Sentence examples similar to contrived manipulation from inspiring English sources
The tools most marketers employ are too expensive, vulnerable to observation and manipulation by competitors, contrived and unrealistic, or simply incapable of providing the information managers really need.
Hector, with his mythic name and his almost surreal imperviousness to injury and physical pain, sometimes feels more like a symbol than a human being, and the deaths that pile up around him including those of his father and several girlfriends can feel contrived, like the self-conscious manipulations of an author intent on exploring the equation of fate and free will.
Observers reckon that the result was largely achieved by a massive but cleverly contrived fraud, in particular through the manipulation of the voters' roll to exclude people likely to back the MDC.
A big part of manipulation is learning how to master your emotions and make other people receptive to your contrived feelings.
Seems totally contrived".
Completely contrived myth.
