Sentence examples for contrived emotion from inspiring English sources

You might have thought the press wanted us to forget the overwrought prose and contrived emotion with which it greeted Diana's death 10 years ago.

Real relationships with others, with all the challenges they entail, now tend to be replaced by a type of internet communication which enables us to choose or eliminate relationships at whim, thus giving rise to a new type of contrived emotion which has more to do with devices and displays than with other people and with nature.

Trump, the compulsive tweeter, is a product and exploiter of the digital overload that generates, in Francis's words, "a new type of contrived emotion which has more to do with devices and displays than with other people and with nature," that leaves us blocked from "direct contact with the pain, fears, and the joys of others".

But she ends up contriving emotion with breathy flourishes and fake ornamentation.

Exegesis of Crane grows specious when it imposes logic upon metaphors Crane contrived to evoke emotion and states of mind rather than to convey linear meaning.

It is the story of Puff, a literary public-relations man who has written a preposterous historical melodrama that embodies all the worst features of conventional verse dramas among them bloated emotions, contrived plots, and absurd madness scenes.

Ms. Bruning's "dark parade," a premiere to a melodic string quartet commissioned from Giovanni Spinelli, is less contrived but still substitutes emoting for emotion.

There can be contrived, false outpourings of emotion.

She elicits emotion through contrived death poses using limp bodies, recently vacated.

And, historically, politicians who have shown a flash of anger or resentment have sometimes benefited — even when that emotion is perhaps contrived or planned.

But I can tell you that I'm even more tightly bonded with her now, and that's not because of some orchestrated, contrived effort to plumb her emotions.