Sentence examples for a contrived scene from inspiring English sources

In Rogers, the court held that the copyright in the plaintiff's photograph Puppies, which depicted a contrived scene of the photographer's acquaintance, Jim Scanlon, and his wife on a park bench with eight puppies on their laps, protected against the defendants' attempt to replicate precisely, albeit in a three dimensional sculpture, the content of the photograph.

We learn this in a particularly contrived scene: Sitting in first class, on their way to Paris, Kevin's father reminisces that the only vacations he took as a child involved driving the family Dodge to visit his grandpa in some backwater village.

And that is what Jeff, Who Lives At Home Is; contrived scene after contrived scene at an attempt to make you feel some sort of whimsical posi-vibes.

In one carefully contrived scene, Camila even gets to deliver a slap to the face of the Marines -- in the person of a timid gringo suitor.

Obedient state television showed contrived scenes of police officers and sniffer dogs walking up to small piles of shiny grenades and handguns, nestled like Easter eggs in the grass.

Ms. Lively does not lay the emotional groundwork for the book's ending, and worse, she delivers the final revelation about Kath in a contrived "Psycho -like scene, in which a heretofore unheard-from friend of Kath's abruPsycho -likescene mysterins of her life and death in a tidy, trite summation.

By carefully contriving scenes irresistible to television cameras, the candidates sought to guarantee themselves a hefty share of the coveted time on local news programs.

What readers tend to remember from McEwan's fiction is its penchant for contriving scenes of awful catastrophe: human dismemberment in "The Comfort of Strangers"; a confrontation between a woman and two deadly wild dogs in "Black Dogs"; the tour de force balloon disaster that brilliantly opens "Enduring Love". Nothing in "Amsterdam" quite measures up to these events.

I should have reserved for 1 p.m. Apparently, though, Ms. Baranski didn't feel the need to contrive scenes, least of all small ones.

It's not a contrived thing.

A contrived, dramatically unsatisfying rouse!