Sentence examples for fairly contrived from inspiring English sources

(The play is thick with complications and revelations, some fairly contrived).

Photograph invokes an idealised nostalgia for small-town days of youth broadly relatable to many but specifically true probably not even to its author, and typifies the cheesily contrived, if fairly benign side of Nickelback.

Nothing too spooky, but contrived to be fairly realistic, a memento of the twentieth century.

This means she can make even contrived material sound fairly natural so when she delivers the line: "I'm like a Jacuzzi, decadent but hygienically suspicious," you can almost forgive her the inherent cheesiness.

But thanks to Ms. Parsons's wry, thoroughly unsentimental performance, and Mr. Coble's mostly sensitive writing, the slightly contrived setup fades into irrelevance fairly quickly.

At a certain point fairly early on, its Chinese-box structure begins to seem overly contrived.

"And contrived.

Contrived much?

It's contrived.

Seems totally contrived".

"It felt contrived".