Sentence examples for contrived one from inspiring English sources

Ned Beauman is right to raise the recent dispute between Razorlight and The Kooks; an example, if a contrived one, of rock's chequered history of violence.

Real net neutrality is good for the consumer and good for India's competitiveness but not the contrived one, which is being proposed by some big players who want to establish an oligopoly under the guise of net neutrality.

Real net neutrality is good for the consumer and good for India's competitiveness but not the contrived one, which is being proposed by some big players who want to establish an oligopoly under the guise of net neutrality.

But that was only in contrived, one-shot lab studies.

Swift becomes a cog in the pop music machine, delivering contrived one-liners as frigid synthesizers and booming trap beats explode around her, courtesy of Max Martin, Shellback and Jack Antonoff.

And why in fabricating a fictitious name for her family does she contrive one that only faintly might be Jewish.

Furman's opinion offers a detailed and searing narrative, a tale of government deceit that paints a stark picture of top government officials contriving one version of events for public consumption while keeping the real story to themselves.

For the most part it feels like a cynical stab at exploiting the current mania for steakhouses in Manhattan by contriving one with an especially costly conceit and more gimmicks than all of the others combined.

It is no accident that one non-literary meaning of "plot" is, as the OED has it, "a plan or project, secretly contrived by one or more persons, to accomplish some wicked, criminal, or illegal purpose; a conspiracy".

It was a reminder that everything in a documentary is contrived, even one with a fancy HBO imprimatur.

A subplot about Franco's gambling debts feels contrived, like one of those dubious byways cooked up by writers in the later seasons of a series, when inspiration flags and the characters' interactions have begun to go stale.