This is a considerable achievement; the use of a dated form of one's own language always sounds the contrivance it is, unconvincing, artificial and slow.

A challenging undercling on the fingertips was a key obstacle, and Jim used an artificial contrivance in his home - a simulator - to train for the move.

It is so that we do not need to resort to the artificial contrivances of the Alilann.

Unfortunately, the references both to the year 2025 and to Garner's unreliable narration never become more than artificial literary contrivances that distract the reader from the central story.

By proposing this ingenious but patently artificial contrivance, Friedman was able to account for the non-neutrality of money in the short run.

My skin in this age seemed an artificial contrivance.

He knew himself to be an artificial contrivance, a stuffed sausage of a puppet who had been made by manipulators for a joke.

Prior to the advent of the charismatic Rubini, every well-schooled opera singer had avoided using a conspicuous and continuous vibrato because, according to Scott, it varied the pitch of the note being sung to an unacceptable degree and it was considered to be an artificial contrivance arising from inadequate breath control.

We have all watched someone who has lost one hand (as he had) and replaced it with a hook or some other artificial contrivance perform some task that involves both his real hand and the artificial one.

The plot gets bogged down in some artificial contrivances, and the cops and medical authorities do an improbably sloppy job of researching Tory's family history.