Sentence examples for contrived pretext from inspiring English sources
This could potentially be a contrived pretext for military intervention, just as we saw in Crimea".
Cooper tells them the other employees do not know yet, and were sent home on a contrived pretext.
"No one is fooled by what could potentially be a contrived pretext for military intervention, just as we saw in Crimea".
"No one is fooled by what could potentially be a contrived pretext for military intervention, just as we saw in Crimea". Kerry met with President Obama on Tuesday to discuss several issues, including Ukraine.
Failing to engage with its ideas, its premise, and its characters, the movie devolves into a seemingly haphazard sequence of actions that turns the drama into a series of set pieces, as if borrowed from Agatha Christie, that thin out the ranks of the crew one by one and maintain an illusion of inventive variety by contriving different pretexts and methods for disposing of them.
Though the makeup of these films is essentially the same as porn (man meets woman under ludicrously-contrived pretext, man fucks woman), the difference lies in what they showed or, indeed, didn't show.
The New York Times Caroline Elkins felt that the pretext of the novel "initially feels contrived", but assessed that "in a world full of turpitude and injustice, it is [Sarah and Little Bee's] bold, impulsive choices that challenge the inevitability of despair, transforming a political novel into an affecting story of human triumph".
