Contriving

Contriving phony charges of isolationism to dodge tough, practical questions is not only dishonest, it is reckless and irresponsible.

Andrew Bacevich: What Isolationism? 2008

Contriving excuses to be away from the telephone became a game I played with myself.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Stories of Faith Jack Canfield 2008

Contriving excuses to be away from the telephone became a game I played with myself.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Stories of Faith Jack Canfield 2008

Contriving to ruin me, to despoil me of all that I held valuable, in the very midst of it.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Contriving and learning a dance routine for said play.

I've done it again ... Pat 2006

Contriving and learning a dance routine for said play.

Archive 2006-02-01 Pat 2006

Contriving to keep her towel across herself, she drew up the front of her nightdress and shrugged her arms into the sleeves.

Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

Contriving to keep her towel across herself, she drew up the front of her nightdress and shrugged her arms into the sleeves.

Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

Contriving some excuse, I entered, and began a conversation with the young colored woman who was playing, and who had recently returned from a boarding-school, where she had been studying instrumental music among other things.

The Awakening of the Negro 1969

Contriving the future, co-ordinating, calculating for what is to be, must he not surely be the chief of all in remembering, as he is chief in producing?

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952