He had mentioned a fondness for Jobriath, and I had dropped the word contrived into his lap.
The words sounded contrived and comical.
You can get away dialogue like "be it on your conscience" on the stage, but in film such stately-sounding words feel contrived – not surprisingly, like actors reading from scripts.
Seeing it for the first time, my impression is that at times it is "choreographed" in the negative sense that theater folk often use the word: posey, unspontaneous, contrived.
In other words, it is contrived.
Yeah, here I come, I'm inches, Nonce words are sometimes contrived to rhyme with orange.
The cue was obvious since Lana was warily stabbing at a green bud, but the tone was unexpected, almost contrived, as though he were reading words written inside his head.
The extreme in gender-blindness was reached in Sweden's 1995 Parental Leave Act, which was so right-on that it contrived not even to use the words "mother" and "father".The problem is that dads tend not to take up the offer.
"Some of the associates, some of the partners, thought it was too contrived; maybe corny was probably a better word," said A. William Urquhart, the firm's hiring partner.
'Super MArio Bros.' Taught Me to Be the Best, and More Lessons from the Mushroom Kingdom.
For some people the word crossover has a very commercial contrived smell about it.
