Use "rube" in a sentence

1. This is definitely one of my Rube Goldberg classics, but I am not dismayed

2. Maybe she’d been a rube to believe in anything but the blind ontic quest to ensure one’s genes survived

3. And what she comes to, more often than not, is this fantasy she’d once had of having recovered the son or daughter she’d lost, as if that whole night had been a vast Rube Goldberg contraption for showing her that what she wants is not what she’s thought

4. I’ve listened to his lies, lies, lies—from simplistic child’s fibs to elaborate Rube Goldbergian contraptions