Sentence examples for contrived stories from inspiring English sources

"If law enforcement purposely provides half-truths and contrived stories to conceal even the existence of a C.I.," Ms. Cross-Goldenberg said, "there is no check on the reliability of confidential informants and no way for courts to determine whether the information provided was sufficient to justify the actions undertaken by law enforcement".

Exactly right: just as the classic-age stars' private lives were kept under wraps by publicists, many crucial aspects of life overall were kept off the screen by censors — and the genius of the system was to make the stars as well as the extensively sanitized and contrived stories seem, somehow, real at the same time as they seemed bigger than life.

Much about the new season feels like it's been beamed in from Opposite World: The characters labor in service of contrived stories, rather than the stories subtly adding to our understanding of the eternally misguided Bluths.

Not only does "The Hurricane" distort history, it also loses control of its own contrived story.

Like Martin Amis's "Time's Arrow," this novel is based around a narrative gimmick that might sound clever initially, but that results in a hokey, contrived story line.

And while Unbreakable has the same languid, creepy feel as The Sixth Sense, it suffers from a much more convoluted and contrived story line.

37. Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe (1904) This entertaining if contrived story of a hack writer and priest who becomes pope sheds vivid light on its eccentric author – described by DH Lawrence as a "man-demon".

Our tour began with a 1940's docu-drama video with a contrived story about shipbuilding but fantastic footage of a wooden-hulled, diesel-powered fishing schooner being built by hand, with axes and adzes.

A better book, for instance, might have omitted "1.7 to Tennessee," a slightly contrived story about an eighty-nine-year-old woman whose son had died in Vietnam, and who sets out to walk the 1.7 miles from her house to the post office, with an antiwar protest letter for President George W. Bush.

We were presented with a contrived story--an absolute lie.

De Lacroix found Carlivati's storyline "disgusting", stating that it was exploitative, misogynistic, insulting to the audience, and "the most phony, stupidly contrived story I have ever seen".