He looked like something dreamed up by central casting.

"A little something dreamed up by my clever maiden and her friends to protect me."

Would she turn out to be real, or was this another perversity dreamed up by the Leaguers?

Or is it an evil plot dreamed up by marketers?

Or the single tax once dreamed up by Henry George.

"Let's sleep on it and see if we can't dream up something by tomorrow morning that'll really wow them."

Particularly because law and rationality were both dreamed up by the privileged.

Find a way out of Iraq, and then avoid any more excellent adventures dreamed up by neoconservatives.

"It was part of a scam dreamed up by the bank, and I, or actually the governor before me, beat them at their own game."

They are not laws of nature, but concepts dreamed up by mankind.