Court records indicate that he paid $1.9 million for the vessel but contrived, via several corporate shells he controlled, to make the price and the insured value appear to be $3.5 million.
Northup contrived to escape several times during that period but was unsuccessful.
Despite several ridiculously contrived incidents, the novel creates a wonderfully observed portrait of a family fractured and fragmented by grief, their lives irrevocably divided into a before and after.
In Weldon's 34th novel, the narrator ("Your writer," who has also written 34 novels but is, unlike Weldon, married to a man named Rex) daily descends to her damp basement, where she hunches over her laptop and fitfully contrives the tale of several generations of women, their fathers, lovers, husbands, hangers-on and dogs.
In comparison with European populations, several factors may contrive to reduce the complexity of the trait of obesity in Saudi Arabia.
There are several steps in avoiding contrived "grin and bear it" moments.
Several versions, all expertly contrived, are always on hand at Auberge Maxime, in its old-fashioned country-French dining rooms.
The incident, like several others, seems tinnily contrived to present evil not just as an affair of monsters but also as home-grown as bangers and mash.
Hume also pointed out that the argument does not necessarily lead to the existence of one God: "why may not several deities combine in contriving and framing the world?" (p. 108).
And I'll be catching several buzzy acts who I contrived to miss last year – Ivo Graham, Ursula Burns, Trygve (Squidboy) Wakenshaw, Phil Wang, Paul Currie.
Prospero contrives to separate the shipwreck survivors into several groups by his spells, and so Alonso and Ferdinand are separated, each believing the other to be dead.
