But Linder, with her single and singular name and her unsettled sense of what "Linderland" a later imagined rubric in which to corral her disparate activities might contain, has been many artists: photomonteur indebted to Modernism, musical conduit from 1970s feminism to art-inflected post-punk, collaborator and adviser, too often dismissed as "muse", for others such as Morrissey and Magazine vocalist Howard Devoto, latterly contriver and often star of shamanic and gruelling gallery performances. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Besides being a fascinating interpreter of classical philosophical texts, as well as a surprising contriver of strings of verbal associations, Heidegger was an indispensable guide to the present. ❋ Enowning (2009)
In this place, the ingenuity of the contriver and disposer of the walks had exerted itself to make the most of little space, and by screens, both of stone ornamented with rude sculpture, and hedges of living green, had endeavoured to give as much intricacy and variety as the confined limits of the garden would admit. ❋ Unknown (2008)
January 6th, 2006 at 8: 40 pm click says: contriver: anatomically devise tributes: fertilized Lowell. speedups ❋ Unknown (2005)
What an admirable contriver did I think myself till now! ❋ Unknown (2006)
An excellent contriver, surely, she must think this worthy Mr. Tomlinson to be! ❋ Unknown (2006)
Apprehensive for both our safeties from the villany of such a daring and profligate contriver, I must call upon you, my dear, to resolve upon taking legal vengeance of the infernal wretch. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Sally, particularly, who pretends to be a mighty contriver, has just now, in an insolent manner, told me, on my rejecting her proffered aids, that I had no mind to conquer; and that I was so wicked as to intend to marry, though I would not own it to her. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Passages may be quoted from Herodotus and the tragedians, in which the word is used in a neutral sense for a contriver or deviser or inventor, without including any ethical idea of goodness or badness. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Indeed the world, let me escape whither, and to whomsoever I could, would conclude him to be the contriver of it. ❋ Unknown (2006)
So, my dear, it comes out, that I myself was obliged to this deep contriver. ❋ Unknown (2006)
We cannot for a moment hesitate in pronouncing that that which, after its original adjustment, no superintendence was required, displayed far greater ingenuity than that which demanded, at every change in its law, the intervention of its contriver. ❋ Ratzsch, Del (2005)
Emily should have mistaken it for the object it resembled, nor, since she had heard such an extraordinary account, concerning the disappearing of the late lady of the castle, and had such experience of the character of Montoni, that she should have believed this to be the murdered body of the lady Laurentini, and that he had been the contriver of her death. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Can you, with honour, be the knowing, the wilful occasion, nay, the artful contriver of the ruin of a human being? ❋ Unknown (2004)
The contriver of her ills for a moment cowered beneath her eye. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Neither were the other parts of the entertainment neglected by this ingenious contriver, who produced undeniable proofs of his elegance and art in the wedding-supper, which had been committed to his management and direction. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Annette screamed; for, being ignorant of the circumstance to which Emily referred, she attributed her manner to a disordered fancy; but, when she had explained to what her own speech alluded, Emily, recollecting the attempt that had been made to carry her off, asked if the contriver of it had been discovered. ❋ Unknown (2004)
[2860] For who would not detest one who is the wretched contriver of such audacious falsehoods, when he perceives the truth turned by Marcus into a mere image, and that punctured all over with the letters of the alphabet? ❋ 1819-1893 (2001)
He flies even you, you the fair contriver of his auspicious fortunes. ❋ Unknown (1999)
1)John [contrived] a way to get large amounts of money with [minimal effort].
2)Sam contrived a swing out of a rope and some [scrap] wood. ❋ A_cat (2005)
Waluigi was only created for the purposes of giving [Wario] a Tennis Partner; He only exists to be [Roster Filler]. Contrived because he wasn't created [organically] through the creators own passion. ❋ DeScRiPtOr92584 (2018)
[Bill] [sounded] so contrived when he pleaded [not guilty] ❋ Shaun Holbert (2003)
" I don't know, man...everything in our culture in this day and age is so [contrived]."
"[pixar] and [dreamworks] movies are very contrived"
"Hipsters actually are EXTREMELY contrived." ❋ Dystyl (2012)
A scene featuring Q giving [007] his gadgets is a staple of James Bond films.
Now imagine if the film did not feature this and we see 007 using a never-before-seen gadget to get out of a tight situation. This would be a [plot contrivance], as the audience would have zero reason to believe that 007 would have a gadget of this kind, though him having this gadget is still technically not impossible, preventing it from being a [plot hole]. ❋ Three-Eight (2019)
If [you came] to understand that the 'virgin birth' was ecumenically contrived, would you still need to [believe it]? What about [walking on water]...? ❋ YAWA (2018)
