Sentence examples for contrived act from inspiring English sources

Was it all a contrived act?

Though the film regards the Commander as Kate's class enemy and forces her into a contrived act of rebellion at the story's end, it also allows her a convivial friendship with her oppressor.

The C.M.A. performance gave lie to many ideas about what country "authenticity" even means: playing with Timberlake might have been considered by some to be a contrived act of sacrilege, but instead it sounded like the realest thing of the night.

Small rivalries loom large in such worlds, and private, elaborately contrived acts of getting even become major diversions.

Victor Borge, who has died aged 91, was not the first comedian to have contrived his act from sending up or mutilating serious music.

And these flat-price collectives are now contriving to act in concert.

Those seduced by the dreamy intimacy of Sean Bobbitt's cinematography may find the third act contrived, as realism gives way to archetype, but the performances remain utterly believable throughout.

Whether or not these explosive devices were ever actually operable remains a matter of dispute, just as it remains a mystery that the enemy — if as powerful as portrayed — has not contrived a single terrorist act on U.S. soil since 9/11.

Its Wall Street and Silicon Valley sponsors baptized it the JOBS Act, a contrived acronym for Jumpstart Our Business Startups -- claiming that it would increase jobs.

His plots are not cleverly contrived games but deliberate acts of cognition, in which persons are stripped of their accumulated disguises and forced to acknowledge their true selves, for better or worse.

There is nothing human about these beasts, because every harmful act is carefully contrived.