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Example sentences for: contrived

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These mock-rivalries were contrived to attract publicity and promote sales--surely, that's true of the rap wars, too.
The example was contrived to illustrate exactly this point: that sometimes we cannot select a site that fits our needs and thus the method is not appropriate.
"The way Salinger handled the publicity he said he did not want was a bit too contrived to get attention itself," Paul Alexander concludes at the end of his new biography.
No mention of the flabby plot with its contrived deaths, no taking to task for the overworked prose--Ayemenem is just too far away.
USA Today 's Mike Clark looks at the film's chilly reception and points out that "one suspects that this atypically 'little' Schumacher movie might get better reviews if it were a starless, low-budget indie that could catch viewers by surprise" and adds that "though formulaic, [it] plays better than other equally contrived genre hybrids."