Sentence examples for contrived ending from inspiring English sources

The contrived ending does no harm.

It is distractingly, disproportionately engorged with technique – all leading to a contrived ending.

Written and directed by David M. Rosenthal, it feels mostly authentic until a contrived ending that leaves a saccharine taste.

I once angered Peggy Ashcroft, herself a famous Juliet, by saying I thought this was a defective tragedy: that a tumultuous first half was followed by a contrived ending depending on the faulty postal service.

Even if Shaw made similar points a century ago in John Bull's Other Island, Jones's play sharply satirises American cultural imperialism: my only doubt concerns her play's tricksily contrived ending.

She and the middle-aged, down-on-his-luck reporter Mikael Blomkvist made quite the odd couple, and their chemistry fueled that earlier novel, driving it through its hurried, contrived ending.

Some 30 years later (1745), J.F. Lampe revived the book as a "mock opera," complete with rage aria and contrived happy ending.

They struggle to stay together despite the constant intrusions and objections of their parents, but their lives take some harsh turns, including Deanie's suicide attempt and institutionalization. Splendor in the Grass refuses to provide the kind of contrived, happy ending that one might expect, and its sobering story line creates a number of dramatic sequences for its talented young leads.

It's to Chandor's credit that he contrives an ending that is both graceful and dramatic without lapsing into melodramatics.

Any hopes of a result being contrived were ended by the final day weather.

We warned you about this two years ago but here's James Howard Kunstler saying the same thing only way more sciencey (and with a totally contrived happy ending).