contrivances

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2024

The contrivances of the situation are inescapable, despite the scrupulous honesty of the performers in director Michael Herwitz’s charged production.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2024

Although not technically a two-hander, “Clarkston” has some of the contrivances inherent in that form.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2024

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