Word: contrivedness
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The second attempt, "Summer of Corruption: Apt Pupil"--which followed what is considered to be King's best novel. The Shining--proves even worse. Devoid of the usual terror, the story's potential is overwhelmed by a contrived situation and hackneyed plot. In "Apt Pupil," King relates the tale of...
The results of human artifice are one thing, the effects of nature are another. A raccoon's coat is natural, a raccoon coat is not. Hair grows naturally on the human head, but its naturalness vanishes the instant it is groomed with comb, brush, scissors or curlers. The term...
The roots of Hussein's Hashemite dynasty are ancient, dating back to the 5th century patriarch Hashem, great-grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad. But the modern kingdom of Jordan is a recently contrived state with few natural boundaries and almost no tradition of nationalism. After the British wrested Palestine...
More than 900 spectators attended an October 24 Cuba forum in Lowell Lecture Hall sponsored by the national disarmament group, Tocsin. The gathering featured Hughes, who lambasted JFK for creating "a contrived and theatrical atmosphere" of military confrontation rather than relying primarily on peaceful United Nations intervention. History Professor Stephan...
To observers on the outside, the ' I ' purpose of prisons is to keep criminals on the inside. To the inmates themselves, prisons are for other things: to kill time; to learn, perhaps; above all, to wait. Life behind walls may be harsh and occasionally dangerous, but it is...