Sentence examples for plot contrivance from inspiring English sources

But they also reveal how heavily Ms. Diffenbaugh relies on plot contrivance.

As luck (and a convenient plot contrivance) would have it, Dave is a grave digger.

A plot contrivance forces Alice to return to Underland, this time via a giant mirror.

(A plot contrivance? Maybe, but Barthelme's writing is so good I'd follow Elroy to a paint-drying festival).

In an absurd plot contrivance, Ernani, beholden to Silva for protecting him from the king, pledges to take his own life whenever Silva demands it.

It's as if some higher power were governing their destinies – or as if writer Peter Morgan were outrageously pulling the strings of Dickensian plot contrivance.

Sometimes its plot contrivances make it hard to take seriously.

You may also find yourself newly conscious of plot contrivances and improbabilities.

But Giosta joins them, and through various plot contrivances everyone is redeemed by curtain time.

But not before farcical maneuvers and satirically intended plot contrivances are out of the way.

And his novel is so readable and tidily constructed that, initially, you barely notice its increasingly improbable plot contrivances.