Word: contrivedness
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The show has become this year's lightning rod for controversy, real or contrived, about the upcoming prime time season. Robert Bennett, ABC affiliates vice chairman, calls it "a sophisticated adult farce." The network has been screening the show for its member stations, many of whom are extravagantly enthusiastic...
But the Haldeman visit is relatively brief; it is the "other states of mind" that preoccupy Mee. He reflects on his Midwestern Catholic boyhood, his adolescent, nearly fatal struggle against polio - an illness that drove him into intellectualism as a kind of self-defense. He describes his career at Harvard...
Boys, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Faerie Queene. The result is a remarkable confection: a subliminal history of the movies, wrapped in a riveting tale of suspense and adventure, ornamented with some of the most ingenious special effects ever contrived for film. It has no message, no...
Tom met a friend who had been disgruntled with the party from the start. Mike confirmed Tom's suspicion that most of the conversations going around them were contrived. Tom became self-conscious about his appearance. He realized there was a game going on at the party and he had...
Throughout Frost's Watergate assault, the old Nixon mannerisms inject an uneasy déja vu. The most discomforting is his reflexive, contrived smile, flashed?when he is under harsh attack. Sometimes his face freezes impassively, his eyelids fluttering. He stutters a bit under stress, and his syntax breaks down. At...