0 to arrange a situation or event, or arrange for something to happen, using clever planning: --
1 to arrange for something to happen or be done by being smart or deceiving others: --
One of the striking features of this report is the way it contrives to present positive achievements in music as part of a criticism.
All of this, let me hasten to add, is never suggested in a way that is in the least instructing, contrived, or improving.
The structure of the book is carefully contrived.
Real, authentic, naturally occurring are expressions which have (in corpus linguistic terms) a positive prosody, and unreal, inauthentic, contrived, artificial a negative one.
I have not modelled performance in this rather contrived task and hence cannot say what should be concluded from such a model.
Although this constitutes an elegant example of an artificial neural network, the claim of biological relevance seems contrived.
Thus, altogether unsurprisingly, the new rulers contrived to 'manipulate city space', conscripting architectural and urban form as the mediators of administrative, religious and social power.
The dancing girls, however, have contrived to carry out their object without rendering themselves amenable to criminal prosecution.
