Sentence examples for was contrived from from inspiring English sources

The exaggerated hip-hop look was contrived from brand name, off-the-rack clothes in outsize proportions.

A third structure was contrived from spare materials, to serve as a magnetic observation hut.

But though the Olympian was the picture of masculinity, he had been contrived from the mind of a woman as a mechanism of survival.

While he felt the character of Colonel Graham was contrived and seemed to come from another era, Swindoll did think Ian D. Clark did portray the character decently.

Nothing was contrived.

Nothing about it was contrived.

To that extent, then, a frisson of uncertainty has in the end been contrived even from Frankel's relatively cautious tilt at the Qipco Champion Stakes.

But, ahead of the visual particulars of the stereoscopic filming, there's the feel of the film, its very vigor and immediacy, a viewing experience that can't be contrived, but that results from the director's existential engagement with the act of filming — a moral commitment to the moment that Scorsese honors with the daring wisdom of his choices.

Conversations, while earnest and free flowing, are contrived, not dissimilar to monologues from a Don DeLillo novel or a Jim Jarmusch film.

White tells how phoney messages from a mate were contrived - in a lather of galloping horses and lustrous seals - to impress some Franciscans.

But the first four episodes this fall have been contrived and dull -- a startling tumble from the show's gripping, sophisticated heights.