Scott Gottlieb

The truth is that the greatest innovations in health-care delivery haven't come from federally contrived oligopolies or enormous hospital chains. Novel concepts - whether practice-management companies, home health care or the first for-profit HMO - almost always have come from entrepreneurial firms, often backed by venture capital.

American Public Servant

Steven Wright

I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.

American Comedian

Niccolo Machiavelli

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Italian Writer

Lily Allen

I don't really see how any song can not feel contrived if it isn't honest, and how could I write honest songs if I don't write about stuff going on in my life and how I'm feeling?

English Musician

Usher

Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.

American Musician

John F. Kennedy

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

American President

Rex Stout

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

American Writer

Naveen Andrews

If a character's suddenly spouting information that's supposed to bring you up to date, it can seem artificial or contrived.

British Actor

Sam Shepard

Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

American Playwright

Andrew Jackson

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Use 'contrive' when suggesting clever planning done in secret, not something done openly.

Secret Plans

'Contrive' sometimes implies dishonesty or artificiality in ones actions or plans.

Negative Connotation

Use 'contrive' sparingly; it's a precise word best used for specific situations requiring ingenuity.

Avoid Overuse

'Contrive' highlights the skilful use of imagination to create or invent something.

Skill and Ingenuity

Use 'contrive' when describing the creation of practical solutions to problems.

Practical Solutions

'Contrive' often implies making the most of a situation through clever planning.

Opportunistic

Use 'contrive' when referring to clever or strategic actions designed to achieve a specific goal.

Clever Tactics

When 'contrive' is used, it often involves subtle manipulation or arranging circumstances.

Subtle Manipulation

 the absolute weakest form of evidence known to man and that is Authority in science don't care how many letters you have after your name in science we want to know what your reasons are for believing something how do you know that something is good for us or bad for us but we're also unimpressed by Authority because it's so easy to contrive this is

Battling bad science -...

 want to get rid of garbage why don't we try to build out of garbage it started to be kind of a contrived effort to recycle and has ended up the best way I know of to be able to regardless of recycling hey China Senna

Earthships: A House Made...

 well, how about a huge swarm of comets that are passing by this star in a very elliptical orbit? Well, it ends up that this is actually consistent with our observations. But I agree, it does feel a little contrived.