In Evan Yionouli's showy staging, Mr. Walker's contrived effects -- neon lights, canned laughter, punk rock -- make a muddle out of a stab at dramatic, if not real-life, coherence.
While the plot seems intricately contrived, the effect is of a series of for-the-hell-of-it whammies – the most shameless show-stopping effect being a novelty nude scene highlighting the, let's say, very modern state of Dawson's mons pubis.
The brush strokes, which contrive the effect of colored crayons, give a poetic blur to the tree.
That said, could one not contrive this effect without going to all the trouble and expense of buying a completely new car?
The cantilevered balances the performers wrangle one another into are contrived for visual effect, but few of the visual effects are worth the contrivance.
A candlestick lit on a table seems to be the source of the chiaroscuro effect contrived in a picture within the drawing, that depicts a Greek marble torso.
Although in order to contrive durable effects, the relevance of strategies to encourage adherence to health-related behaviour increases.
The sophistication of the atmospheric effects contrived by the 25-year-old is remarkable.
Alexis Grenell, a 17-year-old Schechter student, said she thought it was contrived and had little effect on peers' attitudes.
The surreal effect is contrived, and any supposed satirical comment on modern Greece is not especially compelling.
