Sentence examples similar to contrived sentiment from inspiring English sources
It's the difference between, say, presenting your lover with a generic Hallmark card with your name hastily signed under someone else's contrived sentiments, and composing them a heartfelt poem in your own hand on expensive paper.
Manners are stylized, settings are conventional, and the plot is highly contrived; but the sentiments of the characters are highly refined, and the psychology of their relationships is sharply analyzed.
The Txtr's A-Z, a dictionary compiled by Andrew John, points out that mobile texting literally puts a price on waffle, while "ingenious abbreviations have been contrived to capture a vaguely philosophical thought, a loving sentiment or a beautifully crafted obscenity".
Lipatti wrote that when you practise, you must be careful about injecting any sentiment into a piece: rehearsed time and again, it becomes mannered and contrived.
For one thing, Verdi took longer than Puccini to achieve his aesthetic modulation; more important still, Verdi all his life had contrived to put into his music from time to time a healthy virility which kept him from the gushy sentiment of the worst parts of Puccini.
Seems totally contrived".
