Despite some contrived Alabama discussion and Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban making seemingly desperate lobbying appearances on any network that would have him Saturday, there was little doubt who the four College Football Playoff teams would be when the selection committee made its announcement Sunday.
Source: Bleacher Report
Alan Gwizdowski’s cinematography suddenly evokes a tawdry sports drama, spotlights swirling around Brown’s head like a halo with a contrived sense of warmth, a tepid, generically motivational score stirring underneath his words.
Source: Rough Draft Atlanta Reporter Newspapers + Atlanta Intown
The material is relentlessly dour, the primary relationship feels contrived and implausible, and a couple of major developments late in the film come across as forced and heavy-handed.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
They're swept along, but for the audience everything feels too contrived to follow.
Source: Portland Mercury
But, again, there’s sufficient control to stop anything sounding stressed or contrived – the Theatre is simply capable of travelling from ‘near silence’ to ‘enormous planetary overload’ in a heartbeat.
Source: Stuff
Everything about Vadivelu’s comeback is contrived and teems with prosaic ideas.
Source: The Indian Express
Battelle in turn hired the Argonne National Laboratory – which then relied on data that was in part provided by Tetra Tech and vetted by the Navy – to produce a report that offered contrived changes to cleanup rules to save money for the Navy.
Source: Earth Island Journal
Predictable story beats occur, right in line with some of the tragic difficulties many of us faced while in lockdown, and it feels more contrived than authentic.
Source: Decider
Yet Luka's entire ordeal, while rather intense and mostly well executed from a technical perspective, felt more like a contrived way to get Carter out of the hospital than a necessary (or realistic) subplot.
Source: Looper
I guess it’s fitting that her character is more of a Hanukkah kind of girl, because the fire she brings to the role is almost strong enough to keep this contrived love story burning (at the lowest of simmers) for 83 minutes.
Source: IndieWire
Grade: B- 'Something from Tiffany’s'Proving that Hallmark hasn’t completely cornered the market on soft-serve Yuletide romance movies, Amazon offers up this contrived comedy about fate and witless men who buy their lovers gems from a certain New York City jeweler (gosh, I wish I could recall the store’s name) and don’t bother to make sure they brought home what they bought.
Source: The Patriot Ledger
Without resorting to pitched voices or contrived physicalities, Banville and Jacobs pull this off and manage to never laugh at their own antics.
Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune
AdvertisementRead More: Overwatch 2's New Tank Hero Is Every Reinhardt Player’s Worst NightmareFor those who want a confusing analogy for what playing against a skilled Ramattra player is like, here’s my contrived stab: Ramattra is an amalgamation of Doomfist’s aggro, Sigma’s zoning, Moira’s cheese, and Zenyatta’s poise for good measure.
Source: Kotaku
They're swept along, but for the audience, everything feels too contrived to follow.
Source: The Stranger
“People don’t like contrived social media content — a mix of beautiful real estate and real-life experience is necessary for a winning strategy,” she says.
Source: Inman
Constitution was this very carefully contrived mechanism for taking difference and turning it into good policy of having managed conflict, which leads to better thinking and better policy.
Source: WBUR News
When Batman does finally show up in the episode, it’s almost perfunctory, and the show needs to shove in a somewhat contrived action sequence just to make sure we’ve got some capes and punches.
Source: Paste Magazine
I agree that the use of the word “woke” in his context is getting tired at this point, but the constant barrage of attacks against this mindset are just as contrived in my eyes.
Source: Push Square
“Latter-day pop culture,” writes Irish music journalist John Waters, “has contrived to ‘forget’ that the roots of most of our contemporary musical forms emerge from Blues and Gospel, forms which stretch the true note between the muddy deltas of human habitation and the glittering firmaments above.
Source: The American Conservative
However, if the tone feels “off,” then your personalization efforts might come across as contrived or even creepy.
Source: HBR.org Daily
The book is filled with interesting quotes, but here are two of my favorites:
“As gardeners, the older we grow, the more we realize how limited is our knowledge, and our experience, and how we each have to discover what is aesthetically pleasing in our contrived associations, without losing sight altogether of the simple harmonies of Nature.
Source: Mail Tribune
This is a remarkably confident feature debut that makes just a few missteps in the writing; a couple of excessively contrived moments to get characters where they need to be, and an ending that’s a tad too cute in its wink-wink circuitousness.
Source: Movie Review Flickering Myth
But the story is just too scattershot and contrived to be swept away and moved in the same way that Colman finds herself swept away by the experience of the Peter Sellers’ classic “Being There.
Source: Finger Lakes Times
Asked by a reporter whether there might be a perception that the mission was contrived in order to give wealthy people tasks to do in space, Zurbuchen said: "I think it's only appropriate for us to look at this because of the tremendous value this research asset has for us.
Source: ScienceAlert
Meanwhile, WWE 2K20‘s own story mode failed spectacularly not only because of technical issues but also because of its contrived storyline.
Source: ClutchPoints
maybe idk bring her back instead of making up contrived reasons to keep them apart?
Jimmy Palmiotti: I know exactly what to do with the character, but it will cost you.
Source: Bleeding Cool News
READ MORE: Nine bombshells from Harry and Meghan's Netflix doc – from Nazi outfit to 'jarring' Kate The commentator and To Di For Daily podcast host said the segment in the documentary, that showed Meghan acting out the moment she met the Queen with a slow bow as a stone-faced Harry watches on, was "particularly contrived and uncomfortable".
Source: Daily Star
Many even started to analyze the girls' uncomfortable demeanors and painstakingly contrived answers.
Source: after son reveals they have no relationship Daily Mail
How much is self-knowing and as such contrived and how much is just a natural emotional outpouring should be impossible to tell, and Denno is fantastic at it because you absolutely can’t tell.
Source: part four: Messi as rat-scuttler, ITV go too 'jobs for the boys' Football365
As much charm as this minigame adds to Oblivion, it is a contrived minigame that only gets tiresome over repeated playthroughs, and does not fit in with the more serious tone of Starfield, from what can be guessed thus far off of developer diaries.
Source: Sportskeeda
“Aline,” the contrived biopic of a fictional Quebec singer who’s “freely inspired” by Céline Dion, may not be the worst movie of 2022.
Source: Oregon Public Broadcasting
Play adaptations are difficult in general and rest on theatrical conventions ( like the need to gather characters in one place for long bouts of conversation) that are always in danger of feeling claustrophobic and contrived onscreen.
Source: Vulture
14) one of the show’s recurring villains, the Vidiians, splits Torres into two separate, independently thinking people—dividing her human half and her Klingon half—for… science? To be sure, it’s no less-contrived than when James T.
Source: tor.com
Plot contrived to save our king: Tragically, as Quentin informed Tanya, Matteo couldn’t join the group on their doomed voyage back to the hotel in Taormina—which makes him one of the only survivors from Quentin’s inner circle.
Source: The Ringer
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