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He contrived a new engine that does not use gas.
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie-deliberate, contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
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But the one he killed contrived to sort of give him a dig and there it is - a spot of blood.
I contrived it.
I contrived what I called my bomb.
Contrived by a tricky Mother Nature!
The episode in the crypt and all the others. they were planned, contrived.
Evidence so obviously circumstantial prejudiced and contrived making one innocent man a scapegoat.
Very well, then, I hold here in my hand 130-some-odd pages of contrived and utterly preposterous, totally unmotivated.
I've already heard from Senpachi here. all about the little trap you contrived. so that the innocent Shimazo would be condemned to die.
As I was telling you, even though that deluded rector has in literal effect closed the church to me I have contrived to maintain proper service to the Lord in my own home.
He is a phantom contrived by the wickedness of men whose only purpose is to deceive or set them against one another.
I, I don't know. L, I used to be into drugs and I was very heavy on drugs, but now it seems like it's almost contrived.
It's been contrived to look like a building site, and so far no one's realised it's operational!
How is it that you've contrived. to make the garden so empty of people?
I have contrived a dance based on this philosophy.
The most unusual aberrations assembled under this tent! Contrived by a tricky Mother Nature!
Interrogated, tortured, His leg, finally in plaster sentenced to death, under an assumed name he contrived to escape.
You contrived to introduce arsenic into my curry which I find unforgivable, by the way knowing that you would be called on to deal with the aftereffects.
Very clever, but completely contrived and fraudulent.
Yet you contrived to escape with your life.
I improved on the usual method of abortion. I contrived a new one.
Paulo had died at the age of 83 over a telephone arrangement he had with a nightclub manager whose girls contrived to give Paulo excitement over the phone.
The entire incident was contrived.
This blackmore contrived to escape from their lair. he knows their plans.
Which you conveniently contrived.
If they were the police, surely you would have contrived to keep close to them?
Though in the trade of war I have slain men yet I hold it very stuff o'th'conscience to do no contrived murder.
Eventually, after Tycho's death Kepler contrived to extract the observations from Tycho's reluctant family.
Yet, in spite of these careful arrangements she contrived to spend the night with a third party.
This is the new gun these people have contrived.
I've tried to do seIf-portraits before. but they always turn out so contrived, Iike I'm trying to be some version of myself.
And, of course, our instruments contrived in an age ignorant of miniaturisation.
Contrived to have you win the Medal of Honor.
Clear your mind of paranormal junk and think about what was physically possible, however trite or contrived it may seem.
This whole spectacle has been contrived and stage managed by a man whose only goal is absolute power through torture and.
News and current affairs
The United Kingdom, with its contrived rationale for fiscal austerity, was not much better.
No matter how contrived, these political alliances are revealing: they highlight Russia's political decentralization from which there now appears to be no turning back.
In other words, their arguments were systematic and contrived, not at all original to the circumstances.
There is something contrived, almost elitist, about a concept which attracts wider attention only if it is coupled with almost evangelist methods of communication.