Word: contrivedness
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But more often the songs are like Mr. Convy's dreamy love ballad: standard, detached from the rest of the show, and unprovocative. Absurdly contrived stretches of transitory dialogue serve to get the audience away from the plot-line and into the song-line.
Before sunset the first day, 2,500 tourists had swarmed past the brick garden wall that he had laid himself, the intricate rockeries and the stream that he had contrived, by means of pumps, to recirculate uphill. Then they wandered through the rooms of Chartwell, the manor house in Kent...
Writing in 1924, Abraham Flexner in his book Medical Education, commented on the experience of most American medical students as follows: "They were grouped in fixed classes, the personnel of which was practically unchanged, except for outright losses due to failure, from year to year; they followed in fixed order...
In England's good old days, the tavern, like the inn, was a refuge for travelers, providing bed, board, a warming fire and flagons of wine. For Samuel Johnson, who according to legend used the Cheshire Cheese as both club and office, there was "nothing which has yet been...
Ten years ago, a couple of boys from The Bronx named Walden Cassotto and Donald Kirshner got into the music game writing radio-commercial jingles. They never made a living at it, but Cassotto contrived to change his name and his luck by going into singing: he is now that...