Sentence examples similar to contrived mistake from inspiring English sources
After a phone call with Kavanaugh, for instance, Senator Orrin Hatch, of Utah who once characterized Anita Hill as "too slick, too contrived"—said of Ford, "I think she's mistaken something". He later speculated that she is "mixed up" in her memory of the assault; it must have been committed by someone else.
Don't say that your biggest mistake is being a perfectionist – this appears contrived or insincere.
That's despite one of the more neatly contrived premises the genre has seen in recent years: boy mistakes girl for his blind date, girl runs with the charade, hijinks ensue.
What some Western observers mistook for true conflict between them was for the most part a carefully contrived balancing act.By the summer of 2011, the emptiness of Mr Medvedev's promises had become apparent.
From the first frame, it was as clammily contrived as anything that Paramount had shoved him into, and in one pathetically insensitive sequence Grant and Rogers are mistaken for Jews and held in a concentration camp.
Seems totally contrived".
