Sentence examples for rather contrived from inspiring English sources

She is officially released from slavery in 1834, but more emphasis is put on her unlikely and rather contrived transformation from downtrodden slave to empowered free woman.

For example, if a user has joined three groups on a social network, there is a limited overlap between the groups' membership lists, and those lists are public, it may simply be a matter of working out who belongs to all three groups.This sounds rather contrived, but it works in practice.

Although this scenario may seem rather contrived, we can model many common social interactions as instances of Prisoner's Dilemma.

Raymond's sensual artwork for which the artist particularly "studied popular illustrators," including pulp artist Matt Clark, whose work Raymond's male figures particularly evoke —outshone its borders and "attracted far more loyal readers than... [the] rather contrived and unconvincing adventure stories" his work depicted.

First, the assumptions made in Section 2 are rather contrived from a modeling point of view and one would like to consider more complex transitions e.g. gradual transitions between recognizable but not necessarily strictly homogeneous zones.

This could be smoke and fire of a rather contrived and theatrical kind.

"Apparently they would rather contrive a political issue than foster a genuine discussion about the future of our country".

The winners, based on fan votes online, come in some rather contrived-sounding categories, like best fight, best kiss and best moment of cognitive dissonance.

I could make more of this rather slender, contrived courtship.

Monet did share with Manet, however, a concern for representing actual scenes of modern life rather than contrived historical, romantic, or fanciful subjects.

She also handles the shifts in time-frame well, and knows how to feed information to the reader in a way that feels natural rather than contrived.