Sentence examples similar to contrivance time from inspiring English sources

This contrivance was invented by Mssrs.

Which brings us back to Rudnick's script, undeniably clever yet pervasively self-aware, its contrivances at times threatening plausibility.

They were these strange, high-tech (for the time) electronic contrivances with recordings and earphones that were supposed to help students learn foreign languages.

But Giosta joins them, and through various plot contrivances everyone is redeemed by curtain time.

A plot contrivance forces Alice to return to Underland, this time via a giant mirror.

Simple excitement left this business some time ago, but the excitement of contrivance remained, so the simple excitement was not much missed.

But the performances here are so convincingly present tense that you come to accept scene-shaping contrivances — those too conveniently timed entrances, exits and phone calls — as if life were really that structured.

"The pressure at this point in time is one of time – that artificial contrivance of, well, we must get out of this situation as quickly as we can," he said.

"Adaptation" curses the contrivances of blockbuster filmmaking so thoroughly that by the time it resorts to them, the results are amusing, clever, even wise.

I was going to try to build in this contrivance of it being a work wig and maybe one time when I go to see my daughter, I wouldn't have the wig on.

For this clever contrivance, new fans simply won't have the associations long-time aficionados cherish.