Sentence examples for but contrived from inspiring English sources

Her contrivances are, in this reading, anything but contrived.

But this place feels anything but contrived.

More like Christmas at Lord & Taylor's - beautiful but contrived.

"What'd I Say" and "Hit the Road Jack" were rousing but contrived.

Nothing too spooky, but contrived to be fairly realistic, a memento of the twentieth century.

They are about breaking past surfaces, toward an intimate, aesthetic transcendence" — but contrived.

It's ostensibly the tale of his recent jury service, but contrives – amid the mindbending gags and eccentric stylings – to imply some opaque metaphor for Acaster's hankering for certainty, and loss of Christian faith.

Beautiful but entirely contrived.

But he contrived a little magic.

But Liverpool contrived not to recruit those barmy qualities.

But the contrived script drains the show of energy — solar or otherwise.