contrivance

Example Sentences

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But if so, it’s hardly the only contrivance in a story that teems with hidden identities, secret allegiances, incriminating documents, unexpected weapons and innumerable sly reversals.

From Los Angeles Times

It isn’t much, and it’s hardly enough to keep this contrivance, whatever you want to call it, alive for an hour and half.

From Washington Post

But the main reason “Party Down” transcends the creaky machinery typical of revivals is that it always simultaneously performed and skewered the thirsty pathos and weird contrivances that accompany engineered fun.

From Washington Post

The contrivances let lawmakers claim they are being fiscally responsible while inflicting little pain on voters and contributors with tax increases or spending cuts.

From Seattle Times

He said: “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

From Washington Post