Sentence examples similar to contrived joy from inspiring English sources

Sure, not everything comes off, but in a TV landscape of carefully contrived sameyness, it's a joy that someone is allowed to try something truly different.

I don't know what is happening right now but it seems that everyone I know is going through a very difficult time and this image embodies the desperate, the weak, the hunger in us all coupled with the joy that can be both real and contrived.

"And contrived.

Contrived much?

It's contrived.

Seems totally contrived".

"It felt contrived".

It's not contrived.

Completely contrived myth.

This was not contrived.

It seemed contrived.