfect ball but twice he somehow contrived to miss the target. While Simon the cute, violin playing, trilingual young lad is pretty good, his two red-haired cousins are contrived and mostly painful. Then Millwall, who had not contrived a single shot on goal, had the temerity to equalise. We are breaking free from our completely contrived preconception of how things ought to be. With a lead clenched less than firmly in his sweaty palm, he then contrived to play a dog of a game in the middle of the second set. The mood board should point towards one style, or maybe two, but you don't have to stick to one theme or it may begin to look contrived. Show More Sentences Thus a contrived dichotomy between human rights and national security has been artificially orchestrated. It is much more likely that the relationship between the siphon and the absinthe was contrived by the artists. Call it a drama, if you insist, but there isn't enough and all of it is contrived, unbelievable and lifeless. It is hard in retrospect to think quite how we contrived to slalom through last week. Together they constitute an unhackneyed commentary on a creative force who contrived to remain both forbidding and inescapable. Clumps of native bush have given way to uniform rows of trees and contrived water features. This little man had contrived for himself some little power, which he used badly, because he was small, and because he hated his smallness. A useful distillatory apparatus has been contrived by Joseph P. Remington for recovering alcohol from weak percolates. Man is a product of nature, the argument runs, but societies are contrived by men. Many believed that the smooch was contrived for the camera but the identities of the sailor and the nurse have remained an unsolved mystery. Despite spending near enough the entire time at the sailing club, I somehow contrived to only sail once. They would rather deal with technology than with philosophy, tackle contrived situations than trigger debates on the nuances of film images. This was no contrived presentation of foreign exoticism to satisfy some state-granting agency looking to spice up multicultural awareness week. Nothing in the musical treatment is contrived, pretentious or remotely precious. But the meeting point of the post and the crossbar contrived to deny them what would have been a well-deserved lead. The 24-year-old Burroughs, an advertising whiz-kid from the age of 19, has never been anything but contrived. In restaurants, as in theater, patrons pay for a lush, contrived setting replete with stagey scenery and sophisticated lighting techniques. Harris rejected such an ahistorical and artificially contrived formulation of African studies. All workings here are contrived so that the full corves are put down an inclination and the empty ones up. While some hate-watch, others watch for the fairy tale, no matter how contrived or how damaging it is. Show More Sentences Other critics cite stock characterization, weak plots, and contrived endings. This theme is played out through a dozen strangers who become related by artfully contrived coincidence. Matthews creates works that successfully straddle the line between contrived arty flourishes and successful accidents. Of course Martha will resurface, via a rather contrived encounter with Nicholas, and of course Regina will have to decide. Be natural, be yourself and your conversation won't sound contrived. It reminds us of McSweeney's for its effortless appearance, although this is disingenuous, as both are of course just as contrived as the glossiest of fashion quarterlies. Bone was a highly competent managing editor, and contrived somehow to squeeze us into the tumultuous Post office. Or, worse, they are contrived to sound tired, perhaps in an attempt to come off as world-weary. We are constantly bombarded by whining from the right over its contrived war on Christmas. However, it wasn't all plain sailing for the hosts, who contrived to make Peterhead look like world-beaters with plenty of unforced errors in the first half. The death of William, his only legitimate son, in 1120 in the wreck of the White Ship brought Henry's whole carefully contrived edifice tumbling down. Personally, the silly, contrived plot comes as a welcome relief. Despite the contrived jollity anent the election result last May, Liberal Democrats are not so completely out of touch with reality as to be deceived by their own propaganda. Because her poems are not strained or contrived they are devoid of the madding pursuit of the intellect or craft, which kills many of our modern poets and their poetry. Revivalist texts tend to highlight the selective and often contrived aspect of narrativizing history by placing an emphasis on material objects associated with the past. Public transit does not function in this kind of contrived environment. The white staff laid down by the Duke of Somerset was given to the new earl who contrived to remain Lord Treasurer until his death, twenty-two years later. Like the earlier film, this one has a miserably contrived plot. This perception of immediacy can he misleading, for interviews are highly contrived public performances, providing ample opportunity for self-promotion and blague. She emerges more contrived and unspontaneous, more starchily unfeminine. Show More Sentences Listeners were invited to vote for their favourite example of over-the-top sportscasting from a list of 10, some so appallingly contrived that you felt they must be spoofs. Whatever he was doing, he contrived to give place to the contrary pattern. This is a dramatist whose art consists of little more than pulling a string of cliches from a cast of stereotypes in an utterly contrived setting. As a result they contrived and fabricated a way to remove me from the company which they believed would relieve them of this contractual commitment. In short, it was silly, funny, competent and only moderately contrived. In 37 minutes, his astute pass left him with just the keeper to beat but the striker contrived to plank his shot against the advancing keeper's legs. I do not think these coincidences were consciously contrived. Fragments are always contrived into a structure of continuity and context. Expression of the firm's history is contrived through design of the lobby. It is something that cannot be contrived in normal circumstances. Both are real and ancient things, ignored by those who live in a bubble of artificial laughter and contrived wit, but alive to those who meet them in the everyday. My idea of a game, first of all, is that it represents a subset of the rules of Life, or an artificially contrived set of rules that represent something else entirely. This is an authentic confessional, full of self-corrections and digressions and commentary on itself, without ever feeling contrived or artificial. How could it be that in a situation as artificially contrived as a television studio, you could get this frank and free discussion between two people? Though its outcome could be considered contrived, the plot is woven with skill, leaving us always anticipating when it will pick up and proceed with another thread. Sures must have had tongue in cheek when she contrived Ghirlandina, a cast-paper relief of an old, crooked, leaning tower, wonderfully abraded and polychromed. In this case, their activity would be considered as gainful work, provided the activity did not appear to be deliberately contrived to meet the scheme's requirements. The world rang with stories of his romantic bravery, his gallantries, his eccentric manners, and his political intrigues, for he nearly contrived to be elected King of Poland. No matter how contrived the circumstances involved, he alone gets to change, while those around him must settle for dying nobly on cue as Gatling guns chew them to bits. I have to admit that it amused me to know that the previous day, Chelsea, for all his prodigally spent millions, had contrived to lose 2-1 at home to Bolton Wanderers. Show More Sentences Cassady's situation has the ironies of a contrived novelistic denouement. Charles' investiture as Prince of Wales in 1969 may have seemed like the enactment of some ancient ceremony, but it was contrived for the occasion. The heroes of most epic poems, in particular, can be seen as symbolic and fictitious figures invented and contrived by poets to convey religious and political ideals. By far the most blatantly contrived element of the play is the happy and neatly accounted for ending, with a stereotypical Hollywood double wedding scene. In some places, the use of more colloquial language seems to work and not detract from the original gospels, but in other places, it came across to me as contrived. More to the point, in falling over itself to honour dignity it's all rather morally simplistic and in several instances, stagily contrived. The oddities of pregnancy are regularly mined for gags, but thankfully not in a contrived box-ticking fashion. The characters struck me as fanciful, and the plot was contrived. The Ryan-Romney ticket has its answers, contrived and unconvincing. How contentful the whole life is of him, that neither deviseth mischief against others, nor suspects any to be contrived against himself. While I was in the nuthouse, I contrived a couple palindromes that can only be called psychotic. Cornily contrived set-up in a moronic spin-thebottle variation on Shane Meadows' immaculate Dead Man's Shoes. Opinions of these poems vary between those who find them captivating and brilliant, to those who find them merely clever and contrived. It is a term of political convenience, a nice-nellyism contrived and promoted by those in power. A simple and accurate form of sphygmometer or arterial pressure gauge contrived for clinical use. How she came upon this ability is part of a back-story too contrived to get into here. These molecules were carefully contrived to help us understand the basic rules of replication. Power and riches appear then to be, what they are, enormous and operose machines contrived to produce a few trifling convenencies to the body. Compared to Elvis, avuncular Bill with his ludicrously contrived kiss curl was a wrinkly. Spend any amount of time with Ghersi, though, and there's nothing about him that suggests any reclusiveness or contrived mystery. Show More Sentences First thing you gotta have is some sort of confounding unfounded prejudicial spew and contrived agenda aimed at humanity. They not only forswore dopping themselves, but also contrived to make the National Party forgo a dop. To guard against floods, a series of defences against the water were contrived. He was almost over again four minutes later but contrived to carry the ball over a shallow in-goal area. The story is schematic and contrived rather than palpable and lived. One careless gesture, word, or movement caught and blown up over TV could destroy a carefully contrived image of presidentiality. An undignified quest, as daffily contrived as any Doris Day comedy, entirely redeemed by the scatty Miss Faris. That is a Pulp flush with Sparks and glossy 80s pop balladry, making nods at Spandau Ballet and Ultravox without the influences being contrived or too knowing. This amplifying effect, known as stochastic resonance, has recently circuits in a number of electronic circuits and in specially contrived laser systems. The words in Figure 3 contain no contrived examples, no questionable neologisms, no regionalisms and no disyllables trying to pass themselves off as monosyllables. What is destined cannot be contrived by the human intellect or foreseen. The Purusa Sukta was contrived by the brahmins at a much later period of time to perpetuate the deranking of the sudra tribe of the ksatriya varna. We are far more apt to yawn than to weep as we make our way through this series of loosely connected incidents, of unmotivated actions, of contrived metings-out of justice. Some pickthank contrived to let the little great man know what had taken place, and he, so she informed me, was ungenerous enough to wreak a mean revenge. Examples from Classical Literature Why is one-half our consumable product contrived for consumption that yields no material benefit? How Gerald and Tod contrived to do their lessons amidst it was a marvel to every one. To-day she had contrived to pick up some geranium blossoms, scarlet and pink. Margarita had contrived to gain my interest by the assiduity of her attentions. By this time they had contrived to make the cellar a little more comfortable. When Fred had him tight, he caught one of Jock's straying arms, bent it slowly behind his back, and contrived a hammerlock. The rebels installed themselves in the city of Bayamo, which for several weeks they contrived to hold against the enemy. Fortunately, however, the greater part of it contrived to escape, and to reach Berbera in safety. If he had betrayed them, yet he had so contrived that they should not suffer by that betrayal. But so cunningly contrived a mizmaze was never seen in the world, before nor since. The compass was neatly contrived of the cup of an acorn, through the bottom of which ran a hedgehog's prickle. Mrs. standish made a furious gesture, but contrived to refrain from speech. By some subtle process she contrived to imbue the baby also with this idea. Jean Cornbutte contrived to surround this part of the pipe with some metallic canvas, which is impermeable by heat. If every imposture be his work, why should he not act through those who have contrived it? I trusted to the little scene I had just contrived to prepare the mind of the czaritza for this intimation. She made no reply, but took from a pocket a bezant, and contrived to throw its yellow gleam in the sentinel's eyes. The branks was a species of iron mask, with a gag so contrived as to enter the mouth and forcibly hold down the unruly member. A ploughman who contrived to gallop ten miles for him did not get home for a week. With the aid and abetment of a bottle of excellent Montrachet, however, one contrived to worry through. Show More Sentences Freshly made and still moist cappelletti, little hats, contrived out of tasty paste, may be had in any Little Italy macaroni shop. Tyler had ignored the warning and somehow Kelso had contrived to wreck the trawler. The best of them he contrived to deal with himself, secretly and surreptitiously. The passing note of a bird or the scent of a flower may be enough to upset a most admirably contrived plan. They contrived, by abridging both rest and labour, to give him constant attendance. Also I noted the absence of the Mixer and wondered how the host had contrived to eliminate her. The glass of the compass got broken one night, and we contrived to mend it with adhesive tape from the medicine-chest. These motives, if they ever existed at all, were but secondary with the conspirators who contrived Riccio's death. The nation is a monitorial school, wonderfully contrived for the education of the people. So I contrived to unloose my braces and with them tied up the snake's mouth. Even without appearing as an equestrienne you have contrived to be exiled and repudiated. He contrived, with some oil and the soot of his lamp, to fabricate a sort of ink. How had this subterranean vegetation contrived to pierce and overgrow the summit of the country? Composing verses in the vernacular Gaelic, he contrived, by vending them, to add considerably to his finances. But he contrived to attach two clever rascals to himself, who helped to prolong the fraud and to victimise the public. Mademoiselle Deschamps, who was only a figurante, contrived to get on with a salary of only sixteen pounds. Who, then, was this bold lady who contrived so cunningly to ensnare in her toils the wariest man in France? Cope was now shunned by many, and the clogger contrived to dodge out of his sight whenever he passed. And all this floorage was so contrived as to keep the moisture of the mould from running away through the arches. Milady, during the passage had contrived to untie the cord which fastened her feet. Show More Sentences The end of Aegisthus himself is contrived with Sophoclean art. Hillard contrived to smuggle him on the private yacht of a friend. Garson contrived to present an aspect of comparative indifference. And so, by dint of alternate coaxing and commanding, he contrived to get them all once more enclosed in their separate dormitories. That is how Jesse Trefusis, a poor Manchester bagman, contrived to be come a plutocrat and gentleman of landed estate. Many ways of clamping the tire to the rim have been contrived. More than likely some of them had contrived a way to get a dinner. Mrs. Pendarves also contrived to be on good terms with both. How they contrived to keep themselves alive is more than I can imagine. Who contrived the first copperplate press ever seen in this country? In this way Vigneau contrived to fire several batches, and lived for the first year on bread that was hardly won by the toil of his household. He contrived to keep the stone cold by packing it in a box of Dry Ice. How he contrived to eke out subsistence was difficult to conceive. Nicholas bell is a good deal the worst one that has been contrived yet, and is peculiarly maddening in its operation. Their buildings, although very rude and simple, are not inconvenient, but well contrived to defend them from all injuries of and heat. Guarding themselves by the sound of running water, they set out for the river, and by slipping and sliding contrived to get down to its bank. One or two of their number had contrived to obtain an air of scholastic gravity by wearing spectacles. He contrived, in the true tradition of 'Arry at Margate, to look at once startling and commonplace. In spite of the clearest directions, Miss Bartlett contrived to bungle her arrival. Tom contrived to scarify the cupboard with it, and was arranging to begin on the bureau, when he was called off to dress for Sunday-school. Show More Sentences Goodfellow had contrived to cajole his host into the promise of a box of Chateaux-Margaux. The Holy Alliance had been contrived for just such circumstances as these. They contrived no clever devices to hoodwink our moral nature. The Benton Harbor refuge was a catacomb, the entrance of which was cunningly contrived by way of a well. The plan, so ingeniously contrived, pleased the fancy of the boys. The pigmy had contrived to ingratiate himself into every man's affection. His mother had been a Miss Trotter, of Chicago, and it was on her dowry that the Runnymedes contrived to make both ends meet. He contrived to say it so offensively that jumbo flushed with anger. She made a wide circuit on the grass, so as to turn gradually and meet her sister without exciting suspicion that the meeting was contrived. Captain Jim contrived to give his sunflower compliment the delicacy of a violet, and Anne wore it proudly. They had contrived happily to get hold of the topgallant halyards. However, the two 15-year-olds' spirited exchange is wrongsided by a creakily contrived tune. This gaffer contrived to 'bilk' all the turnpikes in the kingdom. Colonel Ellwell contrived to mystify the people a little as follows. She contrived to reach Holland, and established her family at Utrecht. But he contrived to charm us, after all, till we cheered him vociferously. Pedantically you'd note how Saul appears to carry two pairs of glasses with him, and on top of that Aileen's suicide is incredibly contrived. James Wentworth lingered behind, and contrived to look at the portmanteau. Eschewing the contrived set-ups and happenstance of most romantic dramas, this one ventures into all manner of unexpected places. She told me her nurse could do it in half the time, and, by keeping up a constant fidget of impatience, contrived to render me still longer. Show More Sentences Perceiving that a stray sunbeam glimmered down upon his face, the lady contrived to twist a branch aside, so as to intercept it. She smiled again, turned, and walked away, leaving George to reckon up all the social solecisms he had contrived to commit in the space of a single moment. She husbanded her money, with the utmost frugality, and contrived to save even a few sous daily, out of her own wages, to add to her grandmother's stock. This deficiency, however, his ingenuity supplied, for he contrived a kind of half-helmet of pasteboard which, fitted on to the morion, looked like a whole one. I contrived one now which commended itself to all, for it promised well. It felt that, in spite of all possible pains, It had somehow contrived to lose count, And the only thing now was to rack its poor brains By reckoning up the amount. Without one overt act of hostility, one upbraiding word, he contrived to impress me momently with the conviction that I was put beyond the pale of his favour. Find more words! 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