Sentence examples for become contrived from inspiring English sources

Things become contrived and cerebral.

And what was once considered cool and cutting edge can quickly become contrived and slightly ridiculous.

It was good fun, but after a while the audience expected us to destroy our equipment and drag each other around, and it became contrived.

It's only in this latter phase of the novel, too, that Donovan allows his metaphysics to become overly contrived.

In the more recent films, most of them made outside Poland, the symbolism has become slightly contrived and clumsy (the telephone voyeur of Red also manipulates, also plays God, but his symbolic presence crushes his real self).

I don't know why, or how, trainees become so contrived, so complicated.

While at first it was comforting to know that others were going through the same struggles as you – even big stars with all the help in the world at their disposal – it's become tiresome, contrived and largely unhelpful.

While at first it was comforting to know that others were going through the same struggles as you – even big stars with all the help in the world at their disposal – it's become tiresome, contrived and largely unhelpful.

Traditional media has become incredibly contrived with overly produced or biased shows so it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the antidote to this world of fakery is watching content by genuine people that their audience can relate to.

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

But "Housewives" becomes more contrived as it goes along, its themes overwhelming its characters.