Sentence examples for contrived situations from inspiring English sources
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.
Much of the paper relies on the notoriously unreliable concept of psychological priming, contrived situations, and extremely trivial stimuli and responses.
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.
Rather than construct and contrive situations, Gilbert preferred a cinéma vérité approach — an observational filming style that values simple recording over complex editorial production.
On the other hand "Candid Camera" planted the seeds for "Survivor," by contriving situations in which people could be "caught in the act of being themselves".
The most common intervention components included (a) echoic prompts and systematic fading procedures (e.g., time delay), (b) positive reinforcement via provision of requested information and/or access to preferred items or activities, and (c) contriving situations to motivate specific questions (i.e., creating establishing operations).
