When he saw that they carved differently, he contrived a process to rotate the cutters at 10-minute intervals, disguising the medley of touches.
Guillen rightly finds the formality of the interview process contrived.
Claims that the whole selection process was contrived to assist Khan, who led Ed Miliband's Labour leadership campaign, have been being fed to journalists for months.
In others, you find scrolls worth of sites that can read uncomfortably contrived — describing a "local" process or a "values-based approach" that doesn't quite feel natural.
She reports: "At first the process felt contrived, but after a few meetings we got used to the meeting's structure.
As late as 1969, he remained concerned that "after millions of years of successful evolution, human life is now deteriorating genetically," warning in Life magazine that "we must contrive a new process of evolutionary selection" in order to survive.
Since watching jokes I co-wrote for our German production withering in the translation process, all their contrived weaknesses exposed, I have stopped writing jokes as such, and feel I am a better stand-up because of it.
MR: (laughs) Do you think there could be any type of show of the same vein that could develop and showcase talent with a process that isn't quite as contrived?
This process, incremental and well-intentioned here, schemed, contrived, and opportunistic there, was undertaken in the name of a Christ who ran from heaven into our midst, who forsook, as Milton said, "the courts of everlasting day".
Finding her drugged, drunk, and bloodied on a back road near his farm, Lazarus takes her in and nurtures her with tough love, in a process of chaste mutual redemption that is as contrived and sentimental as it sounds.
