Sentence examples similar to contrived institution from inspiring English sources

Few institutions contrived by man have endured so long.

"A corporation is about the closest thing to a totalitarian institution that humans have ever contrived," Noam Chomsky said to me in his cool, matter-of-fact way when I interviewed him for this article.

The government has erected contrived legal barriers in an effort to close the institution, a graduate school devoted to liberal values and based in Budapest.

You could not have contrived a scenario better calculated to destroy public faith in American institutions".

"And contrived.

Contrived much?

It's contrived.

Seems totally contrived".

This was not contrived.

And it feels contrived.

It seemed contrived.