contrivances

Example Sentences

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“We Live in Time” is also chock-full of contrivances.

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2024

Flat-footed contrivances, compounded by hackneyed humor and stereotypical targets, contribute to the sense that the play is always a beat behind.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2024

Some readers will rue the absence of reality-warping plot contrivances, unreliable narration and metafictional devices.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023

Mischievously self-aware, it points to the contrivances that uphold modern romance, the games of scheming and flirting that we find so pleasurable and easy to play along with, despite their phony and potentially regressive underpinnings.

From New York Times • May 9, 2023

Adams had spent most of his retirement years denouncing such contrivances as gross distortions of history.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis