You might have thought the press wanted us to forget the overwrought prose and contrived emotion with which it greeted Diana's death 10 years ago.
But she ends up contriving emotion with breathy flourishes and fake ornamentation.
It is the story of Puff, a literary public-relations man who has written a preposterous historical melodrama that embodies all the worst features of conventional verse dramas among them bloated emotions, contrived plots, and absurd madness scenes.
Exegesis of Crane grows specious when it imposes logic upon metaphors Crane contrived to evoke emotion and states of mind rather than to convey linear meaning.
Ms. Bruning's "dark parade," a premiere to a melodic string quartet commissioned from Giovanni Spinelli, is less contrived but still substitutes emoting for emotion.
There can be contrived, false outpourings of emotion.
She elicits emotion through contrived death poses using limp bodies, recently vacated.
But I can tell you that I'm even more tightly bonded with her now, and that's not because of some orchestrated, contrived effort to plumb her emotions.
And, historically, politicians who have shown a flash of anger or resentment have sometimes benefited — even when that emotion is perhaps contrived or planned.
Pochettino was in the mood to give vent to his emotions after his team had contrived to turn a position of strength into a defeat which, rather abruptly, has imperilled their qualification to the knockout rounds of the Europa League.
The Fox show "Trading Spouses" and "Wife Swap," the ABC version coming in the fall, are just as contrived, yet they foment yeasty displays of emotion that somehow ring true.
