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"contrivance" Definitions
  1. [countable, uncountable] (usually disapproving) something that somebody has done or written that does not seem natural; the fact of seeming artificial
  2. [countable] a clever or complicated device or tool made for a particular purpose
  3. [countable, uncountable] a clever plan or trick; the act of using a clever plan or trick
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In the other, character is conditioned and flattened by contrivance.
Another problem is a storytelling contrivance that quickly becomes irritating.
Was he really serious about doing away with this grotesquely unfair contrivance?
We should care to not make it a matter of legal contrivance.
There is unequivocally an air of contrivance to the situations under discussion.
This U-turn seems like a bit of a narrative contrivance to me.
In her paintings, she synthesizes astute observation and extreme contrivance into something unique.
And to call that plot a conventional Marvel-style contrivance is an understatement.
Still, the movie never quite justifies the contrivance of its puzzle-box construction.
That's a fascinating and fresh theme, worth even the contrivance it takes to establish.
In truth, FijiFirst is less a party than a contrivance to hold Mr Bainimarama aloft.
"Contrivance" is a good opener but I do find myself closing some sets with it.
The problem for "Detroit" is that, when contrivance is required, it tends to jut out.
But character contrivance is deadly; too much makes a play's engine start kicking and stalling.
This wildly lucrative contrivance posing as a boxing match for the ages ended as expected.
Next to Elmslie's sentence, Jeff Koons' "Balloon Dog" looks like what it is, expensive contrivance.
The extent of the contrivance will set off multilevel credulity alarms in viewers paying close attention.
Yet in the end, the army of the dead almost entirely existed as a narrative contrivance.
"You stay tryin' to be slick," Al says to Earn, doubtful about this corner-cutting contrivance.
It's not a plot contrivance that Hooded Justice is black — it couldn't be any other way.
But it's a shame to see her resort to the level of contrivance that this book requires.
But every time the play began to engage me through character it disengaged me through plot contrivance.
Was such accumulation of wealth natural, as he argued, or the contrivance of unfair laws and regulations?
That contrivance offers a sense of the movie's storytelling, which tends toward the earnest and the functional.
But Yarosh's character [here be spoilers] presents the film's strangest plot contrivance, and its most gaping hole.
Depending on your personal preferences, that either makes it a tongue-in-cheek delight or a miserable contrivance.
He sees again what a trap and a contrivance the world is, a tangle of sin and pain.
But Malmberg hangs back, allowing the character of Hogancamp — rather than any contrivance or "plot" — to power the film.
The central plot in each movie eventually has to rely on an awkward contrivance or two to keep going.
One floor above, a sister restaurant serves up limp dosas and a chicken-and-rice contrivance masquerading as biryani.
The eyeball business was a classic contrivance of first-generation internet businesses — and it largely didn't work then either.
It's a nigh-perfect, in-the-moment performance that makes this play credible even in scenes of mechanical contrivance.
This time she summons ghosts, thanks to a plot contrivance that makes the most of Ms. Stewart's elusive magnetism.
Unfortunately, critics did not agree: "Works of high art are not to be executed by a mechanical contrivance," one rebuked.
In other words, there's good reason to think this isn't all a total contrivance designed to lash out at China.
In between auditions Valerie earns money on the side cleaning houses, but also working as Brian's research assistant (contrivance alert).
It doesn't help that the plot, from a novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen, relies on more than a little contrivance.
To reduce its characters to a collection of plot twists waiting to happen is to confuse their psychological richness for contrivance.
A movie would probably focus around some contrivance like a wedding or a funeral, so the band could get back together.
Because, as you reach the novel's last pages, even if it's through a kind of contrivance, you find yourself moved nonetheless.
But neither really has anything to say about its chosen subject, because doing so might distract from its delivery of contrivance.
Having Cyborg's armor categorize him as a threat and attack him to set off the fight is an inane bit of contrivance.
Elena unfortunately gets short shrift in the story because for all her screen time, she's never really more than a plot contrivance.
After the fire, however, he tells me that the contrivance of his work, even its fakery, seemed hugely more apparent to him.
As for the aura of contrivance he has sensed in some immersive attractions, he says it comes from an excess of exposition.
There is a fundamental layer of falseness and contrivance to all public images: Celebrity culture relies on that layer not being disrupted.
Even if via a derivative narrative contrivance, survival may be framed as a pursuit undertaken on behalf of all people, not just one.
It can be exasperating and it also stokes your sadism, particularly when Vivi's helplessness (she escapes in flip-flops) feels like a contrivance.
Elegant contrivance is necessary in the novel, and it has its own pleasures; yet I've always been a fan of the accretion phase.
Lady Gaga thrives at the extremes of theatrical contrivance and stone-cold intimacy, and those are the modes in which this performance succeeded.
The problem is the show's plotting relies so heavily on coincidence and contrivance that it rips me out of the series every few scenes.
It was a contrivance (Why did Klingons often know English and Klingon, while humans knew only one of the two?) but a necessary one.
But there's less there than the show seems to realize, and the overreliance on coincidence makes everything feel like a contrivance, not a development.
Tom's involvement in helping Sonic flee is a contrivance designed to give Jim Carrey another human to play against, which is a little tiresome.
The bar was itself a contrivance, a kind of nightly photo op, but the pictures Weegee took there manage to be both exploitative and humane.
The contrivance might fit the novel's theme of courtly love, but it's hard to buy the premise of Nell as a gauche and pining scientist.
Such playfulness guarantees nothing in itself, and a bald account of "The Handmaiden," as of many Nabokov novels, suggests little more than a chilly contrivance.
The family comedy-drama "Almost Christmas" is an often disarmingly entertaining picture, in spite of its being a not particularly well-thought-out cinematic contrivance.
There's a risk, a very eighties one, that the character could become a contrivance, the exotic among the boys: E.T. in a skirt; she-Yoda.
Mainstream economic theory has little to say on what money is, assuming it is a contrivance simply to do away with the bother of barter.
From the broad perspective of the Joel and Ellie plot, or what TLoU is "really" about, this opening section of the game is just a contrivance.
The other — and I think we talked about this is contrivance — anything that's too tortured in its origin but also really hard to say or pronounce.
Gilbert held Mahler's sublime contrivance together better than any other conductor I've heard—including Simon Rattle, who led the Berlin Philharmonic in the Seventh last fall.
But "Narcos" makes the entire rural escapade feel like a contrivance, an off-the-books dramatic interlude that doesn't square with the rest of the show.
The study showed that the top schools achieve top-tier results by the simple contrivance of admitting the best students, not necessarily by providing the best education.
It's a forced setting in forced circumstances, and the show never shakes that sense of contrivance in the same the way that, for example, "Queer Eye" does.
Critics would surely complain that the caprine members of the cast of "Goats" were a mere contrivance, distracting from events and robbing a tragic drama of its gravitas.
It's not some millennial stratagem, nor is the quirk of clipping your iPhone to your thigh like a drop-leg holster some act of happy chance or contrivance.
Much manual contrivance was and still is necessary to mold the output from these multiple systems and multiple client databases to conform to a common regulatory reporting view.
But the scene doesn't have the force it should, because like much of what has come before, it takes fictional license over the line into contrivance and melodrama.
And when Erica started vomiting, forcing Glenn to leave before Nesterenko could say anything interesting, you might conclude that it was a naked and fairly clumsy dramatic contrivance.
" Reinhardt states that for him, art is "always academic," and "is always a construction or contrivance or a formula, or as, Yeats may say, some kind of a mask.
It's a bizarre and lazy plot contrivance (do British police officers and military units not recognize their colleagues?) that serves mostly as a way to isolate Banning and Asher.
TERNE may be as common as pewter or brass out in the real world, but the word seems to be a crossword contrivance to me, if a necessary one.
The Night Of, like all murder mysteries, asks us to solve a fair amount of contrivance and convenience, but this dances on the edge of being way too much.
However, in contrivance to their initial agreement with the City Council, Quantum scrapped plans for what would have been a 2200,000 square foot memorial to the victims of Gestapo terror.
Fashion is more than just sartorial contrivance — it's a mode of communication, a means of creative expression, and it is a cultural force that touches every aspect of the arts.
The central movement of the all-male "Double" is where we're least aware of contrivance on Mr. Morris's part and when we most powerfully sense his gift for poetic fantasy.
It's never going to be perfect because it is a human enterprise — a "contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants" — as conservative British statesman Edmund Burke once said.
Mr. Miller's journey to this point, outlined over dozens of interviews with friends, classmates and current and former colleagues, is a triumph of unbending convictions and at least occasional contrivance.
If Hollywood creatives can render decades' worth of comic book contrivance accessible and enjoyable to the masses, surely some screenwriter and director can do the same for a video game movie.
It seems badly underthought — too compressed in time, inexcusably dependent on contrivance and coincidence — and its intricate strands, tracking smokeless savages and hidden shipboard compartments and mad schoolmasters, never really cohere.
Some new contrivance would take me out of it for days at a time, and then I would come back for an episode or two, before having to drop it again.
This adds a layer of intensity to Miles's calling, but it also adds a sense of narrative contrivance that the show can barely afford, given the inherent dangers of overt corniness.
The latter earned him a slap on the wrist, a five-game suspension for the coming season, while the transgressions were written off as the contrivance and failings of an underling.
The Republican Party has rewarded Mr. Trump handsomely for his aversion to even a nanosecond of scripted political contrivance, and he doesn't possess a fraction of Mr. Rubio's knowledge of foreign policy.
There's more than a little contrivance too, as well as an unnecessary side story that has these lovers playing out their recurring fates in a separate, fantastical time amid cheesy special effects.
It's the kind of movie that introduces a potential suitor for Charlie in her neighbor Memo (a disarming Jorge Lendeborg Jr.), but is comfortable not resolving that relationship with a predictable romantic contrivance.
For me, that was the case in "Telegraph Avenue," a well-observed slice of gentrifying urban life clogged with a bit too much Dickensian contrivance to work as well as it should have.
The seams of contrivance are visible when the academic, Alois Erhart, makes not one but two visits to a revered scholar's grave, at a cemetery also frequented by the survivor and the cop.
As a writerly contrivance, you can do this once or twice; when you do it over and over the reader begins to think, Maybe she skimped on the self-help books about writing.
To assume Philip's confession must be either strategic or sincere would miss a great theme of "The Americans": Things can be both, just as the Jenningses' marriage was a contrivance and true love.
"The whole of modern fashionable dress is a most ingenious and successful contrivance to produce the most distressing disease and deformity," she wrote, before expounding, with illustrations, on the threat of displaced organs.
My leading theory is that such a plot contrivance was the most convenient way to free Zoo from having to age Billy Burke an additional 10 years, along with the rest of its cast.
"It seems to the Tribunal to be a very long bow to draw to suggest that it is a concoction or contrivance to advance the cause of this application," the record of the appeal says.
There's an element of contrivance to the whole affair since we know that the Met asked the artists to engage in these dialogues — any spur of the moment, organic quality to the art is lost.
The biggest and most artificial contrivance is the creation of a fictional character, a Belarusian scientist played by Emily Watson who takes a suspicious radiation reading in Minsk and magically, preposterously takes over the story.
At a time when plot and contrivance in literary fiction are not the most fashionable things, McCormick, in his early 30s, proves adept at old-fashioned skills that one hopes will never go entirely unpracticed.
So we were primed for a finale that tried too hard to wrap up the plot via convenience and contrivance, while mostly bypassing the character work that made the season's first five hours so good.
The sonnet, an Italian contrivance adapted by the poets of the English Renaissance, was handed down to twentieth-century writers like Robert Lowell and Gwendolyn Brooks and self-consciously Americanized—its gait loosened, its politics sharpened.
In what seems like a total movie contrivance (but is apparently pulled from Linklater's own life), the members of his baseball team all live together in a pair of houses, where they're left to their own devices.
David and Sara's commitment to full-time parenting is only calf-leather deep, however, which leads to the show's echt-sitcom contrivance: They recruit the barely employed Charlie as nanny for their holy terror of a daughter.
Not everything Mr. Morgan tries works — an episode involving Elizabeth's complicated feelings toward Jacqueline Kennedy, and a plot contrivance in which Philip is more closely linked to the Profumo scandal than history would suggest, don't pan out.
That's not to say that the show is weaker, exactly — but the formula is becoming more familiar, and the contrivance of whirlwind life changes all taking place in a handful of days feels a little harder to swallow.
Whatever investigation it's attempting, the movie is leaden in its pacing — the first 15 minutes feel like an hour — and its constricted shooting style, practically all hand-held almost close-ups, is transparent in its contrivance of realism.
In tandem with the cinematographer Urszula Pontikos, he makes a virtue of contrivance, emphasizing the artifice of some of the movie's sets by, say, having Peter stride seamlessly off a Los Angeles beach and into a Liverpudlian hallway.
There's a level of contrivance about being an Insta celebrity, which gets forgotten, and for me, it meant getting fed a mixture of Moet and protein shake and worrying if I'd cranked the ISO too high for the flash.
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Marianne's radio silence is a storytelling contrivance (for personal reasons, Ms. Swinton agreed to appear in the movie if she didn't speak), but it adds to the character's celebrity aura and deepens the sense of isolation conveyed by the location.
Their convergence is a contrivance, but it allows Markley to do some enormously clever things with the structure of the book, essentially composed of four novellas, each focusing on a different character with his or her own purpose for returning home.
How such a hoary contrivance is meant to support a tone of gravity is anybody's guess — and certainly bardolaters have labored hard to justify the Duke's preference for letting events approach disaster instead of pulling the plug on his weird experiment.
In its way, the DayZ subplot is also emblematic of what's bothering about this second season of Occupied: It's an obvious contrivance that exists to serve a purpose that's external to the show's narrative, which is then extensively adjusted to accommodate it.
The three theme clues didn't have anything else in common, as far as I know, a lack of contrivance that is seen more at the beginning of the week and can contribute to a bit of a flying-blind feeling to a newbie.
Either Clinton will win, and it will simply feel like a lesser of two evils, a subsuming of a righteous cause into a waffling contrivance; or Clinton will lose, and the Sanders coalition will feel vindicated that the wrong Democratic candidate won the nomination.
But at least one half of your romantic duo, and ideally both halves, need to possess that tricky balance of relatable and aspirational qualities that makes it possible to engage with and care about characters whose narratives are usually, but not always, defined by contrivance.
The first is he was acting as a fully authorized agent for the Trump camp, which has made the calculation that some mixture of confusion and contrivance is the president's best bet for minimizing the damage to his presidency from the nettlesome Daniels affair.
And in a scene that recalls the central set-to in Ayad Akhtar's "Disgraced," all four characters assemble for the first time for dinner when Brian, who (contrivance alert) plays basketball with Jackson, tries to set him up with Valerie — unaware that they already know each other.
The administration would have to create a new rationale for adding the question and win the approval of a skeptical district court, which ruled that its stated reason for the question — to better enforce the Voting Rights Act — was a bald contrivance hiding some other motive.
" Mancini didn't love that he had to follow the mythology added to the first film — in order to return to human form, Chucky can only transfer his soul to Andy, the first person he revealed his true self to — but he admitted that the "contrivance" was "very narratively useful.
In an apparent attempt to literalize the play's self-declared deceits, Mr. Bondy draws attention to the artificiality of the location — you're always aware this takes place in a theater — a contrivance that's matched by brittle, outsize performances that turn faces into masks of surprise, sorrow and so on.
These machinations are mostly a novelistic contrivance for Samuel to investigate his mother's back story and to try to understand why she left him, and it doesn't give away much to reveal that the text of "The Nix" turns out to be the globe-­trotting book he ends up writing.
The United States should lay out a series of benchmarks — building on the position shared by both Washington and the other Syrian rebel groups that Fatah al-Sham will be judged by deeds, not words — that would indicate a real break with Al Qaeda, rather than a rhetorical and tactical contrivance.
She samples not just one teen movie contrivance but a series of them — she has forbidden feelings for best friend/boy next door Josh (Israel Broussard), she writes confessional letters to her five biggest crushes that someone finds and mails out, and she embarks on a fake relationship in order to make someone jealous.
Yet a quick glance at the "Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith, the father of economics, suggests why competition watchdogs are so unhappy with the current set-up: People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
That contrivance and the stolen glances it entails gives "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" an extra frisson of danger, even if Sciamma and her audience know exactly where this will lead: Drenched in fetishistic pleasures (those bodices!) and a faint mist of tragedy, the film is less about the narrative itself than its attempt to marry eroticism and feminist theory.
Sure, there's a lot of waffle about how you need to see the undead to truly understand – but where every other big penultimate battle has risen organically out of the series' events, this felt like a contrivance created solely so everyone could converge on King's Landing next week for what looks increasingly like it'll be the mother of all cliffhangers.
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She lay down on the ground and he lay down on top of her and kissed her and moved against her for a short while and then went further and there was hardly any of the supposed pain and really to the girl it just seemed badly designed, fiddly, a contrivance, a make-do job (as her father might say), and he rolled off her just in time and rose onto his knees and came on the ground.

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