Nonetheless, there is in his carefully contrived images an undercurrent of quiet, unsettling emotion.

The only remaining threat to the carefully contrived image of party unity appeared to come from Jerry Brown, Clinton's most dogged rival in the primaries, who had won 609 convention delegates.

I wondered if this was a contrived image, designed to spook opponents before the bell.

These are some of the carefully contrived images that make this show a tribute to the talent of Soviet photographers even as it reveals their complicity in Stalin's big lie.

In an interview Hill once gave to Climbing magazine, she said, "Society's contrived image of what a woman should or shouldn't be is something I've never agreed with.

Is this an artful pose or a contrived image or is the real you a pretty girl with a potty mouth?

The message is neither reality-based nor aspirational; rather, it is a parade of self-consciously contrived images.

Like, "yellow railroad" could have been a blinding day when the sun was so bright on a railroad someplace and it stayed on my mind.... These aren't contrived images.

In fact, the best way to "see" a Rockwell painting is to ignore the inevitably contrived central image and patrol the peripheries.

The customary promotion for cars of this type uses contrived images of power and prowess, like trucks bouncing over railroad ties and flying over crevasses.