Significados de seem contrived em inglês

Coming from anyone else, this would seem contrived, ridiculous, pretentious.

Though the final revelations seem contrived rather than devastating, O'Rowe probes difficult territory here, testing limits.

But doesn't it seem contrived?

Bracketed by calendar shots for a Pennsylvania tourism office, the romantic framings seem contrived at times, and upset the story's many layers.

Moreover, the instruction seemed contrived only for cheating and degrading the scholars.

Now his language had turned leaden and clumsy, and her problems seemed contrived.

Chondler's arguments were not merely circular, they seemed contrived to deceive.

She wore too much makeup, and her smile seemed contrived.

Acropera is a beast,-stigmadoes not open, everything seems contrived that it shall NOT be anyhow fertilised.

It was all stuff that seemed contrived.

Then she turned to me, as if she'd just thought of something, but somehow, the gesture seemed contrived.

Francis King is usually sure of himself in this kind of mouldering, ex-colonial background, though the storyline itself seems contrived.

It all seems contrived.

A soft light, resembling that of evening, penetrated into a chamber where every thing seemed contrived to exalt the luxury of slumber.

It seems contrived, comprised as it is of long passages of conversation -but ones delivered, strangely, in the clinical prose of a documentary.

But the surprising thing is, Crudup is so good and inherently likable that he makes the character appealing, even if his shtick sometimes seems contrived.