Sentence examples for on contrivance from inspiring English sources
Yet the novel depends on contrivance to let Cora's story unfold so neatly.
The father-son plot — the story's motor — is stickier, occasionally relying on contrivance to move ahead.
In the third portion of the novel -- which belongs to Sylvia, the daughter of Johnny's second wife -- the narrative picks up speed, despite the author's overreliance on contrivance and coincidence to set events in motion.
Perhaps only an editorial policy determined to capture "the real thing" (a phrase of William Shawn's as well as of Henry James's) with "casuals" light on contrivance and melodrama would have embraced stories as wryly minimal, as poemlike in their deceptively uninflected realism, as O'Hara's.
The traditional idea, seen at its best in, say, Pushkin's "Queen of Spades", or Maupassant's much maligned "The Necklace", tended to rely heavily on contrivance to achieve its effects – ghosts, coincidences, characters suddenly going mad, priceless jewels turning out to be fake, and so on.
Written by the impressive Abi Morgan ("The Invisible Woman," "The Iron Lady," "Shame"), "Suffragette" also leans heavily on contrivance.
Actually, you could well argue that what I was missing actually was the element of contrivance on which so much theater depends.
Hence its greater gaiety and ease of contrivance, its (on the whole) superior finish, and its flattering air of speaking to the reader who, himself presumably educated, may be spared the obvious.
The Twist and Phil Spector's Wall of Sound were on the horizon: great pop music, but built on the contrivance of spontaneity.
But they also reveal how heavily Ms. Diffenbaugh relies on plot contrivance.
They may be listened to for a long time -- much longer, say, than Mr. Guy's first commercial-breakthrough comeback in 1991, "Damn Right I Got the Blues," which relied on the contrivance of guest appearances, by stars like Eric Clapton and George Thorogood.
