Sentence examples for contrived process of from inspiring English sources

Afterwards I remembered who said 'Literature is a contrived process of forgetting': Conrad.

As late as 1969, he remained concerned that "after millions of years of successful evolution, human life is now deteriorating genetically," warning in Life magazine that "we must contrive a new process of evolutionary selection" in order to survive.

When he saw that they carved differently, he contrived a process to rotate the cutters at 10-minute intervals, disguising the medley of touches.

Guillen rightly finds the formality of the interview process contrived.

Some pieces involve carefully contrived illusions of damage.

However, she is still refusing to succumb to the lavish, exclusive and contrived world of celebrity.

A racing chart is a magnificently contrived record of a race that is over and done.

Usually it's contrived, part of the selling ritual.

Finding her drugged, drunk, and bloodied on a back road near his farm, Lazarus takes her in and nurtures her with tough love, in a process of chaste mutual redemption that is as contrived and sentimental as it sounds.

Soon after, he contrived the death of the dowager empress.

Moore and Scruggs contrived a means of exploiting the asbestos issue to their mutual benefit.