Sentence examples for brilliant contrivance from inspiring English sources

But his personality was always a brilliant contrivance, practically a work of art: improvised, self-revising, full of feints.

Through all the brilliant contrivance and literary panache comes a profound sadness, looking with tenderness at peculiar humans.

Some thought his theories contained brilliant insights, while others regarded them simply as perverse contrivances.

She takes up impetuously with a number of ill-suited men, and in the play's most dubious contrivance becomes obsessively worshipful of a astrophysicist, a brilliant woman who happens to be on the lam because she has a habit of murdering men.

The contrivance begins to control Leibovitz instead of the other way around, as is the case in her brilliant business as usual.

Sonya joins TV's now extensive sorority of high-strung but brilliant workaholic female detectives, who stalk through shows like "Bones," "Homeland," and "The Fall". But she has a jarring air of contrivance, at least so far, and there's a structural hokiness to the way the show keeps alerting us to some tragic hidden backstory.

Contrivance is everywhere.

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.

Electro prizes contrivance and superficiality.

This was, frankly, a contrivance.

"It is a political contrivance.