Sentence examples for contrived plot device from inspiring English sources

While I do wish the writers had come up with a less contrived plot device than having Mary Margaret feel compelled to risk death to help a dove return to its flock, just to get her alone with David during the storm, the MacGuffin was forgivable since the outcome was so satisfying.

For a playwright who indulges in flagrant forays into sentimentality and contrived plot devices, he steers remarkably clear of a partisan view or a moral dialectic.

An outrageously contrived plot twist doesn't help as the storyline stutters.

And there are contrived plot complications.

But the picture does not need an elaborately contrived plot.

Still, its contrived plot touches on a real concern: the limited longevity of opera singers.

The contrived plot concerns a boxer-trumpeter and a singer trying to escape the confinements of the Crescent City demimonde.

These loose strands don't tie in satisfyingly with the con game, and the story jumps from one contrived plot point to another.

It's as if these allusions had been lacquered onto the story to compensate for its more sensationalistic and contrived plot twists involving sex, lies and videotape.

Of more interest was the suspenseful Conflict (1945), which starred Humphrey Bogart in an overly contrived plot that nonetheless allowed Bernhardt to create moody visuals.

But four years later, in one of the dumbest and most contrived plot twists ever conceived, we discovered that she had merely killed a paramedic dressed up as Myers.