contrivance

If you have a need for water, build your contrivance on the River, he said.

The contrivance seemed to have added something since its last visit.

He drew the contrivance away to the side of the room.

In its place he saw a contrivance unfamiliar to him.

The play may be a contrivance, but the performances are just right.

Those on the ground got to their feet and stared after the contrivance.

Almost any mix of direct hit and contrivance is possible.

You may want to call this comparative analysis a contrivance.

"Are you sure this contrivance is not just playing jokes?"

The group turned together to look at the strange contrivance a few yards from them.

You find yourself thinking that a playwright's contrivances, not life, have brought the two together.

Considered solely as a contrivance of nature, they can be quite beautiful.

But that corporation was nothing more than a contrivance to the end last described.

The thing was the big contrivance that looked like a radio cabinet.

For my part, nevertheless, I think it a most useful contrivance.

Say we would like to make careful drawings of his contrivance.

"Come to think about it, we've had a lot of trouble from odd contrivances getting into the wrong hands."

Sometimes its plot contrivances make it hard to take seriously.

In this way a social contrivance appears to be founded on the natural order of things.

And we could not have chosen a more perfect moment in the history of this great city for our little contrivance.

The contrivance was a helicopter, built for flight through the air.

And some humans had, from the very first, an orientation similar to those of Media contrivances.

And now we will find out what the mysterious contrivances do."

That's because each story's contrivances take getting used to.

I'm saying with all I was doing they could not get a conviction without a contrivance."