Sentence examples for contrived impact from inspiring English sources

The study "pulls the rug out from under the contrived impact hypothesis quite nicely," says Christian Koeberl, a geochemist at the University of Vienna.

Our expectations have been heightened by Ben's withholding, and the effect of the moment's impact feels ultimately contrived.

The act ends with a scene that is obviously contrived but makes a tremendous impact: the wedding before the court of Léonor, who wrongly believes Fernand has learned the truth about her, and Fernand, who shortly thereafter does learn the truth but wrongly believes she deceived him and resolves to return to the monastery.

So his death, as a result of a chain of circumstances that seems somewhat contrived, doesn't have the impact that a more highly anticipated (hoped for?) demise would have.

Delicate, clear and ringing at the same time, beautifully floated without being winsome, the emotional impact coming from understatement rather than anything contrived or overdone.

Similarly, the current study did not seek to examine either the perseveration of the acquired bias, or the impact on emotional reactions to real or contrived stressful experiences.

Combined peening factors by Kim et al. are applied to the 3D symmetry-cell originally contrived by Meguid et al. To describe the feature of multi-impacts, concepts such as FE peening coverage, impact sequence and cycle-repetition are introduced.

This was partly a case of finding the right time for the gentle acoustic reveries, though she has had a remarkable impact on a new generation of solo artists, most notably Katie Melua, who wrote "Faraway Voice" about her and last year contrived to duet with Cassidy on her Christmas single, a cover of Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World".

"And contrived.

Contrived much?

It's contrived.