Sentence examples for contrived scenario from inspiring English sources

"No, this is a pleasure," said Mr. Davis, who had not been informed of our contrived scenario.

Compared with following instructions or focusing on a contrived scenario, simply watching a film could provide an "effortless" way for patients who are unable to communicate to show that they are tuned into their surroundings, she says.  .

But with five wickets down and the home side swarming, this was also a far cry from the contrived scenarios he has been facing in the nets.

Sheila Nevins, HBO's executive vice president for original programming and the show's executive producer, deems herself an extremist (actually a Peabody-winning extremist with a $20 million programming budget) piqued by extraordinary, but never contrived, scenarios.

You could not have contrived a scenario better calculated to destroy public faith in American institutions".

Gove had a crackpot idea that he and Leeming should appear together, both dressed as some kind of rat, and jump off a high diving board into a swimming pool, and he had offered me a bonus, out of his own pocket, if I could contrive a scenario – somehow related to the week's news – that would convince the producers this would be a good idea.

But it's also important to say that the central dramatic principles of his work have remained static, and that many of his movies revolve around insanely paranoid scenarios, contrived to bring Mr. Eastwood up against a procession of louts, bureaucratic prisses and outright psychopaths whose very existence seem to challenge his potency.

However, the specific scenarios were somewhat contrived and do not represent realistic user behaviour.

Although this scenario may seem rather contrived, we can model many common social interactions as instances of Prisoner's Dilemma.

Such a scenario appears to be too contrived to apply to many genes.

The scenarios in these papers are somewhat contrived (trolleys and such), but they have real-world analogues: deciding whether to fire a loyal employee for the good of the company, or whether to donate to a single sick child rather than to an aid organization that could save several.