Sentence examples for contrived for him from inspiring English sources

The television name Moe and his United States Alpine compatriots contrived for him was less happily received.

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

Aue is simply too much of a freak, and his supposed childhood trauma too specialized and contrived, for us to take him seriously.

He goes with her to her home in the south of France because he has grown bored with his life of debauchery in Paris, and winds up staying with Léa for six years, until Mama Charlotte contrives another plan for him -- one that will ensure her a handsome pension.

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

Like, say, Barry Hannah and Sam Shepard, Mr. Johnson creates characters who are often articulate but connected to conventional society by a frayed tether, and he contrives for them a language of colorful metaphors and oblique or otherwise idiosyncratic logic.

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.

His performance gives a show that often seems too coldly contrived for its own good a feverish emotional center.