"The thing is that in general if the design looks contrived, the woman looks contrived," Garcia says.
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It's a contrived and heavily stage-managed premise — but contrived in a Dickensian sort of way with coincidences that reverberate with philosophical significance.
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" He said the court would not accept "contrived reasons.
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They support anyone with a grievance, no matter how contrived.
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Meanwhile, setting dining tables and baking cookies now seems contrived.
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Such partnerships run the risk of sounding contrived and inauthentic.
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So what is one to make of this contrived scenario,
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There was nothing contrived or forced about making that record.
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It is "tendentious at best and totally contrived at worst".
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As the second act proceeds, Ms. Brienza's storytelling becomes contrived.
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Will love win the day, or something else equally contrived?
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Being duped by conspicuous consumption: Fashion is a contrived epidemic.
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It was not contrived; it was the way he was.
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So she labors under the contrived honorific of state counselor.
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The use of Christian images and icons feels contrived, however.
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This is a complete fabrication contrived for purely political purposes.
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The adult Henry's conversations with his daughter are similarly contrived.
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Meanwhile... Today's lucky recipient of Westeros's Contrived Tidal Pattern Sweepstakes?
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It was another contrived relationship that made the episode frustrating.
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And yet, none of these details seem contrived or directive.
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None of her patterns or shapes feel contrived or generic.
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How corporations created this contrived culture designed to sell you things.
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It sounds contrived, like you're trying too hard to sound country.
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And with the hugely expressive Tran, none of it feels contrived.
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When you go on reward, you're entering a very contrived environment.
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The charges against these legal advocates often appear arbitrary and contrived.
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THE people have spoken, albeit in a muted and contrived fashion.
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Personally, I think it would come off as a bit contrived.
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Is that enough to justify a super goofy/contrived romcom plot?
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There are other aspects of Holmes that can feel contrived, too.
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"Hemp is a contrived name," DEA spokesman Rusty Payne told me.
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It is diabolically contrived and is the world's No 1 problem.
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Her ideas did not feel contrived, never like a crafted joke.
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No matter what Bowie did, it never seemed stale or contrived.
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"This is a contrived emergency," said a San Diego immigrant advocate.
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Sure, telling dinner guests what you're thankful for can feel contrived.
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Instead, he contrived to seize a spot through his own devices.
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They don't like anything too contrived or too staged on Snapchat.
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But the union with Fall Out Boy, while effective, feels contrived.
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Dirks hides behind a contrived Hobson's choice of security or liberty.
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That contrived misunderstanding between Richard and Laurie leads to a second contrived misunderstanding when Richard walks into the wrong conference room and winds up spilling invective to a tech blogger he assumes is Raviga's P.R. person.
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But despite the somewhat contrived premise, there's nothing silly about the movie.
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Her hairstyle has to be something that's easy and effortless, not contrived.
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The photographs are highly composed and theatrical, but do not seem contrived.
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The plot lines are more contrived (Lorelai and Christopher in Paris, anyone?).
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It makes us feel better about ourselves, albeit in a contrived way.
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And people don't love Cory Booker because he seems way too contrived.
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It's a subliminal message of sincerity that some language experts consider contrived.
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They campaign with fluffy rhetoric, contrived narratives, and attempts at being funny.
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"Accepting contrived reasons would defeat the purpose of the enterprise," Roberts added.
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Truth is, these things are usually a mix of contrived and organic.
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It wasn't contrived, it wasn't small talk – it was just so easy.
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I suppose it feels a bit contrived to choose the most recent.
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The town contrived to be bustling in a sleepy sort of way.
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Blair's contrived charisma hung in the air like a child star's burp.
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Other events are less successfully contrived in service of a political point.
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These pictures revealed how contrived, unnatural and seductive the originals actually were.
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And the script often depends on contrived callbacks to the last movie.
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Had the Senate convicted him, we would have invited endless contrived impeachments.
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They and the woman got together and contrived and made this up.
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What was not contrived, however, is the whole baby storyline this week.
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That plot, though certainly contrived, gives Ms. Stanton room for genuine comedy.
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Commedia-dell'arte troupes entertained Renaissance townspeople with plays contrived on the spot.
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"Accepting contrived reasons would defeat the purpose of the enterprise," he wrote.
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He is a moral allegorist whose connections never feel forced or contrived.
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She gave up on the contrived timeline the show and the producers demand.
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"It will probably be a contrived task, something not classically important," said Aaronson.
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When Renton launches into a new "Choose Life" monologue it feels overly contrived.
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But this whole side quest reeks of contrived conflict and cheap special effects.
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The video is quite something and it looks legit, if a bit contrived.
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But also, a 21000th anniversary isn't contrived like, say, a 1,000 episode celebration.
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But the great thing is it's not built on this contrived-friendship relationship.
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Some of Studio Job's less ambitiously contrived works are among its most appealing.
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Add surreal touches to an abstract setting, and the staging can feel contrived.
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In anything else but a black American body, it would have been contrived.
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Some are so contrived as to be hilarious, while others prove disturbingly true.
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Anyone else find that bowling ball prank a tad on the contrived side?
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It's a radically upbeat note that's too contrived in an otherwise desolate situation.
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Our Fight to Save America From Washington," he called a "contrived, phony mess.
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Had they written this moment into the pilot, it might have felt contrived.
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Jackson contrived to have the New Hampshire legislature call for a national Convention.
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In this sense, they are symbolic of rebellion — whether real, contrived, or imagined.
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" He added, "Any suggestion to the contrary is contrived and a red herring.
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And could it be just a contrived storyline to sell us on the season?
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If his answer seems too contrived, that's valuable information for you to chew on.
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Those suspicions are only increased by the carefully contrived opacity of Mr Blair's businesses.
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The narrative plays out predictably, plodding from one contrived plot point to the other.
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"This allows the natural wave pattern to develop and not look contrived," says Salkin.
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Like many of her new positions, they sound contrived to parry the Sanders assault.
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Of course, Survivor, like all reality TV, is a contrived notion of actual reality.
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I like that whole infrastructure, even though it's kind of contrived or forced maybe.
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It's a diverse, bright record with big singles that never feel contrived or strained.
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The perfectly posed photos and airbrushed visages of celebrities can look contrived and fake.
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Whether or not it was contrived, an eruption between McGregor and Diaz was expected.
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I don't know enough about them to know quite how contrived all this is.
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It's these machines that help to make the newly contrived project or persona real.
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The coalition contrived to run without a significant policy agenda beyond offering tax cuts.
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They live inside small, contrived environments that deny them ongoing challenges they can overcome.
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Not just the plot points, but even the humour in the film is contrived.
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Ms. Negga doesn't like "her hairstyles to look contrived," said her hairstylist, Vernon François.
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Before his teenage years, Flynn McGarry contrived a fully functional kitchen in his bedroom.
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Then, in this small novel's final pages, just when the various convolutions and tale-tellings seem too various and contradictory to resolve, the fractured identities come together in a set of small, miraculous and carefully contrived revelations that never feel contrived at all.
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Newton sometimes is called "controversial" in the silly nature of the N.F.L.'s contrived controversies.
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Or, more likely, has she asked her subject to adopt this pose of contrived reveal?
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But what's interesting is that these contrived lab settings actually resemble interactions on the web.
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Star Fox's allies often swooped in and out in an instant, but never felt contrived.
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The problem they settled on is in a way laughably contrived: Being a quantum computer.
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They all took part in the contrived parade of paying fealty to Trump's new power.
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" Such a piece of work that she contrived to be "the girl of his dreams.
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His daughter, Angela Gui, told Reuters at the time the confession appeared "ridiculous" and contrived.
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It may be tempting to dismiss DJ Khaled-style pop songs as contrived and inauthentic.
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The "sole stated reason" for the change, the court found, "seems to have been contrived".
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Experimental Relationship depicts Liao and her partner, Moro, performing a series of funny, contrived gestures.
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The contest format of Forged in Fire feels contrived, and its production values are bizarre.
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It felt like a weak and contrived way to give Carol something to grapple with.
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Maybe when he encores with a cover of Tamia's "So Into You," it's all contrived.
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Indeed, any surprises are largely contrived with common plea agreements and charges in federal investigations.
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The situation is contrived and methodically designed for maximum frustration, misunderstanding, and miscarriage of justice.
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Maybe I'm a cynic, but it felt like a PR gimmick, contrived to create hype.
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Until this point, security AI was imprisoned in the contrived halls of academia and government.
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It feels very contrived, like the writers were reverse-engineering the Obama we all know.
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Here, landscape is too contrived, it looks as cold and hard as the pavement itself.
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There's some contrived dialogue, and not all of the performances are at the same level.
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There were numerous devices contrived to bridge the communication gap between us and the deceased.
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Nothing here comes off as contrived or overexplained, making it all feel still more immersive.
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Obama's transgender military policy suggests that the reaction to HB2 has been contrived and excessive.
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The key to the dissembling American leader's apparent "success" lies in his carefully contrived simplifications.
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What doesn't work is the unwieldy script, which has more than a few contrived twists.
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Some are contrived and outlandish, some are pretty feasible, and some are essentially wish fulfillment.
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It was one of those instances of reality asserting itself forcibly into these contrived situations.
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For the most part, though, the picture is content to be sleek, smooth and contrived.
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It's a fully contrived commercial product, but all three vocalists sound properly haunted and determined.
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These days, I find myself steadily drifting from the contrived faction to the comfort camp.
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But he finds Poppy instead, and a contrived scandal soon forces their hands into marriage.
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But the constant repetition seems contrived to fill space, as does the unusually large type.
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Social science experiments are usually conducted on college campuses, in a lab, in contrived scenarios.
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However, he was imprisoned in 2015 on terrorism charges — which his supporters say were contrived.
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The ideas seem to flow from her unconscious, not from some contrived post-textual analysis.
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B. It feels contrived to name Last of Us a best game of the decade.
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In the end, "The Healing Sevens" was propulsive, flashy and more than a little contrived.
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All modesty — either real or contrived to guard against exposure — was absent from the man.
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The direction and script seem contrived to get filming over with as quickly as possible.
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It sounded then like something to avoid: contrived whimsy, quirk for quirk's sake, unserious and unimportant.
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Her real deal is much more compelling than the contrived bullshit that celebrities pull every day.
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It was in no way a contrived, crafted pop masterpiece that we sat down and specified.
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But the "roughness" of the sequence is painstakingly contrived, making it a true labor of love.
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For a startling moment, I feel like Truman incredulously encountering a corny or contrived plot point.
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While other critics, like Mashable's Angie Han, say the sequel feels contrived, forced, and thoroughly unimaginative.
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It never feels contrived, because the stories seem spontaneous, as natural as a train of thought.
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This example may sound contrived, but the idea underpins every tax bill and every trade agreement.
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But a contrived version of yourself is essentially a watered down version of your natural greatness.
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Further, measures of profitability for purposes of the covenant compliance are getting more and more contrived.
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Little does he know... It would be easy for Ek Ladki to feel contrived or campy.
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If you know too much of what's gonna happen—if you're too prepared, it becomes contrived.
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Hitler was a buffoon of ruthless intuitions who contrived to take the world down with him.
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But there's something cathartic about its Purple America spirit, contrived and reductive as it can be.
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But even capable actors can't make this play plausible or mend the contrived and sentimental conclusion.
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Trump's gestures of goodwill came across as contrived, made-for-TV political choreography and empty rhetoric.
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Every situation, no matter how controlled, contrived or mundane, was an opportunity to make something real.
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The problem is more with a process that is at best contrived and at worst tortured.
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Even at a hefty two-and-a-half hours, the film makes these experiences seem contrived.
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As you survey your living room, look for areas that seem too empty or too contrived.
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These images feel like Alba ran out of ideas, making the work feel contrived and lifeless.
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Gonzalez contains his love of screen excess with a deliberation that never feels contrived or cheap.
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Despite these vying methods of applying paint, the scene does not fall apart or appear contrived.
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How could I create something that would be representative of African culture and not be contrived?
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" Stahl's remark about Trump's attacks being contrived was made public the same day as The Boston Globe reported that some of the grammatical, punctuation and capitalization errors in Trump's tweets are also contrived "to fortify the belief within his base that he has the common touch.
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"You can't read this record without sensing that this -- this need is a contrived one," she added.
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The book ends on a ominous, though contrived, statement by Superman — he's never had a dream before.
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It was athletic storytelling at the highest level, contrived drama so good that the real melted away.
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Sequels tend to fall flat and attempts to modernize old-school favorites often feel contrived and silly.
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Some critics, even at the time it was first published, considered the book contrived and overly melodramatic.
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The justices were again being asked to decide a contrived constitutional nuance in a severely divided country.
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"Her style is so easy and not contrived," said Normant, who met Meghan through friends last year.
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Watch if you like ensemble casts, California, Reform Judaism or lyrical storytelling that's poetic without being contrived.
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Maybe I could … realize that the idea was both contrived and made the grid feel like sponcon.
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In that context, the movies' resolutions, however contrived, may feel less cheap and more like a bargain.
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In a novel as contrived and uneven as this one, the human touches go a long way.
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He partakes in some moves that are perhaps inevitable tools of the trade but still feel contrived.
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We can't use half-contrived statistics about a century-old pandemic to predict what will happen today.
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It's capacious and effortless, since anything too structured, too clingy or contrived, would be trying too hard.
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Just as I, an athlete from an earlier generation, wonder about the repercussions of a contrived reality.
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Finite fields and prime polynomials might seem contrived, of little use in learning about numbers in general.
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A New Yorker, he contrived to channel the frustrations of the heartland, a remarkable sleight of hand.
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Anniversaries can be contrived because time carries on and I don't want to dwell on the past.
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Pazcki are the easiest to differentiate among this contrived selection of doughy goods, because they're basically doughnuts.
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If it works, it's partly because of the easy allure of authenticity narratives, even the most contrived.
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I find the often clunky, contrived food references to be one of the series' most endearing qualities.
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The Supreme Court ruled that administration officials had given a "contrived" here rationale for including the question.
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Then you need a fight or argument, or at least a misunderstanding (the more contrived the better).
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But I imagine a better world where my Instagram captions are less contrived and require far less effort.
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Taught that reading is simply about searching contrived stories for particular "text features," they learn to hate reading.
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Most MCU movies offer but one chaste consolation kiss, often between characters whose romance is contrived at best.
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" In a press statement, CERN states that the video is "a work of fiction showing a contrived scene.
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The complexities of both the plot and the action simply won't allow it without the device becoming contrived.
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It's a simple premise that could have worked if it weren't so contrived and repetitive on Perry's part.
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In all their contrived falsity, they manage to be more alive, more true, than anything else on TV.
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Critics see the park as a dangerous, even cruel, gimmick contrived for adrenaline junkies raised on reality television.
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Mr. Sanders lambasted her on that, and Dana Bash, the moderator, made her excuses look contrived and foolish.
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Generally, critics and some audience members faulted the legal drama for its heavy-handed dialogue and contrived plotlines.
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But I thought the best way to advance the discussion was not to have some completely contrived format.
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Sometimes TV characters' crises feel contrived and easy to solve — Why don't you just tell him the truth?
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Instead, it ends up feeling contrived by filmmakers driven more by provocative imagery than inspiring a reflective conversation.
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Federal judges in three lawsuits have concluded that the Trump administration's rationale for adding the question was contrived.
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Never mawkish or contrived, it's an absolutely authentic depiction of how friendship can overcome adolescent anxiety and grief.
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A subplot involving the sexual abuse of a young child is not particularly upsetting, just crude and contrived.
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When he was only 14, he contrived an airplane de-icer, which was reproduced in Popular Mechanics magazine.
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The last has become so severe (and so contrived) that even carrying a cut onion around doesn't help.
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But not everything beautifully done makes sense beyond its immediate context, and often the context seems woefully contrived.
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The term carves the world neatly into parts: There are real concerns, and there are contrived, theatrical ones.
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But those opinions should be based on facts that demonstrate truth — not contrived narratives designed by partisan ideologues.
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The Supreme Court called that rationale "contrived" when it blocked the question's addition to the census in June.
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The only person to use the word "contrived" and emphasize the possible pretextual grounds was Justice Elena Kagan.
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I contrived a raspberry-marshmallow malt that was hoisted through my car window in a nine-inch vessel.
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" Corbyn, Berger suggested, has contrived to make British Jews different in some way, a process she called "othering.
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" The four liberal justices joined Roberts in concluding: "Accepting contrived reasons would defeat the purpose of the enterprise.
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The split-second, ultra-dramatic resolutions toward the end feel as contrived and artificial as the end of Argo.
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Though it could be oppressive when ideological correctness led to contrived, even nonsensical, connections, it has produced innumerable successes.
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Problem is, most of the scripts associated with video game adaptations are contrived, if not straight up ridiculously mishandled.
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" Kagan agreed, telling Francisco that "you can't read this record without sensing that this need is a contrived one.
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I confess that before I visited Nitally's, I thought their whole Thai-Mex fusion cuisine thing sounded pretty contrived.
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At times, Booksmart feels a bit more contrived and cartoonish than the very best of its teen-comedy subgenre.
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I didn't want things to be contrived or forced, but in the end it all came together very organically.
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Instead, they've quickly gone from controversial to contrived and back again, with mixed messages about where she stands politically.
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Opening your email in a way that's too familiar (asking how their loved ones are, for example) feels contrived.
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They are performers whose practices are not contrived — they really stay true to themselves and their respective performative manifestos.
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Those are the roots of the sport, but playing up the outlaw punk image today seems contrived to Richards.
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It all feels contrived to exploit Shannon's self-destructive pattern of turning to food to deal with her emotions.
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It was the most contrived version of forcing simplicity and in the midst of hot chaos, I found quiet.
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What of the urgency of a "new Toronto" that feels more like a contrived fable than a tangible future?
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Nothing about Juiceboxxx's performance felt contrived: the spitting on stage, falling into the crowd, rolling around on the floor.
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The chemistry that should have been there (USED to be there) was replaced with contrived roadblocks and petty jealousies.
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Rather, it was contrived to burnish the mainstream media claim to political neutrality, and the neutrality of parent companies.
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The fate of Jenn, for example, who dies in spectacular circumstances midway through the play, seems a little contrived.
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The entire idea feels incredibly artificial — even more contrived than the fictionalized reality of the rest of these films.
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Here's the recipe now: (1) Publish a poll contrived to suggest the result you are going to bring about.
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So, his admission on Friday was too little, too late; too contrived, too strategic and too lacking in context.
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The rest of "Tristesse," however, seemed entirely derivative, contrived, a not-quite-sincere exercise in various kinds of charm.
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It's a drama that plays as a comedy, and vice versa, with crises that feel both real and contrived.
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In each case, the situations she establishes are part real, part contrived, and, when viewed from the sidelines, remote.
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What I saw instead was a contrived social divisiveness and an enthusiastic advocacy of behavior without mother's apron strings.
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This feels natural if the couple treks on a regular basis but borders on contrived to less outdoorsy people.
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Judging from Mr. Giuliani's contrived and ham-handed delivery, it seems likely that this was a highly coordinated affair.
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Nonetheless, presidents are politically rewarded by rallying the nation around the flag during military crises, both real and contrived.
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Can he protect his daughter by supporting the apparent Korean-friendliness of the Dodgers, or is that too contrived?
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Still, its format often felt contrived, with direct addresses to the audience summarizing complex events, and aimless musical interludes.
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A convenient, contrived clash with the shore-leave zombies brought out some impressive teamwork, pointing toward a future collaboration.
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Google's machine is a special-purpose device that was designed to solve a contrived problem with few practical uses.
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" On Friday, the NRA's outside counsel slammed the report from Senate Democrats as a "politically motivated and contrived narrative.
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"You can't read the record without sensing that this need is a contrived one," liberal Justice Elena Kagan said.
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By all accounts, the entire plan was contrived and written in the White House without inter-agency or legal review.
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He also interviewed her about her contrived volunteer work, suggesting she pretend she'd been on the ground for a month.
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Kaspi leans toward the black hole model, but Brian Metzger, an astrophysicist at Columbia University, feels that it's somewhat contrived.
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Painter Cynthia Talmadge successfully captures the inherent grimness of funeral chapels combined with the contrived austerity that celebrity deaths demand.
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Aided by a contrived rape fantasy and an all-white jury, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were acquitted of murder.
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She was beautiful in a manner that did not seem contrived or calculated and I wanted to look like that.
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If a character's suddenly spouting information that's supposed to bring you up to date, it can seem artificial or contrived.
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Then, over the course of Buffett's third 2403-year period, we contrived to increase our national debt by about 40,000%.
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On the other, their advertising copy contrived to persuade their customers that ageing was not only undesirable, but somehow shameful.
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The first quantum supremacy demonstration will almost certainly be a contrived problem that won't have a practical or consumer use.
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GM said in a statement it would fight the settlement in court, calling it a "contrived scheme" doomed to fail.
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And yet the secretary's chosen phrase of "Trumped-up trickle-down" came off as contrived and too clever by half.
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" Nature documentaries promise that kind of insight, he said, "but then cheat by using contrived narratives and too many cuts.
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"Nothing's contrived or fabricated with him," said Maddon, who was the bench coach with the Angels when Lackey came up.
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This gets a bit confusing, since a different majority of justices went on to find that Ross contrived that rationale.
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In less sophisticated hands, Duncan's yearning, frolicking, diaphanous steps can feel contrived or saccharine, but Ms. Mearns makes them thrilling.
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"You can only do the sexy stepmom or babysitter—these contrived roles that are cookie-cutter—so much," she said.
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But in winnowing out the last traces of contrived situation comedy, Mr. Simon may also have thrown away situation itself.
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Though everyone understands "The Bachelor" is contrived, there are "Bachelor" winners who have been married for more than a decade.
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As far as holidays go, Prime Day is contrived, crass and extremely effective (the company's ''biggest day ever,'' it says).
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They were fake, but CGI had crossed the uncanny valley: They contrived to look more real than their human customers.
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There were thousands of clapping hands and declarations of love, while the band avoided a contrived homage to the victims.
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He loved their self-conscious carriage and their talk, the swingy three-quarters-contrived vocabulary of threat, loyalty, and doom.
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Even Maura's friends Shea and Davina sense that their sister is irritatingly contrived in the now infamous "yas queen" scene.
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Photo by Pete Kiehart The applause after each song was short but heartfelt; the music sounded professional, yet also contrived.
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All this noise, and rush, and stress seem contrived to cover up some fear at the center of our lives.
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The 2015-16 campaign was Spurs' best in decades, yet they still contrived to finish behind Arsenal on the final day.
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But that's not likely to be enough, thanks to an electoral system contrived by racist delegates more than a century ago.
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"The recent spike in RIN prices appears contrived and driven by something other than basic supply-demand fundamentals," the association said.
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" The big picture: The Supreme Court ruled last week that the Trump administration's rationale for including the citizenship question was "contrived.
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It contrived ways of limiting the power of the state through parliament and the common law before any other big country.
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This is an epic humanitarian tragedy requiring a political solution, not a contrived military one with Washington in the cross hairs.
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That figure would alarm tax authorities, because multinationals sometimes charge themselves contrived prices to shift profits out of high-tax jurisdictions.
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In a feature-length documentary, you don't always have the ability to shift focus like that without it feeling contrived. Yes.
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Which makes sense, given that the debt immersive sims and their ubiquitous and endearingly contrived audio logs owe to radio dramas.
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Investigators also sought evidence that BT Italy and suppliers contrived sale-and-leaseback transactions to artificially boost sales and profit margins.
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This makes it both highly valuable, and a rare opportunity to have undivided focus, but also often an artificial, contrived situation.
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By that I mean it was contrived and soulless and hosted by a couple personalities to whom I felt no draw.
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Never had I heard anybody sneak a Morrissey lyric into an interview and it not sound contrived until I met him.
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We have already seen this in a general way using contrived social media postings in an attempt to affect voter behavior.
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So things have to go wrong to generate drama, and some of the mishaps imagined by The Journey feel pretty contrived.
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Of course, it's no accident that the name sounds just like "capture," making this word an example of a "contrived acronym."
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There is nothing false or contrived about watching Waterson stiffen up and set aside her own pain to ease her daughter's.
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This satirical anti-anime riffs on the trope of invincible heroes who defeat insanely powerful enemies with inexplicable, contrived power-ups.
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If Holman takes off his shirt after the first song of every gig, he's worried that it's going to become contrived.
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In the world of optimism that is Silicon Valley — real or contrived — the memo stands out for its bluntness and honesty.
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And though the monologue is delivered well by Brenda Pressley as Constance, the circumstances that make it one are notably contrived.
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Many of the movie's most memorable dialogue involving Bogart's cutting witticisms and Jones's contrived innocence can be found in Cockburn's novel.
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Mashing limp romance and artless satire into a ludicrously contrived plot, "The Clapper" lurches from one mirthlessly eccentric scene to another.
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There's another camp that suggests that while the circumstances on most shows are contrived, the contestants' emotional responses are deeply real.
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In "An Ideal Husband," accommodation and even forgiveness are pitted against rigid morality in a series of deliciously contrived dramatic conflicts.
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It was a storytelling device that reflected the endearing, if slightly contrived, makeup of the "Star Trek" franchise's most popular character.
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Sometime after Congress refused to fund the program, the administration contrived the theory that it could spend money without an appropriation.
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But he changed his mind -- and his vote -- because he believed the administration's rationale for adding the citizenship question was contrived.
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The erotic and psychological crosscurrents among this foursome occupy the play's second part, which is its most contrived and least convincing.
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" Spayd complained that some of the videos were "plagued by technical malfunctions, feel contrived, drone on too long … or are simply boring.
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Other times, I do feel like they need to have a whole 'rainbow' of talent, which is fine, but feels more contrived.
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It has occurred to me that perhaps some people feel certain images are contrived because their composition makes them feel like tableaux.
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" The Mass Effect games always impressed me with their willingness for weirdness, but now the general theme seems to be "contrived badassery.
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His striking sense of color and light, and his inventiveness, allow Zoraidez to create projects that seem tangible, yet also strangely contrived.
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Up until the early 1990s, theoretical computer scientists devised contrived problems for quantum computers, and useful tasks, like Shor's algorithm, came later.
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So when she announced that she was quitting social media because she found it "contrived, fake and forced," O'Neill shocked her fans.
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Each regret always somehow resonates with her current situation, but the show manages to be wistful and gentle, not corny or contrived.
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The cases are unsurprising, the central characters' back stories are contrived, and the show's efforts to be sexy and saucy are clumsy.
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I think doing it right instead of doing it in a contrived fashion is also something that we're focusing on as well.
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But if pre-beach styling sounds too contrived (reminiscent of achingly thematic Coachella "festival fashion"), there are practical benefits to styling, too.
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Our biggest hesitations were IN YOU and the slightly contrived GUN USERS, but both of those seem doable with a good clue.
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The revision that was requested was the removal from the SE of the exclamation AM I BEAT, which was deemed too contrived.
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Mr. Rüping has other tricks up his sleeve, which seem contrived to alienate the audience as much as to engage with it.
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JON CARAMANICA Madonna's 21st-century albums have been wildly inconsistent: a single that touches a nerve alongside a lot of contrived collaborations.
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Greenbaum's genius resides in her ability to bring all kinds of binaries into play, without making them look contrived, collaged or quotational.
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I wish Ward had not employed the tricks of lesser novelists, such as contrived cliffhangers and misdirection in order to engender suspense.
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His shows are notoriously long, intricately contrived collages of texts, which have sometimes been likened to long-haul flights with numerous detours.
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According to Carl Philipp Emanuel, Bach twice tried to arrange a meeting with Handel, but the latter contrived to make himself unavailable.
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That's quite a contrast to her rambling and contrived live-streamed announcement from her kitchen that she would be entering the race.
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"Trump has exposed the inadequacy and fallibility of decades-old domestic political strategy of governing by polls and contrived expectations," she said.
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Our Fight to Save America From Washington," Mr. Perry called the established science of human-caused climate change a "contrived, phony mess.
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Whereas restoration efforts felt contrived in other parts of the country, in Jeddah the splendor of restored houses added to the atmosphere.
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The Kardashians for all their gender changes, naked selfies, contrived feuds and feverish pursuit of notoriety are pathetic amateurs compared with Trump.
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He then piled ignominy upon idiocy by rewarding party hacks who had contrived to lose an unlosable campaign with ambassadorships and lordships galore.
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But the strange, obviously contrived shape of District 12 is not evidence, by itself, that the state used race illicitly in drawing boundaries.
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The goal was for Plainfield to finish the season undefeated and go on to play in the contrived Blackboard Bowl in Atlantic City.
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In a telephone interview from Britain, where she is studying, Gui's daughter Angela, 21, said her father's televised confession appeared "ridiculous" and contrived.
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Nothing in Reichardt's movie is so contrived, the filmmaker preferring to explain little and to leave everything slightly loose, especially each chapter's ending.
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The question seemed dead in June, when the Supreme Court blocked it, saying the administration had given a "contrived" rationale for its inclusion.
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Wisconsin must resolve any election "disputes" (even contrived ones) by December 13 so that it's results will be deemed conclusive under federal law.
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The second suggestion met resistance from Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, who said it would encourage police officers to stop vehicles for contrived reasons.
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She has a racist past, yet her contrived-for-the-tabloids smooch with Black Cindy (Adrienne Moore) leads to real, if fraught, camaraderie.
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She felt like everything about her life as a University of South Carolina sorority girl was contrived, but she lived in the house.
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It's such a strangely contrived environment — all the trappings of a dance party, minus the party — and yet way more fun than running.
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None of this makes sense, and normally I'd say it's difficult trying to keep up with the latest iteration of Dalton's contrived personality.
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Although interested in the clashing voices of London, of homegrown Grime music, the book itself is as tidy and contrived as a suburb.
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The crumbling of the contrived boundaries among these sounds and audiences — between "black" and "white" influences — was a welcome consequence of the internet.
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My father, it appears, was not naturally connubial, and even in the early years of marriage contrived to be more absent than present.
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Worse, the contrived narrative that the shows collectively push — the idea that Harry and Meghan's romance is "a fairy tale" — is jarringly backward.
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Yet several plot points tend toward the contrived and would likely be more believable onstage, with the special intimacy that theater can afford.
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But there was something about that idealized vision of the cocoon that seemed contrived; was it also cloying, or confining, or implicitly fragile?
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Critics deride the policy as a contrived excuse to overpay for over-the-hill stars who saunter through their final years before retirement.
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Guessing also becomes cumbersome for quadratics with large numbers, and it only works neatly for problems that are contrived to have integer answers.
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And he smoothly talked around questions that he preferred not to answer, particularly one on how much of his image-making is contrived.
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In one particularly contrived scene, Garland spends a quiet evening at the apartment of a gay couple who call themselves her biggest fans.
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His efforts at outreach often seemed ham-fisted or contrived, and they left a series of insults and mini-scandals in their wake.
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If the film were strictly fictional, it probably wouldn't work at all, because it would feel strenuously contrived in order to garner sympathy.
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He contrived various moneymaking add-ons, such as charging $10 for a 30-degree slope, or offering to clear up the cut grass.
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"There's some contrived dialogue, and not all of the performances are at the same level," Margaret Lyons wrote in The New York Times.
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It wasn't simply the excruciatingly twee musical choices, or the well-worn trajectory of a plot as contrived as its woolly-hatted heroine.
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The New York trial had convincingly demonstrated that Ross's "sole stated reason" for including the citizenship question was a "contrived" pretext, Roberts argued.
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With Clinton, it's that she's always out to get ahead and has a contrived political façade covering up whatever the "real Hillary" is.
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"It's so tricky to thread this needle, because if you have a fresh and unexpected ending that's contrived, that doesn't work either," Weisberg says.
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Attackers' reasons tended to be contrived -- deeming perfectly legal actions by a black person to be out-of-line, according to Monroe Work Today.
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However, there are also brands that have waded into politics only to receive backlash for campaigns that are perceived to be contrived or inauthentic.
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Media interviews with various cast members have already taught us that much of what seemed real on the show was actually staged or contrived.
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In my 2250 years on ESPN and my going on three weeks here on Fox Sports 2300, I have never ever contrived one debate.
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Though it can be contrived, Grown-ish offers its disparate protagonists some much needed common ground in a time when that can seem scarce.
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In the film, Mcrae puts her body through various extreme experiences at the fictitious Institute of Isolation, a kind of self-contrived astronaut training.
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Significantly more happens this season, much of it absurd and contrived, but at least it's better than a total absence of on-screen incident.
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In terms of humour, "Veere Di Wedding" works well, but it stutters when it comes to the emotional conflicts, which feel unreal and contrived.
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This is a challenge to be faced not with a contrived campaign makeover, but with a far greater investment of candor before the public.
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The McCarran-Walter Act, passed over President Harry Truman's veto in 1952, contrived to renew the bar against almost all Asians and most Jews.
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"It may feel a little bit contrived at first, but like of like a language, you'll become more comfortable with it and embrace it."
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Some coincidences, like Claudette's glimpse of Daniel's family through a New York window years before they meet in Ireland, feel overly patterned and contrived.
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Ms. Blackwell estimated that over the ensuing years she was jailed at least 21965 times on contrived charges, and often humiliated, assaulted and beaten.
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Netflix's Seven Seconds is the contrived, misery-riddled show I can't stop watching Inside Israel's campaign to deport tens of thousands of African migrants
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One of the things that social media taps into is precisely this dysfunction, because it gives us an audience that feels real, however contrived.
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" In a coincidence so apt as to seem contrived, when Lopez turned to a random page his eyes fell on the words "Only connect.
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They hope that Senate Republicans will resist the temptation to offer a trial that is as cursory and as contrived as the House investigation.
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I read your column online and always seem to draw a comparison to Hustler magazine's Forum because so many of the letters seem contrived.
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Coxsey was critical when the IOC announced that climbing would be added to the Tokyo programme — saying the three-format event was rather contrived.
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Franken's sleazy justification for verbal misconduct — "I was a comedian" — suggests his liberal celebrity was all along a contrived myth, disguising latent toxic masculinity.
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Mr. McMahon conceded that the case against Mr. Cummings represents a "hard standard" to prove in court, but that it was far from contrived.
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There are other, more contrived invitations to ruminate, such as the pendulum that hangs from the ceiling and trickles sand into a shallow box.
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Members of Congress are not unique in acting inconsistently with their authentic long-term goals and in rationalizing daily departures with contrived self-deceptions.
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To the Reagan Justice Department, disparate impact was a "rhetorical misappropriation" of the word "discrimination" — a "contrived theory" that only perpetuates injustice and inequality.
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All dating shows are contrived, but the contrivances on "Dating Around" are not preposterous, designed to shock or entertain — in fact, they're depressingly familiar.
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Compared to the tired and contrived hyperrealisitic images of desolation and despair we've grown so accustomed to, these paintings of Detroit feel more real.
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But so far, it doesn't sound like New Beginnings will be quite as contrived as the original show was, and that's probably for the best.
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Across the room, a hard-edge abstract painting propped against a wall looks contrived and inert compared to the sinuous geometry of her living body.
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Conversations, especially those contrived for the camera, demand good faith and a sense of shared reality — precisely the decencies that a conspiracy theorist cannot concede.
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When shy artists retreat into themselves, it can be viewed as rude, moody and ungrateful and the claim of not wanting attention can seem contrived.
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Photos of the frat's "multicultural" event over the weekend surfaced on Sunday, showing the young men dressed as gang members and flashing contrived gang signs.
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He also contrived to turn $12 million of loans to a company called Groen Brothers Aviation into a total debt, after interest, of $150 million.
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Only in advertisements, in gold paintings of saints, and on Minimalism's flat canvases does illumination touch all surfaces equitably, with a contrived but glorious beneficence.
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If the government wants to ask census-takers if they are citizens, it needs to come up with a justification that is "reasoned", not "contrived".
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Chief Justice John Roberts called that argument "contrived" in his opinion blocking the question — at least for now — from being added to the census questionnaire.
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His flatmate replies with a defence of the gay-rights struggle and a warning about internalised homophobia that could easily seem contrived in another show.
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For his part, Kushner has offered to comply fully with any investigation and answer all questions, but he is nevertheless the victim of contrived criminality.
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And there is something contrived—Forrest Gumpish—in the way the character always gives Chabon an opportunity to introduce exciting factoids of 20th century history.
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The performance isn't much of a surprise considering how aggressively Amazon discounts and promotes its own electronic products each time the contrived date rolls around.
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I just assume Carol will come back in some contrived way meant to emphasize how she's either right or wrong about her stance on killing.
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"Our concern is that the calculation that was done by the Copenhagen group was contrived to get the result they wanted to get," Green said.
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As with Modi's demonetization drive, the apparent suddenness of the decision to remove Article 370 and carve Kashmir up into two administrative units is contrived.
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At the same time, the scenario was extravagantly contrived: the castaways were shadowed by camera crews, and helicopters thundered around the island, gathering aerial shots.
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The problem is when the momentum starts to build and self-perpetuate until there's a whole cloud of contrived controversy with nothing at the core.
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"None of the above-described events were real, but were contrived and orchestrated by defendants to manufacture drama for their show," the restaurant's attorneys say.
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Coming as it does on the heels of "Pink" last week, "Parched" seems a little too contrived to be a memorable tale of women empowerment.
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Slaves aren't a contrived band, but are aware that some people think they might be, so they seem to be constantly contriving to be uncontrived.
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Sutton Foster sang a song from "The Sound of Music" earlier this season in a moment that was charming but contrived, like the show itself.
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Perhaps more contrived, but still effective: the moment we first hear the normally silent Michael's voice, which doesn't come until the season is nearly over.
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The court called the Trump administration's justification for the question "contrived" but left open the possibility that the question could be added in the future.
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Dependent on all manner of mirroring, both felicitous and contrived, the slim volume Friedlander published before "The American Monument" was a collection of self-portraits.
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Ms. Dunye's loose, confident approach to characterizations makes the political issues play in a narratively organic way rather than as a series of contrived polemics.
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"Incident on video appears staged contrived by alleged VT [victim]," referring to Alan Grayson, read a document approved by Assistant State Attorney Rebekah Shanai Taylor.
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That's a valid perspective, but the movie shortchanges it with creaky plot mechanics, including a bit of contrived foreshadowing that only a screenwriter could love.
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I consistently tried to preserve them, no matter what it takes, and avoid a certain contrived formality, which is an established convention in modern design.
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It's a highly contrived scenario, but from within its artificial limits a surprisingly naturalistic portrait of what it's like to communicate through the internet emerges.
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Otherwise I would have had to make a drawing with a hole in it, and I didn't like that idea; it would have been contrived.
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True, every character finds a home when the music stops, but for one or two of the less-developed characters that neatness can feel contrived.
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The ones I submitted were quite contrived and basically made the revealer unnecessary (I think I was still subconsciously resisting the idea of a revealer).
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In fact, if the film was strictly fictional, it probably wouldn't work at all, because it would feel strenuously contrived in order to garner sympathy.
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Kropivnitsky only acknowledges his early work, which is excessively literary, contrived, overly romantic, and all riddled with banalities like the face of a pockmarked crone.
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He contrived to see off Paris St.-Germain in the last 16 of the Champions League, setting up a quarterfinal matchup with Barcelona next month.
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This creates a sugar high of satisfaction - a false sensation of being on offense for once, rather than being on defense about some contrived controversy.
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In fact, the 90th Academy Awards marked the end of an awards season that felt very contrived and hypocritical in its stance on issues of diversity.
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Let me ask you this: How Democrats can engage white working-class voters in a way that connects, that doesn't feel inauthentic or contrived or patronizing.
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In reality, it plays as nothing more than a contrived reason to put two neglected characters on-screen for more than 30 seconds at a time.
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" In a section of the opinion joined by the court's four liberals, Roberts wrote that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross's explanation for adding the question was "contrived.
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Chief Justice John Roberts called the administration's arguments in favor of the question "contrived" and a "distraction," and sent the case back to a lower court.
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A few others looked like possibilities, but they seemed contrived rather than realistic, and they were so complex that their status as amplifiers couldn't be proved.
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"If you step back and think about it, I can't quite explain what [a spreadsheet] is, I have to find a contrived use case," Mehrotra said.
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Foster has seen it all before, and so has the Doctor (Barbara Marten, who plays several roles), but their patience and knowingness feel contrived to Emma.
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Repeated instances of contrived stories of assault, of which there have been multiple recently, eventually cast a shadow of doubt in the public over authentic allegations.
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The digitally contrived effect in which 9-foot gods mix it up with normal-size mortals suggests nothing so much as celebrities slumming with their fans.
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Donnersmarck gestures at the interplay of fate and creativity with the wind-blown shutters, but in his hands that bit of chance comes out as contrived.
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But the progress of their relationship is contrived, and the proceedings have the air of a tit-for-tat argument even when the characters aren't yelling.
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Thirty years of "Control" is a useful, if contrived, excuse to argue for Ms. Jackson's necessity, especially as someone who knew the power of an image.
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But when Amtrak's leaders stand to benefit through performance bonuses tied to budget benchmarks, forgive us for thinking that this ode to fiscal responsibility sounds contrived.
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The effect is a distinctly digital creation, layering swatches of bright color behind a model of still lifes, which was initially contrived in the real world.
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The cut screened for me and other critics ended with a contrived but emotionally effective coup de théâtre that dares the viewer to call it cheap.
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The tone, perfectly conveyed in Edith Grossman's virtuoso translation, is amused and theatrical — realism that never asks the reader to forget it has been neatly contrived.
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You can sense how closely they worked together, but the effect is contrived, as is the busy choreography for the group known as the Workers Chorus.
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And while the band was clearly leaning on the confessional lyrical apathy of Seo Taiji and his early successors, it all seemed contrived rather than real.
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He said Mr. Duterte "glaringly contrived" with his peers in Congress and the judiciary to remove a formidable critic who could keep the government in check.
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And at times, the attempt to look at the future of ballet seems more contrived than organic, like the appearances of the street dancer Rauf Yasit.
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"Your contrived process is unprecedented in the history of the nation, and lacks the necessary authorization for a valid impeachment proceeding," the White House counsel wrote.
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It felt a little slapdash for these two professionals, and it wasn't the only thing about the episode that seemed thinner and more contrived than usual.
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But another man, with far more power, a certain Judge Turpin (Duncan Smith), coveted Barker's wife, and contrived to send him off to prison in Australia.
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From that contrived-seeming premise, Wright builds an action-comedy like no other, one that cannily uses its omnipresent soundtrack to narrative, thematic, and stylistic ends.
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"It will certainly draw a bit of attention to them but I think the consumer is wise enough to see it is a bit contrived," Curtis said.
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What stands out, in retrospect, is how contrived the whole operation was, how transparently Hillary Clinton set the trap in the final moments of the presidential debate.
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It felt contrived to blind yourself in order to enjoy the full breadth of a noise—the sonic equivalent to gimmicky "dining in the dark" restaurants, perhaps.
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This said, it's very possible those words could grate—some critical resistance to the band is rooted in Healy's lyrical style, which can feel haphazard or contrived.
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Namely, its preoccupation with contrived beauty and glitz and its vulnerability to nature's impositions: the hot gale winds of the Santa Anas, the earthquakes, and the fires.
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But coming up with a new reason that does not seem contrived could be difficult after more than a year of defending the Voting Rights Act explanation.
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In an incident that would surely be deemed contrived even for Keeping Up with the Kardashians, model sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner got stuck in an elevator.
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Omarosa Manigault-Newman has reportedly been fired — this time from her actual job in the Trump White House and not from a contrived one on The Apprentice.
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Two people, both of whom stand to benefit financially from a contrived emotional relationship, do their utmost to convince the cameras that they care about each other.
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As you might expect from a drama where half the characters represent bigger ideas and societal trends, the writing can be heavy-handed and contrived at times.
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It's a moment that's earned by the sheer force of Christine Baranski's performance throughout this entire episode even though the symmetry of it all feels very contrived.
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Where does legitimate displeasure end and drama contrived to create more drama — all of it filmed, stuffed with advertisements and made available to view, of course — begin?
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The reunification has been in the works since 2016 but former bosses Philippe Dauman at Viacom and Les Moonves at CBS resisted and contrived to destroy value.
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The sophomore sensations each downplayed the perceived rivalry, saying the storyline is a convenient one contrived by the media as opposed to the combatants on the ice.
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Last September, another online multiplayer first-person shooter game called Fortnite added a battle royale mode in a hilariously contrived move to compete with PUBG's monolithic success.
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Netflix and other streaming platforms, for whatever reason, seem to be a place where this sort of contrived melodrama is more engrossing than it might be elsewhere.
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They'll learn that in order to amass as much and live as large as he did, Manafort contrived ways to beat the system and fatten his winnings.
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The appearance of the four pianists provide an odd visual contrast: they are all white and their faces are marked with abstract shapes contrived with silver makeup.
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While these sequences allude to the film Visit to Picasso (1949) by Paul Haesaerts and Jackson Pollock 51 (1951) by Hans Namuth, they did not feel contrived.
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But within a few years, there were some who had started to find her schtick contrived, and truthers theorized she was faking her signature red carpet falls.
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For the most part, the contrived nature of the sculptures is apparent: the guns are multicolored, translucent plastic, and the bodies' material creates a sense of unreality.
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In this exhibition, it struck me that what Bradford keeps getting better at is incoherence: she can meld divergent details without coming across as contrived or arbitrary.
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The name, an amalgam of female folkloric figures Baba Yaga (the wise elderwoman of Eastern Europe) and Sheela Na-Gig, (a UK/Irish pagan figure) feels contrived.
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Company executives accused doctors of often undertreating pain (there was something to this, but pharma executives contrived to turn it into a crisis that they could monetize).
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Instead of indulging in back-stabbing theatrics, these videos do something more interesting: show YouTube influencers being transparent about how their lives are extremely curated and contrived.
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The catalogue format occasionally feels contrived, but Goldberg offers a searching consideration of the way that the identities and perceptions of a female artist shift over time.
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The grins and cheers that spontaneously break out in the restaurant feel contrived, as they do whenever Javed uses the words of "the Boss" against his tormentors.
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While this could have been achieved with one trip to the registrar, the film spends all of the second half trying to solve this rather contrived problem.
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It was so different from the so-called romantic comedies of the time, which were often very contrived, and it had such a naturalistic feel to it.
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A barrage of contrived smear stories about Kushner's interactions with CEOs or security clearance dominate -- attacks clearly fueled by those who resent Kushner's plans to change Washington.
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When it comes, the answer may feel somewhat contrived, but on the way to it readers will enjoy this full-bodied novel about a family of vintners.
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"You can't read this record without sensing that this need is a contrived one," she told US Solicitor General Noel Francisco, representing Ross and the Commerce Department.
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Adam Cancryn: Booker and Gabbard trying to jump in on the inevitable "age" question came off as completely contrived and was painful to watch in real time.
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Democrats pressed Mr. Perry for his views on science and climate change, which he once described as "one contrived phony mess," while accusing scientists of manipulating data.
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Given the way this look can easily skew toward the contrived, it could be a problem if he keeps going back to that well, over and over.
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His antics at the weigh-ins, including the presentation of bouquets of flowers for his opponent, are neither as trite nor contrived as Tom Lawlor's elaborate get ups.
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After all, both Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield came and went before the MCU contrived a technological reason for the eyes on Spider-Man's mask to finally emote.
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The first sex scene between Anne and Gustav pushes boundaries of explicitness, but the physical action is so transparently contrived that it's very nearly ridiculous rather than shocking.
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So the quantum computer beat the classical one soundly on the most contrived, lopsided task imaginable, like pitting an apple versus an orange in a "best citrus" competition.
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" He comments about "how helpless desire is outside its little theater of heat, how ridiculous it becomes the moment it isn't welcomed, even if that welcome is contrived.
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It is a curious plot that might feel contrived were it not based on a true story, but Ms McCarthy's probing performance does much to keep things believable.
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Unfortunately, Matt Williams's slack psychological thriller, "Fear," offers plenty of opportunities not just to ponder inconsistencies and contrived plot twists, but also to sneak glances at your watch.
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The plots were contrived — they always seemed to involve something about identify theft, a controlling boyfriend, a crazed neighbor, or a lurking ex — but the dullness didn't matter.
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This is a great method for learning what you need to cover, but don't try to memorize and recite it word for word — your delivery shouldn't feel contrived.
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I filtered out his emails and blocked his text messages, but some communications always managed to slip through as Danny contrived new usernames and methods to harass me.
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As in so many middlebrow period dramas, the vintage cars are too shiny, the clothes too smart, the upper-class accents too strained and the dialogue too contrived.
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Given her ability to improbably escape from elaborately contrived peril, it's surprising that she's never really gone up against the character who would be a natural archnemesis: Arcade.
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That is why it is remarkable that an international team of more than 200 radio astronomers have, through years of painstaking work, actually contrived a glimpse of one.
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"Instead of saying 'you guys are spending billions of dollars to implement this contrived problem,' the answer is that we have to first build the foundations," Fefferman said.
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And to be, in a contrived way, actually advocating, hey, look, this is what we need to do so we can all get together on the same page.
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Unlike a real neighborhood, which implies some kind of social collaboration or collective expression of belonging, Hudson Yards is a contrived place that was never meant for us.
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"I counted four episodes that ended with a very slow-moving, sloppy, contrived action scene," Repino says in Episode 324 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast.
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All sports drama is contrived but with the one game wild card playoff the machinations of catering to an impatient, short-attention span audience feel especially heavy-handed.
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His speaking voice also has a numbingly consistent and contrived cadence that makes one suspect that he has studied, in vain, one too many tapes of JFK's delivery.
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" Longtime New York Times columnist and New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich pounced, tweeting, "Is there anything Gillibrand has done that is not contrived and opportunistic?
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"I also honestly think I am first and foremost — this sounds terrible, it sounds contrived, but it's really real — I think I am a supporting actor," he said.
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Michael Winerip, The New York Times: A few times in the last four chapters, the storytelling begins to sputter, and there are twists I found irritating and contrived.
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"The cases are unsurprising, the central characters' back stories are contrived, and the show's efforts to be sexy and saucy are clumsy," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The Times.
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The Supreme Court last week blocked the inclusion of the question, saying administration officials had given a "contrived" rationale for including the query in the decennial population survey.
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A slew of contrived, soapy drama involving Ray's absentee father and mom Maggie's salacious past takes center stage while Ray, the most compelling character, fades into the background.
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The idea, which relates to quantum field theory, is technical, but the high-level sense is that the various numerical constants governing the universe shouldn't look too contrived.
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The chief justice and the four Democratic-appointed justices, however, said they could not ignore evidence that Secretary Ross "contrived" that sole rationale for adding the citizenship question.
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At this point, we know that much of The Hills was totally contrived by the network and its producers — the romance, the breakups, the cat fights and all.
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In this exhibition, it struck me that what Katherine Bradford keeps getting better at is incoherence: she can meld divergent details without coming across as contrived or arbitrary.
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Still photographs capture the private determination and personal integrity of their subjects in a way that, upon revisiting, makes selfies and iPhone pictures feel fleeting, contrived and manufactured.
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Santiago Abascal, the Vox leader, contrived a near-perfect political and cultural synthesis for the current gestalt: a virulent rejection of immigrants and a strident defense of bullfights.
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Though the sequence is a lot more contrived than the music, its point — this helpless, unpolished little outburst of impulsive high spirits when alone in nature — is pleasing.
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Another is staking out an imagined noble duty to a contrived higher authority — one that looks strikingly similar to the image he sees in the mirror each morning.
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And now we've suffered through a contrived date created specifically to cause further damage to two women, one of whom continually asked to remove herself from the situation.
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The long, fat end of Mr. Trump's tie, flapping in the breeze like an advertising banner or swinging far beneath his belt, is both overly contrived and disproportionate.
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Or is it part of a contrived performance, designed to deploy the symbols of power while rejecting the conventions of civility that have traditionally defined and constrained them?
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Fox Sports had given him great latitude to carry out his vision — one that unapologetically veered from traditional broadcast fare and instead embraced combustible, and often contrived, argumentation.
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I'm skeptical on that… To all of a sudden jump in and do some of these fancy things, it seems almost contrived, forced, or desperate on some level.
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There are contrived shots where these ad hoc investigators slowly turn around in the Armory galleries, shining a flashlight on the building's gleaming tiles and lacquered wood decorations.
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While it's sure to feature sights familiar to anyone who's visited the island (like the annual Pines Party), it's also faced criticism for being a bit, well, contrived.
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It makes for suspenseful and moving TV, and Wesley seems to find the conversation rewarding, but we argued about whether the sequence felt more contrived and exploitative than helpful.
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But rumors are swirling that Google is on the verge of testing a 50-qubit machine that will demonstrate this "quantum supremacy" on a classically hard, albeit contrived problem.
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"Whenever I feel that I'm in an environment that just doesn't feel authentic and it feels contrived and fake, I don't like being a part of it," she says.
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It's almost contrived how it turned into a good half-hour of TV. There's literally a ticking clock, and if you don't get the shot in time, you're screwed.
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In Modern Warfare, it means lifting from Kathryn Bigelow's lucid, no bullshit cinematography, which is also contrived but for now reads more like leaked war tapes than Hollywood blockbuster.
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It works closely with Mr Abadi's lot and has contrived to replace Mr Nujaifi as Mosul's governor and his brother as parliament's speaker with their own people, both Jabouris.
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They laid out the rules for a "reboot" on the whiteboard, something contrived that has to fit the "story" of the original but which can also have some changes.
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These variations are necessary to the painting they are used in — despite the free use of unorthodox color and loose, improvisational brushwork, nothing Berryhill does feels arbitrary or contrived.
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In politics he saw that the contest of ideas its participants claimed to be engaged in was really a partisan slugfest almost as contrived and absurd as the WWE.
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In executing their contrived feud, the two pairs of brothers sought to assert their superior manliness through base insults about strength, pain tolerance, attire, material possessions, and sexual prowess.
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Plus, Ryan's Ted Talk-esque conclusion about not capturing the left or center lane but instead capturing the viewers' imaginations was so contrived it made me laugh out loud.
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He had a 10-foot man secretly sculpted, treated it to look old and then buried it in rural New York State, where he contrived to have it found.
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And it is only fitting that I am leaving from New York City, because it is the birthplace of Rocky Colavito, the pivotal figure in Cleveland's own contrived curse.
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Spanning nearly 800 pages and three decades, The Collected Stories of Diane Williams presents domesticity as foreign and contrived, as an arbitrary and risky way to organize one's life.
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Shows like this work best when they depict the competition and become unbearable when they're just talking-head confessionals, contrived spiels and schlocky backstories that scam us into caring.
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It's a tenacity illustrated through a scene in which Churchill goes out amongst them, which somehow manages to be stirring and emotional despite feeling more than a little contrived.
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Now, however, the administration and FCC no longer leave themselves open to the criticism that this major decision was made with a 2-1 majority contrived by partisan operatives.
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The nation's top court said the federal government's rationale for the question "seems to have been contrived" and the government had not given a reasoned explanation for its actions.
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They went to restaurants together and contrived to work together, moving in tandem from one publication to another: The Los Angeles Times, Gourmet, LA Weekly again, The Times again.
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Batshuayi had already contrived to hit the crossbar with the Tunisia goal at his mercy before he finally scored with a deft finish into the corner of the net.
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There are many intersections of politics and popular culture we're used to seeing, and while they always feel contrived, it's usually clear whose rules everyone is expected to obey.
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Under the eyes of German spies, they contrived to switch 26 canisters of heavy water to be transported on a plane bound for Amsterdam to one heading for Scotland.
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"The 'racketeering enterprise' that the government charged today is noting more than contrived repackaging of a handful of civil allegations that are almost 20 years old," a representative said.
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The obsessive celebrity selfies and appearances of her "squad" phase felt contrived, flirting with desperate — despite the fact that she was arguably the most famous person in the world.
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But then the chief justice swerved, and joined by the four liberal justices, said Ross' justification for the citizenship question, tied to enforcing the Voting Rights Act, was contrived.
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The script by Anthony McCarten ("Darkest Hour") can seem contrived and reductive at times, but it gives maximum latitude to the actors, who are a riveting study in contrasts.
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I'm baffled by the design of the company's website, aggravated by the pushy data-thirsty ways of its apps, and unimpressed by the contrived niceness of its founder and boss.
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And it packs in several other strong performances, especially from Maggie Siff as Chuck's wife, Wendy, who works as an in-house therapist for Axe's team at his firm. Contrived?
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Following the signing of the interim nuclear deal in November 2013, Saudi Arabia began devoting its resources to defeating the deal, driven by fear that its contrived Iranophobia was crumbling.
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At the oral argument, Justice Elena Kagan told the solicitor general, Noel Francisco, "you can't really read this record without sensing" that the need for a citizenship query was "contrived".
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NIX THE STAGE SET Setting the dining table with plates, cutlery and glasses, or placing a breakfast tray at the foot of the bed appears too contrived to savvy buyers.
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They zip through everything from the deep grooves of Pepe Bradock, to the ominous clatter of Maurizio, to gloriously chintzy release of Tatsuro Yamashita, without ever sounding contrived or knowing.
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Friston calls this his first scientific insight, a moment when "all these contrived, anthropomorphized explanations of purpose and survival and the like all seemed to just peel away," he says.
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A scene in which a barroom fight and encounter with a woman lead Marshall to an epiphany about the case feels especially contrived, even if it really happened that way.
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The cue was obvious since Lana was warily stabbing at a green bud, but the tone was unexpected, almost contrived, as though he were reading words written inside his head.
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"Bride Of The Lamb," which was recorded with me singing on that piano at my place that December too, sounded too contrived when I tried it again at a studio.
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But, contrived as it may be, Netflix says 'Love Is Blind' has been one of the most popular shows for the network since its 10 episodes dropped in mid-February.
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Instead, the Commerce Department claimed that it needed the question to help the Department of Justice enforce the Voting Right Act — a rationale that the Supreme Court ruled was contrived.
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The problem isn't that their elopement happened too fast; it's that neither character had been fleshed out enough for this act of extreme impulsiveness to seem any way but contrived.
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Occasionally, the contours of a conventional coming-of-age story are visible through the haze, making Ms. Decker's techniques seem as willful and contrived as some of Evangeline's theatrical conceits.
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J.P. Although the Malian guitarist and singer Boubacar Traore has long explored connections between Malian music and blues, the lineup of his new album, "Dounia Tabolo," sounds contrived on paper.
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A winning celebrity profile requires a number of stars aligning: a subject willing to be transparent, a writer interested in challenging received wisdom, a circumstance that's not constrained or contrived.
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Directed with delicacy and fluidity by Saheem Ali, "Kill Move Paradise" is a singularly affecting contribution to a niche genre of theater that often comes across as labored and contrived.
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Whether preparing a lunch for six or 60 guests, Elworthy says, the pair's aesthetic mirrors that of the walled gardens they specialize in designing — nothing is too fussy or contrived.
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To sort this out, let's acknowledge that we already knew that Trump has been prone to making inappropriate remarks; any outpouring of shock over the video seems a tad contrived.
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Mr. Perry also offered a full-throated reversal of his views on the science of human-caused climate change, which he called a "contrived, phony mess" in a 2010 book.
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The problem, per Roberts, wasn't the question itself — it was that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross gave a "contrived" explanation for why he was doing it, rather than a "genuine" one.
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Yvette Simpson, a former Cincinnati City Council member and the CEO of the progressive PAC Democracy for America feels that white Democratic politicians have a set formula that often feels contrived.
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If we allow politicians or activists to make our children forget that important legacy, or to substitute their own contrived vision of history, we risk losing what makes our nation great.
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" It continues, "The stalling is emblematic of a broader modus operandi of the insurers of never-ending post-claim underwriting where the insurers hunt for some contrived excuse not to pay.
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In response to their activism, right-wing outlets have contrived and pushed false reports that the students are actors capitalizing on the tragedy to push a liberal agenda on gun control.
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The lower court found the "serpentine" 12th to be so "contorted and contrived" by the legislature that it may be the least geographically compact of all the nation's many gerrymandered districts.
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Her stump speech, which is based on an idea that America needs more "truth and justice", is a painfully contrived effort to marry her strengths to a critique of Mr Trump.
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It is possible to pull out a checklist and fill in all the boxes on a diversity checklist because these pages are so contrived that there is undoubtedly one of each.
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In fact, it feels contrived, even lazy, to compare any of the aforementioned shows about female millennials, but the diversity of stories coming out of this demographic speaks to its complexity.
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For those who feel like they're missing this type of connection, it's easy to begin developing weak ties—certainly easier and less contrived than trying to find a new best friend.
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In between the ferocious chemistry and the hilarious banter, it takes pains to earn that loaded glance, that hesitant kiss, even that somewhat contrived declaration of love in the third act.
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After his demise, his government put him on trial for tax crimes posthumously in an imaginative perversion of justice that not even Stalin contrived for Old Bolsheviks in the Great Terror.
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Brody's friend and costar, Brandon Thomas Lee, doubled down and told us Thursday night while leaving The Nice Guy ... he thinks Miley and Kaitlynn contrived their makeout sesh to get attention.
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When you grow up in the hood, in comparison to more contrived areas like the suburbs, it doesn't seem diverse but it's more diverse because you have to accept people's differences.
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Then, after a red card for a horrendous foul tackle by Newcastle's striker Aleksandar Mitrovic, the referee gave the home side a penalty kick after what looked like a contrived dive.
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Its stinging connotation was validated in direct proportion to the contrived outrage of opposition politicians and cable news mannequins flopping to the ground and clutching their knees like European soccer players.
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Yet, the attempt to project Julia as a larger-than-life figure sometimes looks contrived and a mere concession to the actress while the real deal is signed with the men.
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Her new show, "Unicorn Gratitude Mystery," is made up of three short pieces that share an exasperation with the habit of taking refuge in fantasy and contrived distractions to avoid reality.
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I think aesthically she is unlike any other friend I have or anyone else I've worked with, because she doesn't care about labels, about brands, about any of the contrived things.
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And a subplot involving Dr. Campbell's real identity, which involves her switching somehow to a private channel to take calls from the dean, and from her mother, seems a trifle contrived.
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Given that the Obama administration also housed separated children in "cages," which merited the faintest of peeps from supplicant media, politicians and activists, this newfound outrage comes off as contrived partisanship.
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My original submission had a few themed answers Will and Joel felt were either contrived (OPHELIA'S COMPLEX SUITOR, anyone?) or hid characters with only four letters in 21-letter answers (e.g.
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Even Villanelle doesn't seem to be taking it too seriously — her approach to the kill is so comically efficient, so artfully contrived, that it rises to the level of self-parody.
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Maggie has contrived a humane, if shaky, solution for the prisoners of war by penning them in a makeshift prison area, but Gregory is out to undermine her authority yet again.
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A contrived, 11th hour hearing on block grants in the Homeland Security Committee — a committee with such limited jurisdiction over healthcare matters — does not even come close to suggesting regular order.
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The 'H-Bomb' Fizzles: The Harvard Brand Takes a Hit A formerly contrived embarrassment may be ceding to sincere shame and a reassessment of the merits of four years in Cambridge.
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Cartoon by Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby The unvarnished look of "Heaven Knows What," which makes most other films about homeless characters seem ludicrously contrived, can obscure the brothers' sophisticated approach.
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His efforts to save a stranger's failing marriage become increasingly contrived and farcical, ultimately propelling Pete into a hallucinatory, nighttime odyssey amid the coyotes, the cactuses and a sinister dancing teenager.
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It's almost as if, having tired of the many ways TV itself has contrived to break bad, the writers sought to show that going back to basics can be equally effective.
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The generational warfare in the face-off was fully contrived; Nakamura and Balor are almost as old as their opposites, while Reigns is heading toward his mid-30s at light speed.
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In a contrived photograph from 1935 meant to describe the costs of industrialization, Robert Disraeli fused the image of a human hand onto a meat grinder seemingly churning out toy cars.
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The case against J.V. Car Wash (and its sister locations) took some unusual turns, as the carwash owner, José Vázquez, contrived a series of bizarre claims to undermine the workers' lawsuit.
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Written by Christopher Chen and directed by Lee Sunday Evans, Caught reveals the too-close relationship between artifice, as in cunning craftiness, and the artificial, as in something fake and contrived.
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"We&aposll have lovely food and really good music, but there won&apost be two men in tuxedos on a cake, white doves or anything twee or contrived like that," Coyle said.
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Instead of contrived, over-the-top moments meant to attract photographers, this season fashion influencers are wearing styles that fit their natural texture, personal aesthetic, and outfit of the day (of course).
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He's picked up Top 40 lyrics, jumbled them around, and come up with contrived pop tracks that run from corn syrupy Imagine Dragons "whoahs" to superficial morning-after Jesus-in-Ibiza shite.
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But what's here is much more episodic than dramatic, and the few moments of action, like Sancho's struggle to produce his deed of property in order to cast his vote, feel contrived.
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A majority of the justices — Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. joined the court's more liberal wing — concluded that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had given a "contrived" reason for adding the question now.
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President Donald Trump pushed for the addition, despite the Supreme Court's ruling in June that temporarily blocked the question and said that administration officials had given a "contrived" rationale for including it.
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On one side, the Supreme Court found that the administration "contrived" the stated rationale for asking the citizenship question when it said the question would assist in enforcing the Voting Rights Act.
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The story of Byrd (1540-1623), an English Roman Catholic who contrived to remain part of the Protestant establishment he defied, illustrates the role such music played in political and theological struggles.
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Some skeptics view internet addiction as a false condition, contrived by teenagers who refuse to put away their smartphones, and the Reagans say they have had trouble explaining it to extended family.
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But after eight-odd episodes had washed over me, in an amber haze thick with hackneyed dialogue, contrived emotion, and Mandy Moore's perfectly colored hair — I have to say, I felt nothing.
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"I just find this all too convenient, all too contrived, and I just don't buy it," Priebus said of Nicholson's conversion to the GOP during a radio interview on Milwaukee's 2628 WISN.
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But this Lifetime series turned into much more — anyone can call "The Bachelor" contrived, but it takes a gutsy kind of cynicism to turn that same skepticism on romantic love in general.
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If the last of the tetralogy, "Regular Singing," felt slightly more contrived than the others, I was still sorry to say goodbye to a family who somehow turned casual conversation into catharsis.
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"Sludgie the Wale" (2007), an installation by Snow, invites visitors to the collection to walk through the imagined innards of a beached wale, a kind of contrived, post-apocalyptic amusement park attraction.
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A Kleenex stunt, in which the company surprised a gay couple getting married with a party and a giant wall of tissues that spelled out "Love Wins," felt more contrived than heartwarming.
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The level of animus feels as contrived as it is narratively useful, as is often the case in the bad-party movie, itself at times a subset of the confined-space flick.
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The frequent repetition can be tiresome, like a comedy sketch gone on too long, but there's no denying the delirious pleasure that comes from watching this cleverly contrived and nimbly executed farce.
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For many years this contest has provided teachers and students an opportunity to learn about the physics behind natural and contrived situations by creating visual and written illustrations of various physical concepts.
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The contradictory statements could hardly have been better contrived to alienate the United States and Arab countries around the Gulf, and Qatar immediately began to deny the report, early on May 24.
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But it has a similar seriousness of purpose and a ground-level common sense about family and organizational dynamics that American dramas — hyped-up and contrived even at their best — seldom achieve.
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The first few times you divert your behavior it will feel contrived and extremely challenging, but the more you practice replacing the self-sabotaging urge with a healthy practice, the easier it becomes.
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Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by the court's liberal wing, found that the reason the administration gave for adding the question — enforcing voting rights — was "contrived" and didn't line up with the evidence.
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" In another one of his DGAF tweets, he alluded to "Contrived 'diverse' female empowerment shows by stale white men, created for the sole purpose of making them money and giving them more power.
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On June 27, the Supreme Court ruled that the administration had provided contrived reasons to back the necessity of a citizenship question and gave them the opportunity to bring in a different rationale.
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"Die göttliche Ordnung" is all the more stirring for some fortuitous timing (though Ms Volpe's ending—Hans and Nora reuniting cosily, followed by a slightly contrived bedroom scene—feels rushed and rather trite).
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What set apart their creations from the more showily contrived French couture of the day, and what renders them fresh even now, was a deliberately unfussy cut and emphatically functional approach to design.
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As Justice Elena Kagan put it at the hearing on April 23rd—foreshadowing the ruling on June 27th—"you can't really read this record" and conclude that the rationale was anything but "contrived".
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Meanwhile, fed by a steady diet of focused state-owned media, the Russian people, already on a psychological war-footing, are regularly reminded of perceived and mostly contrived existential threats to their society.
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When asked about the problem of sky-high house prices in the 1383 campaign, Mr Netanyahu contrived to avoid an answer by steering the conversation to the threat that was posed by Iran.
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AFTER she contrived to lose the Tories' parliamentary majority last year in spite of a widely unfancied Labour opposition, Theresa May was described by one former cabinet colleague as "a dead woman walking".
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Democrats are going to find that out, again, in the midterms, as Americans vote for real policies that improve peoples lives, not for a return to identity politics, contrived divisions and perpetual outrage.
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So the question is not whether these games are enjoyable—baseball is awesome, as is deviation from the norm, even when contrived—but whether this is the optimal system for MLB's playoff structure.
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Some characters, like say, Jackie Hoffman's Mamacita, seem too good to be true (believe it or not, she is based on a real person!), and some moments too contrived to really be possible.
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I've always been 'scared' of musicals and had the realisation that this might be something to do the huge 'contrived' outpouring of emotion they both show on stage and elicit from the audience.
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The experiment is what NASA calls a "Human Exploration Research Analog," which is a contrived acronym that nets you HERA, the greek goddess of family, and basically means a simulated crewed spacecraft mission.
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Over the next few days, I came up with a list of progressively more contrived items to request, each one requiring a greater amount of effort on the dealers' part than the last.
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Rather than hearing a chorus of praise for Trump purportedly "changing" on the issues, we hear a chorus of contrived criticism as they empathize with "the poor Trump voter" who has been misled.
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Such contrived outings will sound more like a torment than an adventure to many, but then again, maybe they seem more fun when considered against the hellscape backdrop of a call center job.
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On one hand, he and his fellow practitioners of progressive gastronomy, who blur the lines between sweet and savory dishes, often find the idea of a separate pastry chef restrictive and even contrived.
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And unlike a typical case in which an agency may have both stated and unstated reasons for a decision, here the VRA enforcement rationale—the sole stated reason—seems to have been contrived.
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So many of Rodriguez's machinations with the Yankees were painfully contrived, especially the 10-year, $275 million deal that tethered him to the team past the point where the marriage was played out.
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So the network contrived to swell the Tuesday edition of The Voice to a two-hour extravaganza for the first few weeks of the season, thus pushing This Is Us to 10 pm.
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Background: The Trump administration has said it's reasonable to ask how many residents are U.S. citizens, though federal judges in three lawsuits have concluded that the rationale for adding the question was contrived.
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And while the implicit connections between Chris's father and Nazi Germany might feel overly contrived in a more traditional play, here they become natural echoes in a nightmare that enwraps the whole world.
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It has a lot in common with "The Goldbergs" or "Fresh Off the Boat," right down to the not-always-necessary narration, the clear sibling roles, the contrived but deeply revered suburban rituals.
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At every turn, Control is using the most contrived and obvious devices to drop loads of backstory and plot of development into a static gameworld that most closely resembles a single-player MMO.
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A case of excellent actors' straining to elevate a contrived screenplay, "Strange Weather," directed by Katherine Dieckmann (the atmospheric "Diggers"), casts Holly Hunter as Darcy, an academic administrator, at a university in Georgia.
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It stepped up "faketivist" actions that released stolen data through contrived online personalities like Guccifer 2 and websites like DCLeaks, according to Kyle Ehmke, a senior intelligence researcher at ThreatConnect, a cybersecurity company.
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This results in Emma and her very patient boyfriend having two houseguests who are both persons of interest to the government, a situation that serves a dramatic purpose but mostly just feels contrived.
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Not far removed from the intense routine and lifestyle of an Olympic athlete—or even 1970s rockstar—ballerinas and ballerinos alike are often contrived to leave the pirouettes and plies to younger talent.
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And only decades later did the soccer officials who long ignored the women's game, and allowed it to be banned in England, France and Germany, append a larger, contrived meaning to the game.
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Asuka is going through her own thing and then the purposes of this episode it's about her connection with Shinji through this contrived, you know, sync rate or Pacific Rim drift compatibility test.
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The method something like this: Observation, hypothesis, experimentation, theory, denial, tantrum, alternative theory unsupported by either observation or experimentation, contrived experiment or debate aimed at undermining what was previously established by experimentation, continued tantrum.
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The state of New York and Democrat-dominated challengers reject those grounds as contrived and point to Census Bureau analyses that predict such a question would diminish the response rate from noncitizens and Hispanics.
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This diffuse, elite roster of the dearly departed has caught the attention of artist Cynthia Talmadge, who successfully captures the inherent grimness of funeral chapels, combined with the contrived austerity that celebrity deaths demand.
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For Mr. Goler, the trip led "to the reversal of my previous notion that marriage was a contrived staple of human relations," and a realization that they could plan the ceremony how they chose.
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Despite some glaring omissions, the Black Panther soundtrack might be one of the least-contrived movie albums this decade, capable of working on its own removed from the deserved hype of its parent picture.
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Image: GettyIn a painfully contrived brands-are-your-friends marketing moment, Netflix tweeted at the E3 gaming expo on Monday, "asking" for a panel slot to discuss its forthcoming roster of tie-in games.
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The most contrived or intentional Vines nevertheless usually had something awkward about their pacing or focus or production, the natural result of being built linearly on the fly, the way being alive is built.
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The brothers were found to have breached sections of the tennis anti-corruption code that deals with soliciting a third-party to place a bet on matches in which they then contrived the outcome.
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Below that, arranged like the dots on the five face of a die, were the F-1 engines on which the success of the whole moon-project rested: exquisitely engineered, cunningly contrived, ludicrously powerful.
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For those who feel neofolk is often just a bit too unplugged (or for those who can't get enough sadness), The Sea I'm Diving In hits all the right notes without ever feeling contrived.
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All pro wrestling calls back to its past in order to establish the idea that the storyline never ends, but not all pro wrestlers sit easily with that (oftentimes contrived) weight or appreciate it.
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The victim, Anna Shannon Cardwell, remains estranged from her mother, even as erstwhile paterfamilias Mike "Sugar Bear" Thompson has returned to co-star with June in the beyond-contrived Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars.
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Never mind that one of the reasons so many individuals are dependent on fossil fuels is that fuel companies in the United States contrived to kill public transit and make American communities car-dependent.
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There is, of course, an egregious false equivalence between the two cases: One man is a pure victim, while the others were killers who contrived to die at the hands of French law enforcers.
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"There've been seven trillion dollars that these corporations have spent, which belongs to the shareholders, just buying back their stock in order to meet certain contrived pay performance for their executive suite," Nader said.
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It should be seen for what it is: the obvious result, in light of the Trump administration's seemingly "contrived" rationale, as the court put it, for adding a citizenship question to next year's census.
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Opponents said that the Justice Department's rationale for seeking to add a citizenship question to the census was baldly contrived, a conclusion shared by federal judges in all three lawsuits opposing the administration's action.
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It comes off as an artfully contrived tease, like the scene in the "Mission Impossible" movies in which someone goes on at length about the impenetrable security that makes a big heist so unlikely.
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He struggled to incorporate the episode into his fiction because, as he explained in "The Great Derangement," it is difficult for a writer to use a case of "extreme improbability" without it seeming contrived.
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But, some of the things the show is remembered for, because they seemed so loopy at the time — the log lady, the one-armed man, the damn good cup of coffee — feel contrived now.
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Oh, hang on a second… —James Vincent The demo video for Samsung's Ballie had all the hallmarks of a Kickstarter pitch: a contrived tale meant to sell a dream that technology doesn't support yet.
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At Mr. Orozco's 2009 MoMA retrospective, Jerry Saltz, the critic for New York magazine, dismissed his paintings as high-end screen savers — "contrived, unimaginative, banal, and risk-free," essentially calling Mr. Orozco a sellout.
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Because of their popularity and the critical acclaim, large producers of inexpensive wines sought to mimic them, using the same set of grapes — along with technology and other manipulations — to make dull, contrived imitations.
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Forced chuckling from the group soon melted into genuine amusement, an act that seemed to me both contrived and profound as my abs became sore and the corners of my mouth began to sting.
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Moments like Thanksgiving Day -- no matter how contrived or historically controversial -- give us ideal moments amid the usual bustle of life, ugly election cycle and the nation's new air of uncertainty, to pause and reflect.
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"The drug menace must stop... Yet the apparent serial summary executions of alleged street drug users or petty drug lords which appear sudden, too contrived and predictable must also stop," he said in a statement.
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While this all sounds as contrived as friends forcing each other to dance with their crushes in a school gym, that's also what makes the formula work so well for this show and many others.
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Like many of Trump's wins, there are questions about whether the immigration deal adds up to real progress or is a contrived solution conjured up to get him out of yet another self-created crisis.
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Nothing in it is designed to create an image (if you're cynical, maybe you'd say that's the exact image she's curating, but no one can do "regular" so very regularly if they're being truly contrived).
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New York, that the administration has considerable latitude to add a question asking people about citizenship status but that, in this particular situation, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, had contrived his explanation for taking the step.
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This means that for a civic project to truly benefit the urban environment, it should "encourage density, walkability, incremental development" rather than the sweeping overhauls that Atlanta has contrived for itself like L.A. before it.
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Writer-director Sabu brings the helmet into the story in a such a quick, out-of-context, and contrived way, it's as if it was dropped into the film from a bad science fiction novel.
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Things like the pod-racing sequence or Newt's Niffler chase just don't affect anything in the larger world or serve a purpose beyond being an immediate solution to a problem contrived a few scenes earlier.
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On the other hand, it pretty regularly hit a good stride, especially in jazz and classical improvisations, where a bit of an off note can be played off and the rhythms don't feel so contrived.
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This blatant effort to thwart a federal investigation, would generate yet more political heat than a contrived "for cause" dismissal and would prompt lawsuits alleging violation of the protracted notice requirement for abolishing federal regulations.
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For all the show's self-awareness, it feels warm, organic, and spontaneous, not cold or contrived—a nice change of pace, in an era of TV comedy defined by bleak dramedies and avant-garde experiments.
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Small touches such as playful sculptures of a cat and a dog-headed figure in the lotus position, along with books by Hemingway, Carl Hiaasen and Jimmy Buffett, displayed just so, felt a hair contrived.
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Along with the fealty to California noir come a convincing realism and an avoidance of contrived, sensational story lines (though Bosch's teenage daughter and ex-wife do find themselves in jeopardy in the new season).
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In retrospect, the media-fueled controversy surrounding "Cop Killer"'s provocative title and self-explanatory contents seems downright contrived, the song's revenge fantasy lyrics ultimately a sharp commentary on the LAPD's record of police brutality.
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The filmmakers seem less concerned with telling a story than in convincing the audience (and maybe themselves) that they can handle this provocative and potentially exploitive material they've contrived with what's conventionally considered "appropriate" sensitivity.
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Hackers briefly took control of the website of Qatar's official news agency last summer, and posted a false account of a speech by the emir that appeared contrived to irk the Arab states and Washington.
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Matt Gerardi argues that this effect can be attributed to particular qualities of gaming as a form, while recognizing that certain attempts to translate psychiatry into interactive narrative result in something that might seem contrived.
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The Supreme Court found that administration officials had given a "contrived" rationale for including the query in the decennial population survey, but the court left open the possibility the administration could offer a plausible rationale.
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The later sections of the play feel contrived in a way that nothing that comes before does; he is determined to let a concept — the allusion to hope in that poem's title — rule the action.
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Mitchell ended his book offering the hope that commitment, under the right circumstances, could yield romance and passion — not through contrived "novelty" but through an embrace of the risks inherent in building a shared life.
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In 2012, an absurd story involving an anthropomorphic pineapple in a contrived remake of "The Tortoise and the Hare" graced the desks of middle schoolers across several states, with senseless questions that stumped even teachers.
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This has the makings of another wasted story line: To see Tilly develop because she has an alien that possesses her rather than seeing her succeed on her own, again, seems like contrived character development.
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Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott are on the cover of the newest issue of GQ.Their cover is newsworthy for a number of reasons — but some people are concerned that the couple's photo shoot was contrived.
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A 'zine accompanying the show is its Rosetta Stone: reproducing what look to be sketchbook pages, it clarifies Tacha's penchant for tinkering with photos of the clothed human form in motion (and in contrived poses).
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Wie, who had her neck massaged on course, contrived a makeshift ice pack after fishing ice cubes out of a tee-side cooler, and trailed her caddie keeping a hand on her golf bag for balance.
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A for-profit facility that could meet my brother's needs, and that is a mile from where he grew up and close to family and friends, would not accept him based on vague and contrived reasons.
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International Triathlon Union (ITU) officials deemed the British pair were in breach of rules that state athletes must not "finish in a contrived tie situation where no effort to separate the finish times has been made".
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From the contrived party games and the aggressive come-ons, to Kendall Jenner's prank phone call to a stressed out, breast-feeding Kim, there was no lack of garishness in the near 45-minute debut episode.
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Does "tasteful" entail a cultivated aesthetic, one arrived at through formidable powers of judgment and discernment, or a contrived affectation that degenerates into an automaton-like weakness for bamboo cheese boards and artisanal-coffee-shop playlists?
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With the exception of Día de los Muertos, he mandates that groups be small and everyone know each other beforehand, which makes excursions feel more like the best vacation day ever rather than a contrived itinerary.
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Movies about teenagers are often filled with contrived excesses, but Mr. Burnham understands that some of the most pronounced extremes — the drama, the comedy, the horror — take place in that lonely room known as our heads.
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In other words, the Knicks are finally free to delve deep into their rebuilding process, though one not too contrived, like that of the Philadelphia 276ers, who happen to be Thursday night's opponent at the Garden.
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These come into play in a contrived, borderline cutesy setup that — once the parts have been snapped into place — relaxes into a pleasurable, meandering portrait of someone getting another shot, maybe the last one, at happiness.
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This was a new conservative politics that celebrated the "American regime," with the Founders cast as ancients betrayed by successive generations of liberals and progressives as they contrived to eat away at the nation's moral core.
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Witnesses also might produce more details about a situation that might not be accurate because they feel pressure to satisfy a need for information, and those contrived details can eventually feel like a memory, she said.
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A majority of the justices concluded that a citizenship question wasn't unconstitutional on its face, but that the Trump administration had given a "contrived" reason for doing it this time, which ran afoul of federal law.
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A legal challenge to the attempt made it all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled that Ross had made up a "contrived" reason to add the question and that it therefore couldn't be included.
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In the recent Census case, Roberts did not dispute the administration's authority to change the Census forms, but concluded that the official explanation the administration gave for the additional question was "contrived" — in essence, a sham.
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Yet Mr. Bomer and Mr. Wiggins are proficient with the sparse dialogue (written by the brothers and directors Alex and Andrew Smith, from a short story by David Quammen), and with situations that are occasionally contrived.
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The Presidential Medal of Freedom, while certainly a wonderful honor for those who are chosen, also has seemed like a contrived way for the president of United States to meet other famous people who he likes.
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Within the works themselves, one detects a thread of critique and resistance, at least — many of the artists seem aware of the contrived nature of the show and cast subtle or overt shade in its direction.
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The nation's top court, in a decision handed down on Thursday, said the federal government's rationale for the question "seems to have been contrived" and stated the government had not given a reasoned explanation for its actions.
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Most talk show interviews, if you didn't know already, feature a casual-yet-contrived chat with a celebrity who just so happens to be promoting their latest film or television show or album or run for president.
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My only complaint about this deliciously contrived situation is that Liz's history with Nick distracts us from the fact that she is a doula, a perfect reality show Mad Libs occupation I'd love to hear more about.
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Michelangelo's sketch sacrifices detail for movement; where Bastiano depicted a hash of figures in contrived poses, Michelangelo has drawn the headlong rush of soldiers scrambling up an Arno riverbank as if it were a billow of smoke.
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The best example is the origin story Hatshepsut contrived for herself: It brushed aside her inconvenient past as Thutmose II's queen and solidified her legitimacy by placing her as the daughter of the god Amun-Ra himself.
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He sought to effectively nullify entire regulatory agencies and contrived to keep conservatives in control of the second most powerful court in the country, by shattering the norms that once governed the Senate's advice and consent power.
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It will be hard to convince justices that a new explanation is not also contrived, and an executive order would not override the Supreme Court decision or undo other court orders blocking the citizenship question, they said.
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The Ghost Adventures formatting also has the effect of making Matt and Shelby's tragedies feel acutely tacky and contrived, but as usual with AHS, it's not clear and probably won't become clear whether this is the point.
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As a child, I played with doll houses that were orange crates furnished with chairs and tables and beds contrived out of this and that piece of wood or metal or cloth scavenged from around the house.
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Critics rating: 19%"Spy Kids" director Robert Rodriguez made another action film for children, but the decision to film the movie in 3-D took away from the experience and earned poor reviews for its contrived world.
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On June 27, the Supreme Court upheld the Manhattan decision, saying the administration's Voting Rights Act rationale seemed "contrived." here The ruling by Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative, was joined by the court's four liberal justices.
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CreditCreditElizabeth Weinberg for The New York Times LOS ANGELES — An invitation to visit Pink in Venice, a few blocks from the beach, for a home-cooked Monday night dinner could seem like a contrived play for authenticity.
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Here's one simple guide to doing so: I could dig deeper about other "priorities" for the GOP prior to 2018, but realistically, getting a real budget — not a contrived continuing resolution — passed seems to be a stretch.
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That's more than can be said for the ceaselessly arch, contrived back-and-forth that makes up the trying 90 minutes of "Switzerland," the two-hander from Joanna Murray-Smith at the Ambassadors Theater through Jan. 5.
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Or the contrived furor over former National Security Adviser Susan Rice's "unmasking" of Trump team officials, who, it turned out, were trying to set up a dubious back channel to Russia without notifying the outgoing Obama administration.
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Edith Freni's "Female Beginner" and Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder's "Santa Doesn't Come to the Holiday Inn," on the other hand, plop hastily sketched characters in the middle of drama — contrived in the first case, wan in the second.
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After the Supreme Court delayed the administration's effort to add the citizenship question, ruling that its rationale was "contrived," Mr. Ross and Justice Department lawyers declared the issue all but dead last week in the near term.
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Under the government's theory, they wrote, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross could be prosecuted for giving what the Supreme Court found in June was a contrived reason for trying to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
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The Lovers installs a middle-aged couple who've been married for a couple of decades in a contrived but believable premise, winds it up, and then lets us watch how the comedy and tragedy will all play out.
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The 22-year-old actress says that she's not one to put herself out there romantically, revealing that she isn't especially keen on going out on dates – and all the contrived bells and whistles that come with it.
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Yeah, the premise was a little unlikely, and the series of events that led to Kevin being left behind a little too contrived — but the point is, it was convincing enough to suspend our disbelief for two hours.
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The fake-found-footage, creepy monster film will be on Netflix, if you're looking to spend the evening watching contrived horror of a monster destroying New York instead of thinking about the real-life problems with our nation.
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"Barefoot in the Park" is tenser, thanks to Rosalia's fraught, fragile singing, but while the electrobeat complements her, it sounds stiff, too contrived in its just-right blend of keyboard gloss and sampled, inarticulate, breathy human-adjacent moan.
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America's putative SHARK class (an acronym contrived from "submarine, hold at risk") is the furthest advanced in this area, says Andrew Krepinevich, a former adviser to three American defence secretaries—but China and Japan are not far behind.
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Emails revealed that a few months prior, Christie administration officials had intentionally created a massive traffic jam in the town of Fort Lee by closing down two key access lanes to a major bridge for a contrived reason.
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There was a short period in which an equally contrived ending was tried: playing on until one side or the other scored a "golden goal" but that was abandoned as too unfair a way to end a stalemate.
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"I strongly hope that the other six signatories will prove to the world what responsible behavior is, and adhere to this agreement — no matter what false accusations and contrived provocations are put forward by President Trump," Kerry said.
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Above all, Erdogan has contrived to turn Turkey — the poster child of moderate democratic Islam not so many years ago — into a divided and combustible country where the Erdogan personality cult grows daily at the expense of freedom.
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Pierce lived to torment the Bockers, the NBA's most persistently pathetic high valuation franchise, seeming to feed off the contrived mythic energy of Madison Square Garden, no matter how good or bad the Knicks were at the time.
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Instead, he is further emboldened by a fawning visit from the envoy of the most powerful nation on earth, who virtually kneels in subjugation to him for the sake of arm sales, oil and contrived conflict with Iran.
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Both "My Struggle" and "Suits" are serial entertainments, with the difference that the TV show is a turbid middlebrow melodrama that places all of its aesthetic chips on plot — patently contrived story lines engineered to generate further incident.
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But Michael Stokes Paulsen, a professor of law at the University of St. Thomas, disagrees, claiming the distinction is contrived: "Perjury and obstruction of justice are serious felonies (even if somehow cast as 'private-capacity' wrongs)," he writes.
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Evansky was in the forefront of the Mayfair style, which emphasized "freedom and movement, rather than contrived waves and curls," Kim Smith of the University of East London wrote in her doctoral dissertation on West London hair salons.
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The film might have been an attempt to create a good old-fashioned love triangle, but the events leading up to it feel unnecessarily contrived, and the plot (by Nitesh Tiwari and Shreyas Jain) wafer-thin and stretched.
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Watch VICE Meets Norwegian literary sensation Karl Ove Knausgaard: One of the things, it seems to me, that makes your book function so well is that the juxtaposition between the two conditions of displacement never feels too contrived.
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"In declining to hear these cases, the Supreme Court saw through the administration's contrived efforts to gin up a national crisis," said Jennifer L. Levi, the director of the Transgender Rights Project of GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders.
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Appearing decorative and somewhat contrived, elaborate digital images that fill each face become cacophonous and fail to resonate with the same impact as the standing figures and sparingly used digital pictures in the Matters of Heart (Figure) series.
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Despite this new, empowering marketing scheme, The Bachelorette is the thing that owns Hannah's narrative and the franchise has already put her on display when it set up a contrived fight situation between her and Caelynn on The Bachelor.
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The goal, with Google's quantum supremacy experiment, was to perform a contrived calculation involving 19903 qubits that computer scientists could be as confident as possible really would take something like 21990 quadrillion steps to simulate with a conventional computer.
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Through a mixture of Chapter 11 bankruptcy and mergers, the United States has contrived to produce an aviation sector with minimal competition, in which the four biggest carriers control 80% of the market, up from 48% a decade ago.
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While one can only speculate as to whether or not these poor reviews for "Watchmen" are sincere opinion or contrived effort, Chad MacDonald felt that it had nothing to do with a lack of faithfulness to the source material.
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Things that are ultra-contrived, where the spelling is tortured or it has that nineties dot-com [sound], where I just put this random word together with this random word, like "BlueRocket" or something, those don't get very far.
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Turning inward was hard to do when I was young and it seems even harder now, with the vastly entertaining deluge of images that come our way through social media, each picture a deftly contrived piece of eye candy.
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Though it has problems — as the noose around the characters tightens, some of the action seems awfully contrived — "Dangerous House" is passionately engaged in the struggle to understand the responsibility we bear for terrible things going on around us.
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From its contrived structure to its forced speechifying, this story about a yearslong correspondence between Donovan (Kit Harington), a closeted actor, and Rupert (Jacob Tremblay), a troubled prepubescent boy, never acquires the emotional potency or coherence its themes demand.
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When Orville refuses on principle, he finds that not only has Sundial contrived to prevent him from making his nightly call-in, they have replaced him with a voice actor, and no one, not even Bernard, is the wiser.
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For casual doubters who would remain politically committed to contrived bifurcations of U.S. law and international law — bifurcations expressly built into Trump's backward-looking vision of "American First" — they can begin by examining Article 6 of the US Constitution.
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They, too, can hurl contrived accusations in an attempt to create a measure of doubt: The whistleblower needs to testify; after all, it's somehow crucial that he confirm what's already been confirmed by the transcript of the "perfect" conversation.
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To write critically or poetically about a mesmerizingly disgusting internet trend seems absurd, but maybe Puppies Puppies appears to have made this piece specifically for this reason: to make art criticism and art history look just a little contrived.
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Majority Leader Mitch McConnell came up with the contrived justification that a president in his final year shouldn't be permitted to fill a Supreme Court seat, something it's impossible to believe he would argue if the president were a Republican.
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With a long record of climate change denial, including calling the science behind global warming a "phony contrived mess," it seems likely that Perry will support the slashing of funds for renewables and a switch back to fossil fuels and nuclear.
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Withdrawing from Thursday's debate demonstrates—in an antic, contrived way that perfectly aligns his Apprentice-era stagecraft, his real-estate-king persona, and the GOP's parody-defying depiction of Obama's presidency—that he's willing to walk away from a bad deal.
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If Trump prevails once again, perhaps the conservative establishment will set aside its contrived obsession with whose second- or third-place finish was the most inspiring, and accept that peering past the behemoth in front of them won't make him disappear.
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Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by the court's more liberal wing, wrote in the majority decision that the administration's stated reason was "contrived" — language that lawyers in the Maryland cases quoted in Thursday's court filings in arguing for higher rates.
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While there is nothing in the constitution or federal law stopping the government from asking census-takers if they are citizens, he wrote, Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary, violated administrative law when he gave a "contrived" reason for the change.
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Though it's worth conceding that every prickly point herein has a diametric counter-example, these visual motifs form a foundational approach to fonts that rock, a hardcore semiotics of a subculture that goes beyond what some might consider juvenile, contrived chaos.
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The hectic, calculated busyness of "Mary Poppins Returns," by contrast, wears you out almost immediately, in part because every throwaway gag and narrative digression has been so vainly contrived to pay off in a flurry of climactic would-be surprises.
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For the artists in this exhibition, having survived transformative cycles of their practice, this moment, as contrived as it may seem, is an opportunity to argue for the power of art-making to manifest the past and to construct the future.
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It's a carefully contrived attempt at a Joe Frazier or a Roberto Duran who battled his way out of poverty and up from the streets, the problem is that those fighters didn't get the hand holding and special treatment of Slice.
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"I think they have their own take on a very similar style – modern, easy, effortless, it's not very contrived and it's very easy to relate to," explains Ducas, who opened her first overseas concession at Saks Fifth Avenue in 2014.
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At times, most often when Mr. Bennett is onscreen, "Love & Friendship" is howlingly funny, and as a whole it feels less like a romance than like a caper, an unabashedly contrived and effortlessly inventive heist movie with a pretty good payoff.
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The tournament format invites contrived draws because, in its new bloated concept, 16 of 93 nations advance to the next stage — and with four points from their opening two games, Germany and Poland are practically assured of reaching the knockout rounds.
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Hawaii earlier this year indicated that Chief Justice John Roberts and the other conservative justices are willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt on controversial immigration policies, no matter how contrived, slapdash, or bigoted their origins may be.
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The DOJ had initially claimed the question is needed to enforce the Voting Rights Act, but the argument was shot down by the Supreme Court, which called it "contrived" and invited the administration to come up with a new rationale.
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The phrase refers to lynching ("strange fruit hanging in poplar trees"), one of the bloodiest aspects of the Jim Crow era, a murderous act that is connected to nearly 3,500 recorded deaths of black people for believed and contrived offenses.
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What could have been a buddy cop style exploration of how the greatest mateship in pop culture came to be is instead a contrived series of mishaps where Chewie becomes another of Han's accessories, to be labeled, boxed, and shelved.
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Moments like that, in which semi-surreal details are happened upon rather than contrived, demonstrate Van Sant at his most easeful, and the languor is sustained by Jonah Hill, as Donnie, a rich and sickly soul who becomes John's A.A. sponsor.
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What began as a bare-bones series about several strangers "picked to live in a house" in a major American city became more contrived as the show aged and reality TV became its own genre, with familiar tics and beats.
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You may love a program or find it contrived, Mr. Greilsammer said, but these intrepid players are showing what classical musicians are capable of — and inventing ways to make the great works of the past "alive today," as he put it.
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Yet after several incidents that have besmirched the university's reputation, and in an era of heightened self-consciousness over privilege, that formerly contrived embarrassment may be ceding to sincere shame and a reassessment of the merits of a Harvard education.
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Early in President Trump's tenure, Chief Justice Roberts was willing to go along with the president by upholding his travel and refugee ban, but last term, Roberts stood up to the contrived legal arguments in the census citizenship question case.
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In a culture in which seemingly everything is contrived for the camera, it is heartening, and horrifying, to see what it looks like when it doesn't think it is being photographed, or at least photographed the way Jeff Mermelstein does it.
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It reduces a team sport to a contrived tiebreaker that obliges physically tired and emotionally drained players to step up one by one, trudge half the length of the field and try to shoot down the opponent's goalkeeper from 12 yards.
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Trump lies more and more loudly than Clinton, but both have been guilty of hiding important details from voters—for Trump it's his tax returns, for Clinton, those deleted emails—and both are dogged by real and media-contrived scandals.
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The way I see it, people trust artists with some of the rawest, unformed emotions they experience, and when you go through something and lean on music, it helps to know that you're not leaning on someone who is fake or contrived.
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"I think the way it was all put together was not to have any deliberate contrived idea [or concept]; if the way it reaches you is that there's a theme, then I think that's quite nice," explains drummer and founding member David Gray.
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A week earlier, the Supreme Court ruled that the administration couldn't include the question based on the current record, finding that Ross's official reason for adding it — to support voting rights efforts by the Justice Department — was "contrived" and didn't match the evidence.
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But the characters in this movie already have larger-than-life public images: The Kennedy brothers, with their distinctive Boston accents and handsome looks, contrast sharply with Johnson's old-boy Texas drone, but they feel contrived in practice, as does Lady Bird's look.
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All the criticism reminds me of something both John and Logan said during our conversations—John when I asked about how contrived some of his posts were, and Logan when I prodded him on the logic behind those sexy dog costume shots.
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He was stellar in Chaplin, in which he somehow managed to play the legendary comedian at every stage of his life in a way that didn't feel goofy or contrived—a performance so good it earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
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C.J. Johnson, Edwin McCain's "I'll Be" Much of this treacherously overdone Idol anthem was out of tune, and I hated all of the contrived moves: blowing a kiss, wavering in the middle of a word for no reason, GRABBING A RANDOM HAND (shudder).
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After watching countless hours of live video in the past few weeks, I have hit upon many that are either plagued by technical malfunctions, feel contrived, drone on too long, ignore audience questions or are simply boring, by I imagine most anyone's standards.
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The details of this are sketchy — apparently, people who can anonymously fill your bank account can also drain it — but the larger problem is a screenplay that amounts to little more than a string of flashy stunts before fizzling to a contrived close.
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An unfortunately contrived Holocaust drama that labors under the delusion that the subject matter lends itself to uplift, "The Last Suit" concerns Abraham Bursztein (Miguel Ángel Solá), a Jew who was born in Poland but has lived in Argentina since the war.
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Instead, "Love Actually" is a patchwork of contrived naughtiness and forced pathos, ending as it began, with hugging and kissing at the airport (where returning passengers are perhaps expressing their relief at being delivered from an in-flight movie like this one).
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These intense physical displays have long served as his most persuasive markers of authenticity; his toothy smile and persona may be contrived, but the motorcycle he races on helmetless and the wind that pummels him during a free-fall are anxiously real.
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But in the panel discussion at the Newseum, blocks from the White House and the Capitol, Mr. Lawrence described how concerned he was three years ago that the tension between the United States and Russia in the movie felt contrived and outdated.
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With crystalline sensitivity, Adams makes you care deeply about Ashley, whose virtue carries great narrative weight; even for those who didn't respond to "Junebug" and its contrived hokum, the performance was a reminder of how a single actor can nearly redeem a movie.
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Drawing on not only the games themselves but also social media, off-court news, advertising and even politics, the league combines the melodrama of soap operas, the intimate access (whether real or contrived) of reality television and the personalized whimsy of fan fiction.
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As a businessperson who doesn't have much time for reading because you have to go back to your businessing, you are probably wondering: Are there any contrived metaphors I can remember as a takeaway for how I can utilize humor in the workplace?
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The premise of the mastermind who contrived a treasure hunt sometimes strains credulity, but Johnson writes about the long shadows of the past with such ambition that any reader with a taste for mystery will appreciate the puzzle Candice and Brandon must solve.
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These undisputed facts create what lawyers call a strong inference that Trump's motive in seeking these Ukrainian investigations was corrupt — to damage his political opponent with a contrived cloud of suspicion and to call into doubt whether Russia aided Trump's election in 85033.
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Robert Farmer, a prodigious fund-raiser who contrived a formula to circumvent federal campaign spending limits with so-called soft money, and who was credited with raising $800 million for four presidential candidates and the Democratic Party, died on July 603 in Miami.
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Google has declined to comment on the paper, which was clearly not meant for public release, but the gist is that Google says its quantum computer performed in 200 seconds a contrived problem that a classical computer would take 10,000 years to perform.
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By every objective measure, the impeachment inquiry has been chaotic and disastrous, putting House Democrats and their party presidential hopefuls in a much worse position than before the fateful decision to jump in with both feet based on a contrived narrative about Ukraine.
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Some experts even advocated a return to robust covert action, a favorite tool of U.S. presidents fighting the Cold War, by marrying Madison Avenue-style persuasion with active measures contrived to beat — or at least compete with — jihadi internet recruitment efforts and propaganda.
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For spin pros and avid bike commuters, a vibrating bike seat may seem contrived or impractical, but CamSoda Vice President Daryn Parker told Insider that the company has received hundreds of orders since the beta version became available to customers in December.
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It did so by devising a series of ads that put unsuspecting women in various contrived situations — choosing to walk into a building through doors labeled "beautiful" or "average," for example, or being spontaneously required to describe their faces to a sketch artist.
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Leading up to the Dallas Cowboys' Sunday night matchup with the rolling Tampa Bay Buccaneers, some moderately contrived media speculation centered around the recent struggles of rookie quarterback Dak Prescott and the possibility that Tony Romo might resume his role as starting signal-caller.
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If the Obama image offered a moment of insight into the humanity of those in the room, perhaps suggesting we have unwittingly walked upon this scene, it's clear the Trump image is more carefully contrived, offering little humanity and preferring the perspective of power.
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Although IBM has questioned Google's results, many researchers say they appear to represent a scientific milestone termed quantum supremacy: When a quantum computer gives the first taste of the technology's potential by doing something beyond any conventional computer, even if on a contrived problem.
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Admittedly, I rolled my eyes (during a sex scene between Priest and his two lovers), felt old (especially when looking at all of the face tattoos that have become popular among younger generations), and found some parts of the film to be extremely contrived.
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In the decades following the second world war, the British political landscape was one of "Butskellism"—a term this newspaper contrived from the names R.A. Butler, a moderate Conservative, and Hugh Gaitskell, a moderate Labourite, two supposedly opposed chancellors who had much in common.
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A majority of the justices, in a June 27 opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., concluded that the reason Ross had given for adding the question — to aid the Justice Department in enforcing voting rights — was "contrived" and didn't match the evidence.
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Tragedies, whether Greek or Shakespearian, are often updated, and Stone sets his Medea in the 21st century, without making it feel forced or contrived: this time, Medea is named Anna and she works in medical research, as does her soon-to-be-former husband.
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TBH, there was a lot about The Hills that did seem fake — anyone who's ever been an intern anywhere knows that Teen Vogue would have never just sent Lauren and Whitney to Paris, and the drama between a lot of the cast was contrived.
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Eric Holder While Democrats have howled for decades that contrived, oddly drawn voting districts minimize their wins in elections, and that voter ID laws suppress votes among typically Democratic blocs, the Trump era has ushered in a growing sense of a crisis among progressives.
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He laid out four fairly common bearish arguments these days, but concluded that they are "increasingly contrived": "This leads us to believe that the market is discounting very little in the way of policy changes, making stocks less vulnerable if they don't occur," he said.
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"The specific questions that Lisa Page answered that Peter Strzok did not heightened my concern that the processes at the FBI were contrived to fit the desired outcomes of people who were biased in favor of Hillary Clinton and against Donald Trump," Gaetz said.
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For decades, any new prime minister has been expected to take part in a somewhat contrived set-piece of waving to the massed ranks of the media on crossing the threshold of No.10 for the first time - with a spouse, and perhaps their children.
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To cut this dynamic short, Republicans have contrived the conceit that the choice facing their party isn't between fixing Obamacare and replacing it, but between replacing Obamacare and allowing single payer—universal, government-run insurance—to become the nation's health care model by default. .
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Yet the visit did seem a little contrived, featuring a facility that looked like a brightly decorated schoolroom that was far more welcoming than cages holding some kids in groups or the ordeal of more than 200 other children who were bused to New York.
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"Only by discrediting Jane Doe's account of what happened, including her medical records about the rape, could Kalanick, Alexander and Michael have contrived such an irrational and fictitious story about a rival ride-sharing company being involved in her rape account," the lawsuit says.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday handed President Donald Trump a stinging defeat, blocking his contentious citizenship question planned for the 2020 census because officials gave a "contrived" rationale and prompting Trump to suggest an extraordinary delay in the constitutionally mandated population count.
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In the interim, Costa will have contrived to get a couple of Arsenal players sent off, and hundreds of fortysomething dads in the crowd will be red in the face from calling him names which, on a point of professionalism, we shall not invoke here.
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Kirkpatrick ignores or skips quickly through key grievances of the anti-Morsi movement, both the contrived (the Islamists blackmailed the army into rigging elections for them) and the genuine (Islamists were complicit in killings near the protest camps and in post-coup violence against Christians).
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I thought the scenes of Arya witnessing the horror of Dany's attack from the point of view of the average King's Landing citizen were quite contrived, but they were also very effective in giving her a brand new name atop her recently abandoned kill list.
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And in reaction to what was perhaps the most effective manufactured outrage of all, Disney fired James Gunn from Guardians of the Galaxy 22016 after a harassment campaign straight out of the Gamergate playbook, stripping past tweets of their context to generate contrived backlash.
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"Only by discrediting Jane Doe's account of what happened, including her medical records about the rape, could Kalanick, Alexander and Michael have contrived such an irrational and fictitious story about a rival ride-sharing company being involved in her rape account," the lawsuit said.
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There are considerable flaws in "American War" — from badly melodramatic dialogue to highly contrived and derivative plot points — but El Akkad has so deftly imagined the world his characters inhabit, and writes with such propulsive verve, that the reader can easily overlook such lapses.
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There are quite a few three- and four-letter words, which made the solve feel a bit cramped in places, and some gluey bits like REICE, OME, ODS and ADAS (I know, it's a perfectly cromulent plural abbreviation, but it still seems contrived to me).
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It seems like he's trying to show he's authentic by continuing to work out at a neighborhood gym, but ultimately the decision seems a little contrived — not to mention it's not particularly environmentally friendly or considerate of anyone else who might be commuting along the same path.
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Gaga is often dinged for this, usually by pop-agnostic — or pop-hating — listeners who interpret her music as contrived and creatively bankrupt because it dares to directly reference the work of pop, rock, and R&B musicians who have attained bulletproof status in the cultural imagination.
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Not only did the show make her the person most singularly responsible for Rick's sacrifice at the bridge in a contrived way, but they also wrote her out of the show offscreen, using the time-skip to conveniently gloss over the events leading to Maggie's departure.
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Maybe Jaime didn't deserve a better end, but it's contrived nihilism to say that his attempt at goodness, his painful failure, his defining act of heroism, his entire life's worth of experiences — they won't all just be forgotten to history, but apparently forgotten by Jaime Lannister himself.
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While these acted interviews could have come across as contrived, the sheer intimacy of the testimonies, taken from personal accounts or correspondence, means they truly add to the portrait of Bell, not least by placing her well within the alpha-male environment in which she thrived.
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In "Chapter Eighty," his famous collaborator River Fields (played by Brooke Shields, get it?) dismisses telenovela twists like secret twins and amnesia as contrived — and then accidentally eats a pot brownie, watches a telenovela with Xiomara, and loves it so much that she immediately eats her words.
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There's always the chance that this is the last quiet moment before an unnecessary (but probably interesting) battle between the existing Avengers and Captain Marvel, who might think they killed Fury and stole his wonky space-pager, or something equally contrived for the sake of action.
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This method found some early success in simple contrived environments: in 'SHRDLU', a virtual world created by the computer scientist Terry Winograd at MIT between 1968-1970, users could talk to the computer in order to move around simple block shapes such as cones and balls.
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"I have to say that it is incredibly difficult to come up with new rationale that has any credibility after finding that the exclusive rationale used over the last more than a year is, to use the words of Chief Justice Roberts, contrived and pretextual," Rulli said.
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Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the court's 85033-4 decision last month that the administration's rationale for adding the question — enforcing the Voting Rights Act — was "contrived," and the justices stopped the question from appearing on the decennial survey unless a more valid reason was provided.
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What might have seemed contrived and stagy — the hippie ballads; the vintage sound system; the harmonious, though drafty, old structure — was instead organic to Mr. Nakamura's way of seeing, and consistent with the concept of wabi-sabi, the Zen-based aesthetic philosophy that finds beauty in imperfection.
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"Turner's pictures always look as if painted by a man who was born without hands, and having contrived to tie a brush to the hook at the end of his wooden stump, he managed by smudging, bungling, scrawling, twisting and splashing," one critic wrote in his diary.
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" That "her," of course, is Bathsheba, upon whom David spied while she bathed and then contrived to marry by murdering her husband; the result of this wickedness was the future King Solomon, "the next in the line of succession," McCabe notes dryly, "toward Christ our savior.
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Looking back, Cathro highlights his third game in charge as the crucial one: Hearts led by 2-0 at halftime, and he felt "the whole thing was alive, we were confident, tall, this is going to be good," but somehow his team contrived to lose, 3-2.
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It seems like he's trying to show he's authentic by continuing to work out at a neighborhood gym, but ultimately the decision seems a little contrived — not to mention it's not particularly environmentally friendly or considerate of anyone else who might be commuting along the same paths.
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If his life story can be shown to be contrived, the deeper message, however compelling, can be pre-emptively dismissed: Not only is the messenger's life not a genuine Muslim life, when seen from this angle, it may even prove to be an anti-Muslim life.
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That loss — mentioned only obliquely and without specifics — informs Tom and Joan's unusually close bond, as well as offering the opportunity for a slightly contrived scene in which Tom delivers a monologue at his dead daughter's gravesite, while his wife is having tests at the hospital.
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After battling for weeks over funding for a border wall, overseeing the longest government shutdown in US history, and finally signing on to a deal to fund the government, President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency over a contrived crisis at the US-Mexico border.
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Essentially everything about the film's premise — from the reason the group is playing a white supremacist bar in a small town to the way its neo-Nazi ownership traps them in the green room after the band members see something they shouldn't have — feels just a little bit contrived.
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There's nothing all that contrived about how this Golden State team came about—all narratives aside, hiring the best available player isn't any more absurd, really, than plucking him from greater Washington, D.C. via the University of Texas and expecting total devotion to Oklahoma City for a decade.
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LBJ's problems are mostly in the filmmaking: The flashback structure doesn't work at all — it feels contrived and cuts the tension of the Kennedy assassination — and in some scenes where Johnson is still acting from a position of cynical dealmaking, the score swells heroically, which feels completely off.
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Instead, posits Bershidsky, he releases them for the benefit of the Western press as some kind of double bluff, as we lap up this contrived machismo while he goes about his business quietly behind the scenes, massaging the corridors of power to strengthen his own bearhug on the Kremlin.
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" The motion stated that she's experienced "all manner of intrusive surveillance" since her release from prison in 2017, including "surveillance vans parked outside her apartment, federal agents following her, and strangers attempting to goad her into an absurdly contrived conversation about selling dual-use technologies to foreign actors.
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For decades, the new prime minister has been expected to take part in the somewhat contrived set-piece of giving a cheery wave to the massed ranks of the media on crossing the threshold of No.10 for the first time - with a spouse, and perhaps their children.
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Compared with what we've seen Spider-Man do in various previous outings, there is a contrived, even mechanical aspect to the storms [redacted] whips up to wreak havoc, which in the process renders him one of the least persuasive and intriguing bad boys in the annals of cinematic Marvel.
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On Younger Now, Cyrus attempts to take things back to her Nashville roots and go full on country pop, a genre that allows her to glow in ways no other does—and a path that would seem less contrived if she hadn't strayed from it to begin with.
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But the Supreme Court's census ruling isn't just about a fair count of the country's population, or even whether Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross "contrived," to use the court's word, a pretextual explanation for the Trump administration's decision to add a question about citizenship to the standard census form.
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I'm talking about the obvious effect of two factors on voting: the steady drumbeat of Russia-contrived leaks about Democrats, and only Democrats, and the dramatic, totally unjustified last-minute intervention by the F.B.I., which appears to have become a highly partisan institution, with distinct alt-right sympathies.
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Wright said he considered "First Things" primarily as a show with spirited discussion, but not contrived debate, and said it would tackle social issues that intersect with sports, like the six-game suspension of Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliot for his role in a domestic violence case.
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Mary Weatherford is known for her moody abstractions of landscapes both natural and contrived, but her latest series — filling both galleries of David Kordansky in Los Angeles and comprising her largest show to date, at least until an upcoming retrospective at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston — looks inward.
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He's a stock character that stands in for the ways that video games wrap themselves around contrived circumstances and thin characterizations to create their bosses and bad guys, the paper-thin forces of antagonism that exist to be solved over a couple attempts at a pulse-pounding encounter.
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"The tests are artificial and contrived," said Dr. Gary J. Patronek, an adjunct professor at the veterinary medicine school at Tufts, who roiled the shelter world last summer when he published an analysis concluding that the tests have no more positive predictive value for aggression than a coin toss.
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