Sentence examples for contrived artifice from inspiring English sources

The contrived artifice of Shakespeare's mature comic plots is the perfect foil against which the reality of the characters' feelings and attitudes assumes the greater naturalness.

It is not planned in as much detail as a stratagem, is less contrived than an artifice and does not have the coquettish quality of a wile.

Ahmet's interest in paradox and anomaly and incongruity had led him very far into artifice and contrived juxtaposition, until there was serious doubt whether there was raw material enough left in the music to satisfy his interest.

1934) defines "device" as "(t)hat which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; project; scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice," and "contrivance" in pertinent part as "(a) thing contrived or used in contriving; a scheme, plan, or artifice". In turn, "contrive" in pertinent part is defined as "(t)o devise; to plan; to plot..

"And contrived.

Contrived much?

It's contrived.

Seems totally contrived".

"It felt contrived".

It's not contrived.

Completely contrived myth.