Sentence examples for to be contrived from inspiring English sources

All of her confessions, as far as I can determine, seem to be contrived.

There's nothing clumsy about it, nothing appears to be contrived, and it's done by withholding".

In 1610, his part in a court masque had to be contrived to hide his weak legs; a circle of children surrounded him while he danced.

Lawyers for Phil Gormley, chief constable of Police Scotland, said the referral of another complaint after such a time span appeared to be "contrived".

The constraints on the release of energy that enable organisms to do things have to be contrived very precisely to fit their purposes.

Forty years ago, when boxing was not the sideshow it is now, Presidents took an interest in matches of any moment, especially when there was a moral stake to be contrived.

Perhaps most interestingly, Villeneuve and Guzikowski appear to be contriving some metaphors for the "war on terror"; some anxieties buried in the American psyche about just what is involved when interrogation is enhanced.

He suggested cyber-attacks could be contrived to make them appear to have originated from Russia, when in reality they had come from somewhere else.

Its solution, where it can be contrived to occur, is the connection between people, including the most unlikely of pairs.

Such a property was completely outside the competence of Lewis's theory to predict and must be contrived in VB theory.

#SecKerry: Anyone who contends that an attack of this scale could be contrived needs to check their conscience.