To me, all of Bush's images have "contrivance" written all over them.
Melissa Gregg, a researcher at Intel and the foremost scholar of such contrivances, has written, "Productivity apps are the digital assistants increasingly required when the gendered labor of the secretary and the wife is not so easily available".
Vonnegut ultimately gave up on writing stories, put off by what he saw as their contrivance: "Short stories are artificial; they are very clever misrepresentations of life," Vonnegut told me, in 1997.
And though this begins to smack of contrivance, Mr. Petrick has written a particularly good scene, a frenetic three-way argument, to end the first act.
The coy hints of connections between the author and the narrator have been forced onto a plot that can't accommodate them, and the fact that Danny is a famous novelist too often seems a mere contrivance, giving Irving a convenient opportunity to include rambling background information and to air his own ideas about writing.
As in Sebald, what moves the prose forward is not event or contrivance but a steady, accidental inquiry, a firm pressurelessness (which is to say, what moves the prose forward is the prose — the desire to write, to defeat solitude by writing).
Writing in 1776, Adam Smith (a moral philosopher even though he is known for economic thought) argued that "people of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices".
Writing for AllMusic, James Christopher Monger compared the record to the works of American recording artists Kesha and Lady Gaga, and favourably summarised it as "a brooding, sexy, desperate, overwrought, and infectious record that's both aware and unashamed of its contrivance".
Despite writing that "on paper ['Medusa' is] the right episode at the right time", the two criticized the episode, noting that "the teaser never really makes sense in light of the relations offered, the appearance of the mute boy is a messy contrivance, and the ending is too abrupt".
In September, he "dissected with the greatest interest" and wrote, "The contrivances for insect fertilisation in Orchids are multiform & truly wonderful & beautiful".
