Sentence examples for contrive ways from inspiring English sources

Keynes argued that the government could stimulate the economy by burying bottles of money in abandoned coal mines and letting private entrepreneurship contrive ways to dig them up.

Trouern-Trend contrived ways to spend a lot of time at each spot.

Even as a sports reporter, Lipsyte contrived ways to write about race.

While series like "The West Wing" and "The L Word," which also included deaf actors (well, Marlee Matlin), contrived ways to have hearing characters translate each scene, in "Switched at Birth" there is often no one to do the translation.

In recent years, conservatives have contrived ways to obtain government money for religious entities, and the lawyers representing them are receiving an ever more sympathetic hearing at the Court.

The very ambitious were contriving ways to recover tractors and cars half buried in the shingle, but most were happy simply to sift the debris and choose the odd item.

Instead, I contented myself with the TV close-ups, and have delighted throughout the championships in the endlessly inventive, if sometimes hilariously contrived, ways in which the commentators weave sudden shots of this or that celebrity into their analysis of the tennis.

Big stakes will be constructed, in laborious and sometimes contrived ways.

It's a brilliant, if contrived, way to protect his pride.

Table 2 shows one rather contrived way to do this (using an unbounded list of courses and students).

The randomness of the "real world" is choreographed in Sofia Hultén's three video works in a more mischievously contrived way, as the artist films her family preparing to spook each other.