Sentence examples for quite contrived from inspiring English sources

Along with a lot of other people, my on-stage persona is quite contrived in a way.

Speaking in Dublin, he said that he took exception "to a quite despicable lobby that's going on" over the case and said there was "quite contrived reaction in some quarters".

But the result is not as terrible – or quite as contrived – as you might fear.

So far, perhaps, so wilfully old-fashioned; but the world outside is quite as contrived and confused as the interior of Judith's bedroom.

Blunt and Segel work together very nicely, but the downside is that when they are apart, the film loses a bit of fizz: their separate lives are quite as contrived and absurd, but quite not so funny and interesting.

Money and vanity -- nothing new just never quite as contrived.

MR: (laughs) Do you think there could be any type of show of the same vein that could develop and showcase talent with a process that isn't quite as contrived?

The study "pulls the rug out from under the contrived impact hypothesis quite nicely," says Christian Koeberl, a geochemist at the University of Vienna.

The contrived antics don't quite do the illustrious cast justice but were charming enough to prompt a sequel.

In one quite amazingly deft movement he too contrives to wiggle into the minute room.

Indeed, Sen was criticised for contriving cinematic situation not quite fitting to the real world, "Can a married woman with a baby in arms fall in love with a total stranger that she meets on a very short bus journey, however extraordinary the situation may have been?