All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.
Creativity is never too contrived.
What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story. [. . . ] This is early days in the festival, but Rust and Bone has to be a real contender for prizes, and, the odds will be shortening to vanishing point for Cotillard getting the best actress award.
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
Only equals make friends, every other relationship is contrived and off balance.
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
Each contact is an opportunity for your own unique satsang with your Self, not in some strained or contrived way, but by keeping your mind inside your Heart, by trusting the inner guru and by recognizing each moment as perfect in itself and by simply being your Self. This is the true and natural responsibility or rather 'response-ability', the ability to respond effortlessly to the needs of the moment.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust And died in baseness-and their law is dust.
History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.
You see reality TV and it's not reality TV. It's contrived and everything is plotted and scripted nearly. Documentaries are the same and just as bad.
The devil is perfectly willing that the Church should multiply its organization and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying. . . Satan laughs softly, as he looks at the Church today, and says under his breath: "You can have your Sunday schools, your YMCAs. . . your grand choirs, and your fine organs, and your brilliant preachers. . . as long as you do not bring into them the power of Almighty God, sought and obtained by earnest, persistent, believing, mighty prayers. "
When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.
Leadership can't be forced or contrived. It has to be your personality.
The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination.
A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
A lot of that I base on, "Is it still going to sound interesting and fresh to me in five years, am I going to be embarrassed by this in five years?" It's easier for me to do stark, moody, pretty stuff, and I have all this pop stuff inside me, but it's a lot more dangerous, and pop is just apt to sound contrived and sort of pedestrian if you're not careful.
After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.
A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.
