Word: contrivedness
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Even if some find Foer’s style to be cloying and contrived, he is, for better or for worse, one of the more important and accessible chroniclers of violence and morality in contemporary literature. “Eating Animals” is the first high-profile work to...
The dialogue becomes grating, however, when the film’s characters stop following normal conversation patterns, and instead begin to communicate with speeches that sound like contrived publicity blurbs for art shows. “Your work pushes the boundaries of modern thought, thrusting past the limitations of human...
In what could almost be contrived as a follow-up to this summer's run-in with the Cambridge police, Harvard has now taken to developing its own meter to determine if in fact people are implicitly racist or sexist. Enter "Project Implicit."
But the same complaint about superficiality can be lodged against Amelia. We learn a lot about where Earhart went and what she wore - behold the sumptuous caramel-colored leather jumpsuit! But the woman herself remains tantalizingly out of our grasp, and not just because she, her navigator and their plane...
If this seems like a totally illogical line of thinking, it may be because the entire concept of "school pride" is inherently irrational. "Spirit" is a manifestation of camaraderie among individuals who may very well have nothing in common except for shared affiliation with a group, be it to a...