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The example was contrived to illustrate exactly this point: that sometimes we cannot select a site that fits our needs and thus the method is not appropriate.
The lonely lamp-lit couples in his "Modern Romance" (1984-86), contrived with dolls and miniature props soon after his move to New York City in 1983, effectively evoke the nighttime diners and hotel bedrooms of Edward Hopper and film noir.
When an identity is contrived or reconstructed in exile after a long fallow period of nonidentification--as in the potato-famine campaign--it's bound to be more radical than the real thing, like the religious convert who becomes more zealous than those born into a religion.
It is rich in contrived rock formations, vegetation, and waterfalls.
But the Village Voice 's Michael Atkinson calls the acting "generally lifeless, [with the] contrived feel of a Thanksgiving Day parade."