contrivances

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Are fans so consumed by the mystery of who died at the end that they’re willing to forgive the numerous contrivances and shameless manipulations of this installment?

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2025

The film can’t afford to be shy about contrivances, but it’s only willing to cheat on facts, not feelings.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2025

“We Live in Time” is also chock-full of contrivances.

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2024

But the contrivances that have enabled them to construct such a tight nuts-and-bolts thriller also allow them to dodge grappling with the characters’ ideology as ideology.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2023

Adams had spent most of his retirement years denouncing such contrivances as gross distortions of history.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis