Sentence examples for contrived world from inspiring English sources

However, she is still refusing to succumb to the lavish, exclusive and contrived world of celebrity.

"Olaf is a very original thinker in terms of business and has no ambitions to rise up and gather more titles in the sometimes contrived world of big media," said Joseph Ravitch, an investment banker who became a friend after they did a number of deals together.

In their scrupulously contrived world, there's simply no money in civility, no money in being patient, thrifty and wise.

Working primarily with 16mm film and often employing stop motion or time-lapse photography, Reynolds has developed a distinct filmic language, creating contrived worlds full of powerful pictorial symbols.

The Faustian pacts that contrived a world war a century ago resonate today across the Middle East and Asia, from Syria to Japan.

It stimulates all the senses, and its very unpredictability gives it a vitality not often encountered in our contrived and controlled world.

O'Nolan would later claim that Hitler hated his work so much he had contrived the second world war to stop it.

Glo Sessions's prints are a bit too contrived and Old World looking, though David Taylor's paintings, despite their obvious salute to Willem de Kooning and Karel Appel, are bright and bold.

My life was, in short, defined by a material façade I'd conjured from a world contrived by Madison Avenue and Oprah.

Mr Putin, having contrived to assemble 47 world leaders for a series of international summits to coincide with the city's 300th anniversary, was showing the world the former imperial capital in its full glory.It was the high summer of Mr Putin's relations with the West.

The effect is a distinctly digital creation, layering swatches of bright color behind a model of still lifes, which was initially contrived in the real world. .