Sentence examples for ingenious contrivance from inspiring English sources

He works with authority in the style of the old movie industry: the style of ingenious contrivance, of theatrical impersonation; the style of costume, of luxury, of café society.

Darius did not believe that he had achieved the throne through fraud but through brilliant sagacity, even erecting a statue of himself mounted on his neighing horse stating "Darius, son of Hystaspes, obtained the sovereignty of Persia by the sagacity of his horse and the ingenious contrivance of Oebases, his groom".

The first Tunny-breaking machine (called Heath Robinson, after British cartoonist William Heath Robinson, known for drawing absurdly ingenious contrivances) was installed at Bletchley in 1943, but it was never entirely satisfactory.

Nawab's house had numerous ingenious contrivances — running water in all three rooms, a duct that brought cool air into the rooms at night, and even a black-and-white television, which his wife covered with a doily that she had embroidered with flowers.

In the ninth century, the Banu Musa brothers, in Baghdad, published the "Book of Ingenious Devices," which detailed many geared mechanical contrivances, and the tenth-century philosopher and astronomer al-Biruni (973-1048) describes a Box of the Moon — a mechanical lunisolar calendar that used eight gearwheels.

The solution is ingenious, bordering on preposterous, and Higashino's skill clearly lies in contrivance rather than characterisation – but the process of deduction is fascinating.

According to the 1615 Caius annals, "[h]e was excellent both in contrivance and execution, nor was he inferior to the most ingenious mechanic in the making of instruments, either of brass or any other matter".

Contrivance is everywhere.

Very ingenious".

And it is ingenious.

But he was ingenious.