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The exhilarating surprise of her new novel is that in it, she masters one of the most contrived forms of all, the thriller.
Would this seem impersonal and contrived?
Simultaneously inspired and contrived, clever and crude."
"The way Salinger handled the publicity he said he did not want was a bit too contrived to get attention itself," Paul Alexander concludes at the end of his new biography.
(House and Senate ethics rules prohibit the use of official facilities for campaign purposes, which means that any "hearing" in a political ad must be contrived, and made to look as authentic as possible.)