Sentence examples for contrived laugh from inspiring English sources

John Whitesell, whose television directing credits stretch back to "Roseanne" and "Coach," blends the film's various ingredients — Billy Wilder, "Fame," TV mystery shows — into a smooth pap, and milks the occasional contrived laugh from the sexual and generational setups.

Latter-day Simpsons is likewise loud, erratic and contrived, and makes one laugh so intermittently that it's scarcely worth sitting through.

He chose, on being appointed professor, to give his inaugural lecture on Thomas Hardy's poetry – and, as always, contrived to extract a laugh or two from this gloomiest of authors.

She whooped, she laughed, she criedAs she contrived each fresh mortality,Numberless lethal times before I died.

Paranormal Activity has some very funny moments -- granted, they're deliberate laughs, and a bit contrived (the boyfriend trying to trick his girl into having sex in front of the camera by insisting "Oh no, that flashing red light is just the battery turning off!").

She whooped, she laughed, she cried As she contrived each fresh mortality, Numberless lethal times before I died.

And beaches! -- the movie involves a miscellany of men and women of varying backgrounds, ages and skin tones who laugh and weep through an assortment of contrived setups.

"And contrived.

Contrived much?

It's contrived.

Seems totally contrived".