Sentence examples similar to contrived backdrop from inspiring English sources

Unlike most portrait daguerreotypists of the mid-19th century who were often more concerned with the quantity of their sales than with the quality of their portraits Southworth and Hawes avoided contrived poses and painted backdrops.

It's unconfirmed, but unless he had somehow contrived to punch a wormhole right through the backdrop of the Trump-Clinton debate, political attention was largely concentrated a few thousand miles west of here this week.

"And contrived.

Contrived much?

It's contrived.

Seems totally contrived".

This was not contrived.

"It felt contrived".

It's not contrived.

Completely contrived myth.

It seemed contrived.