Contrivance

Even when it falls into a bit of a common narrative contrivance to create some conflict, you are still able to go with it based on the endless charm that is just bursting free from every single frame.

However, Fred instantaneously falling head over heels for Velma was a plot contrivance too far, even for this self-consciously silly show, and the subplot felt utterly unnecessary.

It added that the Youth Council was a strange non-existent mischievous contrivance for narrow personal interests.

Without spoiling anything, while the film reaches for “Scream”-style twisty ingeniousness, its denouement just feels like labored contrivance.

Every rhyme is somewhat of a contrivance, yet the challenge is to use them in a way that they seem natural, intrinsic to the song, and unforced.

First, there was some peak producer contrivance with dates explicitly arranged to stir up drama.

In the midst of such contrivance, you really believed him.

It feels like a contrivance rather than part of the grand scheme Dabi claims it is.

It’s this emptiness in Charlotte’s life that provides the perfect contrivance to place her in Anning’s company.

This sets up the plot, in a rote way, but we learn so little then or later about what went wrong in the marriage we can hardly process the situation as anything but pure dramatic contrivance.

Also re-doing the same arc is Violet, as a plot-contrivance causes her to re-experience her school-shyness and love/hate relationship with powers all over again.

It is also instructive for the new chairman to understand that Nigerians are no longer inclined to sophistry, illogical arguments, deceits, contrivance and recourse to abuse as a method of campaign.

A meal is planned for the holiday, to which La Ramée, second in command of the prison, is invited, and by which contrivance, the Duke is able to escape.

And continues, “I have labored to divert the thoughts of my readers with something of a designed contrivance..

A recurrent criticism of inflation is that the invoked inflation field does not correspond to any known physical field, and that its potential energy curve seems to be an ad hoc contrivance to accommodate almost any data obtainable.

By a mechanical contrivance the throne followed Solomon wherever he wished to go.

Furthermore, since the wind varies in direction and the axis has to follow its changes, a wind vane or some other contrivance to fulfill the same purpose must be employed.

He speaks in a distinctive squawking voice, produced by a contrivance known as a swazzle or swatchel which the professor holds in his mouth, transmitting his gleeful cackle.

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.

The burning glass was a useful contrivance in the days before electrical ignition was easily achieved.