Sentence examples for contrived device from inspiring English sources

It's a somewhat contrived device, but it has several advantages.

If this seems a rather contrived device, Bate is soon using it with characteristic craftiness.

It's a contrived device, but within its narrow parameters, lively, funny speeches locate the humor in panic and desperation.

She criticized the ending for seeming "contrived".

The episodes in Porter's life are constructed around a painfully contrived framing device.

This wildly contrived framing device allowed Taymor to play fast and loose with our hero's origin story, which she intertwined with the Greek myth of Arachne.

While I do wish the writers had come up with a less contrived plot device than having Mary Margaret feel compelled to risk death to help a dove return to its flock, just to get her alone with David during the storm, the MacGuffin was forgivable since the outcome was so satisfying.

For a playwright who indulges in flagrant forays into sentimentality and contrived plot devices, he steers remarkably clear of a partisan view or a moral dialectic.

There he discovers a species of wild swan able to carry substantial loads, the gansa, and contrives a device that allows him to harness many of them together and fly around the island.

The voice he found with Tortilla Flat was not his own at all - it was a Hispanic voice, and in order to make it seem authentic, Steinbeck contrived a strange device.

Knight demonstrated a knack for tools and invention from an early age, and she was said to have contrived a safety device for controlling shuttles in powered textile looms when she was 12 years old.