Word: contrivedness
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Because Hanson has to couch what is mostly common-sense information in entertaining terms, sometimes the scattered asides and pop-culture references that give the book its hip, witty tone can seem contrived.
If it is not obvious from what I have written, my first year has confirmed what I had always felt about Harvard. The poorly contrived questions of the first-year questionaire might not reflect it, and there may have been the occasionally boring class, unintelligible professor, series of rainy days...
In the brief three months it has been on the air, the Best of American Bandstand has become one of VH1's top-rated programs, aiding the network in its haphazard quest to be seen as something other than a buzz bin for all things Celine Dion. The reruns, each...
Critics continually use contrived economic "models" to bolster their attacks against the gaming-entertainment industry. Actual statistical and empirical data from state and local jurisdictions that have adopted gambling show these so-called models to be totally unreliable and inaccurate. Once depressed communities are now enjoying economic growth and prosperity...
In the second act, the playwright seems to realize that the needs some kind of plot to end the play. So when the audience returns from intermission, "Godspell" ceases to be just smiley, insipid lessons and becomes a more foreboding graphic representation of the life of Jesus, replete with the...