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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.
Compared to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (a convoluted snore) or Captain America: Civil War (bombastic and contrived), X-Men: Apocalypse is the one that's worth the price of admission.
The cantilevered balances the performers wrangle one another into are contrived for visual effect, but few of the visual effects are worth the contrivance.
The battle for the Christmas number one spot is usually contrived nonsense, but this time it might just be saying something worth hearing.
Latter-day Simpsons is likewise loud, erratic and contrived, and makes one laugh so intermittently that it's scarcely worth sitting through.
It's worth noting that Governor Perry has dismissed global warming as "one contrived, phony mess" and that many of the voices calling most loudly for change at the University of Texas are from the Tea Party fringe.
Liam Lacey of Globe and Mail criticized the film, stating "Though Little Miss Sunshine is consistently contrived in its characters' too-cute misery, the conclusion, which is genuinely outrageous and uplifting, is almost worth the hype".
Seems totally contrived".
