Word: contrivedness
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Nikki tells readers she normally teaches two sections of “Intro Economics” at Harvard on Monday, but that she has cancelled class to give her students time to work on a term-paper. None of the novel’s contrived plot twists approach the absurdity...
Palmer dismissed the University’s ongoing budget crunch as a contrived attempt to pander to future donors.
He was good nearly to the point of seeming cynical. Busta and his Squad have clearly rehearsed this show many, many times over. It went without a single hitch, contrived little song interludes and all. People complained that he was being “pissy,” but who...
“It seems a little contrived to develop a committee to do this, but I guess I could see the point. But I’ve never heard of this before,” he said.
On that day, there were many good reasons to oppose the war, and today, there are even more. In the year since, no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq. It is now clear that the primary justification for going to war was based on flimsy and contrived...