Sentence examples for contrived conflicts from inspiring English sources

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Not much happens over the show's two hours, and Rob Ackerman's book struggles to make sense of some of its more contrived conflicts.

The popularity of reality television, with its contrived conflicts and hokey simulacra, demonstrates a conscious enjoyment of the unmistakably fake.

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This is a conflict contrived by the NRA.

The ML1 is a not a "lightfield projector" or display by any broadly accepted definition, and as a Bi-Focal Display, only solves vergence-accommodation conflict in contrived demos that put all UI and environmental elements at one of two focus planes.

A more negative review of the film came from Manohla Dargis of The New York Times, who found it "a conventional, wan affair, despite its art-cinema flourishes" and thought that Anna's inability to obtain a visa was a contrived plot point that conflicted with Doremus's attempt at creating realism.

Yet the scene in which she is welcomed home, after a car accident, to be bathed and consoled by her sister without a word has a real, if exhausted, tenderness; the smarting emotions on show here are seldom contrived, and anyone versed in family conflict — that is, anyone with a family — will flinch at those moments when Demme cuts close to the bone.

A well-intentioned but hopelessly contrived Israeli picture dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it casts Faye Dunaway as a reporter from a fictional New York newspaper sent to Jerusalem to stand in for its regular correspondent for three weeks only.

Of more interest was the suspenseful Conflict (1945), which starred Humphrey Bogart in an overly contrived plot that nonetheless allowed Bernhardt to create moody visuals.

Now, in the wake of an already heated (albeit artificially contrived) controversy, he must ask himself whether a prolonged and public conflict is the best way to begin a second term.

What some Western observers mistook for true conflict between them was for the most part a carefully contrived balancing act.By the summer of 2011, the emptiness of Mr Medvedev's promises had become apparent.

One feels conflicted as to whether it adds to the occasion, or makes the whole event feel contrived.

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