Sentence examples for contrived shock from inspiring English sources
Surprisingly, the show has the opposite effect: the coolly cerebral space reinforces the distinction between the usual contrived "shock" art and these genuinely shocking amateur snapshots.
In a pop landscape full of contrived shock and ghostwritten soul-baring, Palmer's the real deal.
The usual party of preening, self-promotion, contrived shock and giggly titillation was supposed to start after that, but it didn't get going until the show's surprise finale: the return of Guns N' Roses.
In more affluent times, when public higher education was fully funded this discussion about the merits of MOOCs and automated grading software might make more sense, but in the current era of scarcity and contrived "shocks" to the system with the aim of privatizing everything possible we might want to slow down a bit before charging down the path that Very Serious People are dragging us down.
Her demeanour – the gruesome hairdo, the tight temper, the voice – is contrived to shock.
Happy now?) Then she brought the grotesquerie latent in all make-believe to luxuriant, noxious flower, effacing or eliminating her presence in scenes carefully contrived to shock.
Contrived human dramas -- from shock culture wrestling to "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" to scores of adventures on the Internet -- are successfully competing for target audiences.
In fact, the whole situation was contrived: there were no actual shocks, the lottery was fixed, and the Learner was a confederate of the experimenter.
