Sentence examples similar to contrived illusion from inspiring English sources
Some pieces involve carefully contrived illusions of damage.
Some homeless people contrive the illusion of owning property by bundling found and mostly useless material into great aggregates that they load onto shopping carts or other wheeled vehicles.
So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction".
The Americans first "contrived a way of producing an illusion of motion through successive images," but "the French were able to transform a scientific principle into a commercially lucrative spectacle".
An artist has contrived to lure me out of myself into an illusion of reality more fulfilling than any lived reality can be.
The late paintings of Willem de Kooning, for example, look like marvels of effortless spontaneity, yet de Kooning constructed his paintings slowly and methodically, and he contrived a variety of crafty techniques to achieve that illusion of unpredictable, all-natural grace.
But why would an employer make sure those protocols are actually set in place when they can just give the illusion of a happy work environment through contrived reviews?
Mr. Thompson creates an illusion of enigmatic seriousness by ploddingly spelling out themes -- art versus science, truth versus illusion -- then smudging them with bits of contrived surreal humor and artsy incongruity.
In the past, no matter how contrived a pop record was, its goal was to present the illusion of a real performance.
