Sentence examples for contraption of from inspiring English sources

It is also an enormous contraption of musical ingenuity.

The final product will be a contraption of trade-offs and murky accounting.

The sole telephone -- an antique contraption of batteries and antennae -- almost never works.

In this concert the inspector is investigating the principle of counterpoint, for which he's invented the contraption of the title.

Turning the language of liberation into a contraption of conquest is nothing new: it's part of Liberal heritage.

These vibrations then push on the ossicles, which form a three-boned lever — that Rube Goldbergian contraption of the middle ear — that helps amplify the sound.

'GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG' And now that Robert Lepage has constructed his wondrous technological contraption of a Wagner "Ring" cycle, it is time for it all to come crashing down.

"That's O.K.," Pete said, grabbing a broken umbrella he'd found in the street, a batty contraption of bent spokes and torn black fabric.

Lhakpa gave me the bow, an evil-looking carbon composite contraption of pulleys and cables that has latterly replaced the traditional wooden weapon.

The Rebels is set in a remote provincial resort over two days in May 1918, as the contraption of the dual monarchy is winding down.

Others teetered around in gyroscopes or plunged through the air on contraptions of weights and pulleys.