Sentence examples for contrived for from inspiring English sources

The phrase "contrived for" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means deliberately created for a specific purpose or outcome. Example: The advertisement was contrived for attracting younger customers, with its bright colors and catchy slogans.

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But because nature's contrivances are imperfect, because omnipotence could altogether dispense with contrivances, and because organisms are principally contrived for the mere persistence of the individual or species and not for pleasure or happiness, the evidence not only fails to point to a being of unlimited power, intelligence, and benevolence, it is actually incompatible with it.

The cantilevered balances the performers wrangle one another into are contrived for visual effect, but few of the visual effects are worth the contrivance.

Lots of this is contrived for dramatic effect.

That line of argument seems contrived for debating purposes.

Escapades, not altogether convincing, are therefore contrived for a few of them.

These were not minor works contrived for the secret pleasure of a few like-minded libertines.

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That might be trickier to contrive for Hollander, given that his character is a buttoned-up country doctor.

He was also relentlessly self-deprecating and happy to mock the image that the Hollywood publicists worked so hard to contrive for him.

Norman Crowe seeks to overcome this division into the respective realms of specialists by recognizing the independence of both the natural and the manmade through an understanding of the often hidden roots of the world we contrive for ourselves.

It would be folly to expect him to play like this each time he goes to the crease and there have been innings when he has looked positively inept, managing to contrive for himself an awful tangle.

The actors, led by Karen Eterovich as Austen, are fine, and Ms. Macy contrives for Austen's real-life romance to intrude on the fake Christmas show near the end, livening things up.

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