Sentence examples for contrived situation from inspiring English sources

Making Mr. Walker's contrived situation even more so, the thief decides to drop in on his mark, and the dysfunctional quartet gets to match wits with him.

The deliberately contrived situation in Karen Ostrom's "He Saw What She Thought," in which the same person (presumably the artist) poses as two characters, is derived from the false movie stills of Cindy Sherman, which are by definition theatrical and self-conscious.

Hysong et al. [2] suggested a business game training approach where a business game is a contrived situation, which embeds players/learners in a simulated business or project environment where they must make management-type decisions such as resource allocation from time to time besides teaching interpersonal skills like communication and conflict management.

Despite the contrived situation, they grew absorbed by the clothes.

Could I support the use of torture in some contrived situation?

In a contrived situation she becomes desperate for money; Kidder lends it to her and before long is exacting his price.

And despite his occasionally contrived situations, he rightly dreads a Coney of corporate chain logos and upper-class condominiums.

Mr. Hooks of "He's the Mayor" needs more than a cute face and contrived situations to stave off cancellation.

And so we're left watching this stranger ricochet through contrived situations that vaguely resemble the Hepburn films, escorted by a man (Brian Sutherland) who materializes out of nowhere for no apparent reason.

This has generally resulted in highly controlled but also contrived situations in sterile university laboratories at the cost of losing ecological validity (Blascovich et al., [2002]).

Studies of the real world are messy and rarely allow for controlled experiments, whereas social experiments in laboratories are expensive and involve contrived situations.