Word: contrivedness
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Deep in our guts, we know that a President phoning an election official when votes are being counted?as Arroyo has admitted doing?is most likely not unusual. The scandal generated over Arroyo's calls is both contrived and hypocritical: we are not supposed to know this happens, but because...
As this is my last column for the glorious school year of 2004-2005, it’s time to prophesize. Or at least mindlessly throw more drivel on the page, which you have been so sadly hypnotized into reading by my consistently incisive, yet completely contrived, wit.
—some comment on the set and costumes and how they relate to the performance and enhance or detract from the production, not merely a comment on their “genderedness,” a concept entirely contrived by the reviewer
Some have questioned his decision to take on something so weighty, deriding his ambition and branding the attempt contrived, but in Foer’s view, it would have been contrived not to write about 9/11 given how much of his thoughts it was taking up. Honesty is always best...
But at least in this case, the parallels between tragedy and comedy are deadened by contrived and unoriginal plots. A wealthy socialite (Chloe Sevigny) is bored with her marriage and cheats on her alcoholic failing actor husband (Jonny Lee Miller), who is, sleeping with a student in one of his...