2. America's Next Top Social Media Guru -- A group of jerks who aspire towards the arbitrary title of being "Top" something compete in a series of ridiculous and contrived challenges that test their skill in seeming competent and successful despite having no actual skills.
Stern judges and contrived challenges.
Serene-like bloated zeppelins, stern judges, contrived challenges.
It's the party's right that unnecessarily threw the spanner in the works with this contrived coup and leadership challenge.
Legislative histories can be contrived and sanitized, favorable media coverage orchestrated, and postenactment recollections conveniently distorted.
Why devote precious time to contrived plots and imagined scenarios?
The biota contrived more and more ways of exploiting more and more environments.
Sincere and contrived, amateurish and slick, this new one adds a baffling footnote to his résumé.
The experiences fed to foreigners are contrived, controlled and restricted to a trusted few.
There are several steps in avoiding contrived "grin and bear it" moments.
College felt contrived, theoretical and irrelevant.
