Sentence examples for as contrived from inspiring English sources

Her own book becomes as contrived as the ones she is lampooning.

The Big Things I'm talking about aren't as contrived as Russell's bonce, but equally adored.

Indeed many recent urban "infill" projects now feel as contrived as suburban master-planned communities.

It's twice as contrived as anything on her Instagram account, but it looks twice as real.

Even so, the family's secrets feel as contrived as the play's regionalism — a corny mint julep laced with Valium.

There is real roughness, and there is, well, Prada roughness, which is as contrived as any opulent architectural detail.

In reality, the "Kosovan crisis" was as contrived as the Iraqi "WMD crisis" of four years later.

But he must know that the latter is just as contrived as the kind of fictional dialogue he professes to dislike.

After all, quite a few literary masterpieces spend much of their turgid wordage being almost as contrived as any crime novel you've ever raced through.

This seems as contrived as the scenes from 9/11 injected in the novel-in-progress written by one of the weekenders.

And in the case of the current presidential campaign, some clashes between age groups are as contrived as the groups themselves.