contrivance

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While I’m sure it makes perfect sense to the algorithm, the result is an exceedingly strange, questionably authentic mix of moods, genre conventions and contrivances.
Netflix’s My Unorthodox Life Is More Bravo Docusoap Than Real-Life Unorthodox | Judy Berman | July 14, 2021 | Time
Despite reality TV being a buzzing hive of manipulations and contrivances, the captain says Sailing Yacht remains, at least in its filming methods, pure.
Is Glenn Shephard, the ‘Below Deck Sailing Yacht’ Captain, the Nicest Guy on Reality TV? | Tim Teeman | May 14, 2021 | The Daily Beast
Here, however, the novel ends with unearned sentimentality and cheap contrivance.
Ian McEwan's New Novel Keeps Life at Arm's Length | Nick Romeo | September 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

The endless succession of quotation marks is its own contrivance, a scrim between Shields and the world.
Is Fiction Worthless? David Shields Think So | Jacob Silverman | February 8, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Baseball: "an incredibly complex contrivance that seems to have been created by a chauvinistic mathematician."
On the Peninsula | Bryan Curtis | April 25, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
He dwelt upon this contrivance, until it seemed too complicated for success.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV. | Various
The latter seems to have suggested the contrivance and the former to have done the practical work.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing Miller
"It was by Marius's contrivance that he was placed sentry over the girl," he heard her tell Fortunio, and he thought she sneered.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael Sabatini
Such a contrivance helps to improve the leeway of so shallow a boat, although not proportionately to the area immersed.
Yachting Vol. 2 | Various.
Toward the latter part of his sickness, a rude contrivance was adopted to change his position in bed.
Charles Duran | The Author of The Waldos

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