Word: contrivedness
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Almost any attempt at such a "staging" of a revue ends up seeming contrived, despite the best efforts of the director. A revue usually works well only when taken to its logical extreme--when the director and producer put all their efforts into creating a grandiose spectacle. Outrageously elaborate costumes...
Lastly, there are a few other aspects of the article that must be corrected. Jablin declares that the Nationalist Party is the only legal party in the Republic of China. There are actually three legalized political parties, the other two being the China Youth Party and the China Democratic Socialist...
Terry Wiles was born in 1962, and he was left at the hospital by his un married mother. Eventually a childless couple gave him a home: Len was a truck driver, amateur inventor, and-so it would seem- full-time saint who immediately opened his heart to the boy; his...
And Charles, like most famed debauches, repented at the end. He converted on his deathbed to Catholicism. His father had died to maintain the Anglican Church, and his successor, his brother James, would lose his throne because of his Catholicism. Charles II, unlike his brother, had realized that his public...
Golding deserves a great deal of credit for his portrayal of Matty and his world. He has colored Matty's soul with just the right amount of blackness, not so much that he cannot let glimpses of light flash over and through him. Matty does not command the violent hatred...