| This contrivance has aesthetic consequences or is associated with aesthetic shortcomings. |
| Through the insidious contrivance called inflation, they could effectively transfer a portion of the oil fortune into their coffers. |
| In our scheme of things it matters not, or it is of no import, whether the people intervene by accident of fate or by way of contrivance. |
| It's a flimsy effort, but oddly, to me, so much more real than anything I've put on this here digital contrivance. |
| But nature, by means of a curious contrivance, has rendered it impossible for men to remain eternally apart. |
| But ultimately all that action, superbly choreographed and balletic, is only a contrivance and nothing more. |
