But ultimately all that action, superbly choreographed and balletic, is only a contrivance and nothing more. |
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It's a flimsy effort, but oddly, to me, so much more real than anything I've put on this here digital contrivance. |
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Beauty of contrivance, adaptation, or mechanism we have called Daedalian beauty. |
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It seems a contrivance, a gimmick designed to get attention, which it does. |
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But nature, by means of a curious contrivance, has rendered it impossible for men to remain eternally apart. |
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In our scheme of things it matters not, or it is of no import, whether the people intervene by accident of fate or by way of contrivance. |
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This contrivance has aesthetic consequences or is associated with aesthetic shortcomings. |
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Through the insidious contrivance called inflation, they could effectively transfer a portion of the oil fortune into their coffers. |
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Neither contrivance serves much purpose story-wise, other than to advance time and create tension during commercial breaks. |
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Successful navigation was almost entirely due to the skill of the crew as opposed to any man-made contrivance. |
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It's so well done, in fact, that it takes you about 10 minutes to go blind to the whole contrivance. |
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Rachel's investigation is a follow-the-dots exercise in coincidence and contrivance, like a gothic version of bad Agatha Christie. |
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There has been a good balance of comic contrivance with soap-opera storylines. |
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And then it ends in sexy hilarity with some clever contrivance I haven't thought of yet. |
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Parts seemed unnecessarily padded, and there was a lot of contrivance in dialogue. |
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And, as an added insult, the resolution relies upon a difficult-to-swallow contrivance. |
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The contrivance which strands the cast at this ominous place is a massive thunderstorm, which floods out both directions of the lone highway. |
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A master at work, he commands the screen with an effortless ease and a complete lack of artifice or contrivance. |
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It's where I find ideas coming to mind in an uncluttered, unhurried way, without pressure or contrivance. |
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And any reader who had imagined that her helter-skelter style was actually the product of careful contrivance will here be disabused. |
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Scenes flow organically from one to the next, with no contrivance to set something up just for the sake of a gag. |
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It is a giant, overwrought contrivance, a vehicle for communicating the filmmakers' murky and unappealing musings about society and human beings. |
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Yet the ensuing trip through Tinseltown excess feels more like a kerb-crawl than a joyride, which falls victim to just about every contrivance possible. |
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Radio stations need you glued to the seat long enough to hear about the latest contrivance you have to own or the drug you have to take or the movie you have to see. |
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Indeed, the handshake has permeated our culture, our etiquette, our daily lives, to become perhaps our most important non-verbal communicative contrivance. |
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What narrative contrivance can't put asunder, meddlesome parents, tucked not so quietly away in India, work hard to do. |
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Of course this is always an illusion in a literary text, produced by a great deal of contrivance and rewriting. |
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His timepiece is of colossal proportions, a computer infinitely greater than any man-made contrivance. |
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It's such a weird contrivance, I keep wondering who thought it up. |
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The Court of Justice is therefore trying to prevent any contrivance by means of which this subterfuge could be employed. |
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The ingenious contrivance for this purpose consisted of a crown wheel, rotated by the falling weight, whose teeth drove the pallets of a verge backwards and forwards. |
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A device is any instrument or contrivance intended for trapping, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest. |
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For example, the definition of the word conveyance will now include any contrivance used to hunt birds. |
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Years ago Friedman was on one of the Sunday morning TV news shows, and I always thought there was an air of contrivance about him, something unformed, immature. |
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But this exercise reeks of contrivance and even desperation. |
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When two or more of the simple mechanical powers are made to act in conjunction, to produce a given effect, the contrivance resulting from the union is called a compound machine. |
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One has waited in vain for a comparable exhibition there, only to be disappointed by a scattering of shallow displays, rich in contrivance and sparse in substance. |
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It would have been nice to know if there really was such a thing in the areas that Britain colonized or if it was merely a fictional contrivance of the writer. |
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The endless succession of quotation marks is its own contrivance, a scrim between Shields and the world. |
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Here, however, the novel ends with unearned sentimentality and cheap contrivance. |
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But possession breeds use as every apprentice office equipment salesman knows full well, and the contrivance that was unwanted yesterday becomes indispensable today. |
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Its primitive exuberance and chaotic brouhaha are the antithesis of the spit and polish contrivance of most contemporary sonic offerings. |
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This contrivance may have been used for mounting only, however, because of the danger of being unable to free the foot quickly in dismounting. |
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That acceleration is occurring just as it is observable by humans smells of coincidence or contrivance. |
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He placed this contrivance on the rim of the glass like a bridge, and loaded it with two lumps of sugar. |
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In order to guard against the occurrence of snow-blindness, the Eskimos wear a very ingenious contrivance, in the form of wooden goggles. |
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As melodrama and contrivance blossom in the movie's third act, Rivette's characteristic playfulness emerges more identifiably. |
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Seeing things thus will have their course, their appointed changes and vicissities, no contrivance or labor of men can prevent it. |
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To a certain extent, Greenwich, as a state of mind and as a vendible commodity, is a self-perpetuating contrivance, consisting of some amalgam of exclusivity and display. |
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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspirancy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. |
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And, by golly, it was, a purple-and-gold neon contrivance glowing atop the Holy Superet Light Church. |
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The discovery of this contrivance would doubtless be a pedagogical disaster, and yet its nondiscovery, Godwin implies, might prove even worse. |
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Each came in by this contrivance at his own door, and sat at an octagon table, at which, of course, there was no chief place or head. |
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Indeed there is no contrivance of our body, but some good man in Scripture hath hanselled it with prayer. |
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For the purposes of the Directive, fraud may be defined as deliberate deception or contrivance made to obtain the right of free movement and residence under the Directive. |
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The poison pill should be conceived of as a legal contrivance, invented by lawyers in response to hostile takeover bids and similar to other laws that the acquirer is obliged to respect in similar cases. |
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The machine is merely an electro-mechanical contrivance, no matter how greatly it excels the living brain in speed of calculation or manipulation. |
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The stick must not have any projection, tape, string, or other similar contrivance designed to increase the diameter of the floor end of the stick. |
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This contrivance of his did inwardly rejoice the cockles of his heart. |
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Shoes that are stitched aloft go through the same operations as the channel-stitched shoes, with the exception that the rounding machine contrivance of cutting is eliminated. |
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