Word: contrivedness
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This is far stronger than any known metal or alloy. The tensile strength of annealed iron wire is about 60,000 Ibs. per sq. in. The best alloy steel, a carefully contrived structure of many different kinds of crystals, has a tensile strength of less than 500,000 Ibs. per...
Eventually, the two social threads come together, producing the final tragic shooting. Although the film lacks many of the directional techniques so common today--contrived transitions between scenes, double-jointed camera angles and low pressure acting--Renoir has forced a rather pointless story into the mold of his own talent...
Yet the play-however seriously meant or in places skillfully contrived-comes off largely a parlor game. The characters get to know themselves better than the audience knows the characters; the play means too much to mean-as a felt experience-much of anything at all. The meaning is not...
Shunning the pedestrian gimmicks of familiar 2-D swashbuckling movies, MGM has contrived a new set of problems for Taylor. There is, of course, the scene with the hero trapped in his palace room as a group of adversaries outside threaten to break down the door. Knights of the Round...
Adams, who knew world political history as few men before or since his time, said that the vice' presidency was "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." Jefferson found the post "tranquil and unoffending," assuring him of "philosophical evenings in winter...