Sentence examples for a contrived plot from inspiring English sources

As for his sudden recruitment by the Syndicate, it has all the plausibility of a contrived plot point in a cheesy straight-to-video movie.

On July 1, probably as a result of a contrived plot, the two Egyptian legions proclaimed him emperor, followed a few days later by the legions of Syria and Judaea.

A more negative review of the film came from Manohla Dargis of The New York Times, who found it "a conventional, wan affair, despite its art-cinema flourishes" and thought that Anna's inability to obtain a visa was a contrived plot point that conflicted with Doremus's attempt at creating realism.

And the program features a contrived plot synopsis instead of a standard explication of the story.

In Parent's world, a contrived plot can feel profound, the cheesiest humor can make you laugh the hardest, and a woman can get what she wants without a fairy-tale ending.

In a contrived plot, it takes Porter an entire first act to open his eyes to the guile that the audience is on to in 10 minutes or less.

An old Russian woman talking about digging up horse carcasses to find meat in the dead of the punishing winter -- as the Germans, trapped by an ever tightening circle of Russians, did the same thing -- is more devastating and dramatic in simple terms than any contrived plot.

Scott Bairstow's guest role was praised, though it was noted that "an ultimately contrived plot and a stereotypical Bible-thumping Southern milieu make for a case more suited to Jessica Fletcher than Mulder and Scully".

Which is why a carefully contrived plot is most satisfying when – as with Bleak House or The Killing – the material is darkest and the characters themselves most perplexed, and why that satisfaction can be as deep as any other response to fiction.

While I do wish the writers had come up with a less contrived plot device than having Mary Margaret feel compelled to risk death to help a dove return to its flock, just to get her alone with David during the storm, the MacGuffin was forgivable since the outcome was so satisfying.

But the picture does not need an elaborately contrived plot.