Sentence examples for contrived setups from inspiring English sources

And beaches! -- the movie involves a miscellany of men and women of varying backgrounds, ages and skin tones who laugh and weep through an assortment of contrived setups.

The style was aggressively literal, unromantic, uniform and unnatural in that it showed what were clearly contrived setups, not everyday scenes, sometimes brutally cropped, with an impersonal touch that was the deliberate opposite of Abstract Expressionism.

It's the kind of loopy, contrived setup that a Capraesque touch, sophisticated and warmhearted, might exploit to advantage.

Peyton Reed directed this buoyant homage to Rock Hudson-Doris Day pictures, with its "deliciously contrived setup," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.

But thanks to Ms. Parsons's wry, thoroughly unsentimental performance, and Mr. Coble's mostly sensitive writing, the slightly contrived setup fades into irrelevance fairly quickly.

Peyton Reed directed this buoyant homage to Rock Hudson-Doris Day pictures, with its "deliciously contrived setup," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.

And though the movie (like so many these days) runs on the emotional tangle and expressive frustration that results from not having gotten therapy at once, Van Sant extracts something wonderful from his somewhat contrived setup.

After a deliciously contrived setup, Catcher decides to write an exposé, which he will clinch by making Barbara, who is dogmatically committed to casual sex, fall in love with him.

Often these setups are contrived and ridiculous.

This setup seems contrived in the extreme, and the book opens with an all-too-cute scene featuring the two families greeting their new daughters at the airport.

If the dramatic setup of "The Water's Edge" feels contrived, the emotional responses it elicits from its characters are often engagingly authentic.