Sentence examples for contrived stress from inspiring English sources

Alternatively, Chlorohydra may actively expel their endosymbionts, although this phenomenon has only been observed under experimentally contrived stress conditions.

But his story, about arrested development and second chances, is awfully familiar and surprisingly sentimental, and a plot strand about an Iraq veteran with post-traumatic stress feels particularly contrived.

This one offers a compelling (if somewhat contrived) story about a world-class string quartet that's showing stress fractures after 25 successful years.

In the eight minutes that remained of the ceremony, the candidate contrived to mention the President's schedule four more times, always stressing how very busy it must be.

"Things seem to have contrived against us," said Saunders, who is on a rolling contract and stressed he wanted to stay on.

Becker stressed that the process of formulating new history to supplant the old is organic rather than contrived; it comes from the bottom up, not the top down.

"And contrived.

Contrived much?

It's contrived.

Seems totally contrived".

"It felt contrived".