Still because the military and ISI in Pakistan play a crucial, if slightly contrived, role in fighting violent extremism, America helps them scale up efforts by increasing military aid.
Mr. Rosen has a somewhat contrived role as Gabriel — yes, the name's a mite symbolic, as it is believed he's a fallen pilot.
Usually it's contrived, part of the selling ritual.
And though his role feels largely contrived (and at first unbearably nerdy), Mr. Arkin, with his sad, rubbery mug and subtle physicality, finally imbues Michael with a sweetness and a spine that earn him good wishes.
The obituaries make Colonel Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now" seem like a rehearsal for the final isolation of our greatest actor, and there were ways, I think, in which it was a contrived and even an engineered role.
But, for all the actor's mustache-wrangling panache, these roles can seem contrived, like two modes of playing "Grand Theft Brothel".
None of this role-playing seems contrived or intrusive; it's the sheer variety of the invention, and the soundworld created for it, that holds the attention, with its blend of Adams-inflected post-minimalism rock sonorities combined with Muhly's own melodic gift.
Foster has seen it all before, and so has the Doctor (Barbara Marten, who plays several roles), but their patience and knowingness feel contrived to Emma.
Scott Bairstow's guest role was praised, though it was noted that "an ultimately contrived plot and a stereotypical Bible-thumping Southern milieu make for a case more suited to Jessica Fletcher than Mulder and Scully".
This sorry episode shows again the appalling lack of accountability among church officials who for years contrived to cover up crimes by priests while denying their own roles in allowing the abuse to happen.
Newer roles, including Don's black secretary, Dawn, are more contrived, but the show keeps finding fresh angles on complicated subjects, like the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., which it re-created as a tone poem of white-person awkwardness.
