Sentence examples for contraption and it from inspiring English sources

This is one reason that horror has always been a director's medium: the horror movie is a contraption, and it takes a certain organizational flair to design, pace and frame a scare.

"I definitely went into this thinking it was a big intrusive contraption and it's all a massive nightmare but looking at Jack and his reaction - it's going to change his life for the better".

It has the bright Rube Goldberg energy of one of Jimmy's contraptions, and it resists the common kid-movie tendency to lecture its young audience about individuality, self-esteem or other stuff they hear enough about in school.

They put our group on some kind of contraption and shook it to create a dizzying effect.

On the other hand, she noted, "vibrators were once one of the top five household products!" She pointed out a vintage eggbeater-like contraption, and Dunne eyed it with cautious respect.

An appendix describes an instrument I have built to Ptolemy's specifications (possibly the first of its kind since the second century bc), in an attempt to find out how satisfactorily such a bizarre contraption will work; and it explains how various practical problems can be resolved.

So he could make reasonable suggestions to his student, this teacher tried on Mr. Keplinger's head contraption and tried painting with it.

He considered Christmas a bourgeois contraption and would have none of it.

A crowd gathered as Ignatius Epuwat, Amref's local water and sanitation officer, bent over the contraption and explained plans to repair it.

They're making a contraption, and they're good at it because they know how to make the camera behave mechanically, which is just right here — it mirrors the mechanics of farce.

Some people had never seen the contraption and had to ask her what it was.