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  1. A childhood ambition to visit Central Africa was realized in 1889,when Conrad, contrived ,to reach the Congo Free State. He became captain of a Congo steamboat, and the
  2. Many works stay within the realm of biblical stories and religious thought, contrived ,from other Christian authors. Catechetical lectures His famous twenty-three
  3. Took steps to have him educated in the Roman Catholic faith, his mother, contrived ,his escape. For two years his brother and he lived as fugitives in the
  4. Is, by obvious dramatizing, the media reinforces the idea that all things are, contrived ,for someone's gain which could be another definition of, at least, political
  5. Problem. To guard against floods, a series of defenses against the water were, contrived , In the first millennium AD, villages and farmhouses were built on man-made
  6. Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals" and says that, although the screenplay is, contrived , it" left plenty of room for dance and all of it was superb. … Although the
  7. Nuclei alone. As with many scientific fields, strict delineation can be highly, contrived ,and atomic physics is often considered in the wider context of atomic
  8. Who would not meet or talk under normal circumstances, and the meet cute's, contrived ,situation provides the opportunity for these two people to meet. Use of" meet
  9. With Samuel) is described as having been one of the archangels. Because he, contrived ," to make his throne higher than the clouds over the earth and resemble 'My
  10. In' direction (actually 'in' → 'East' → 'sunrise' → 'up' ) may appear, contrived , Previously, as related in the first reference cited above, Faraday had used
  11. Alone it's not obvious that NP-complete problems exist. A trivial and, contrived ,NP-complete problem can be formulated as: given a description of a Turing
  12. Does not inherently exist, and that any established moral values are abstractly, contrived , Nihilism can also take epistemological, metaphysical,or ontological forms
  13. Of conversations, as it purports to be, but a highly elaborate structure, contrived ,by the Savories, who must therefore be regarded as the real authors. On this
  14. Prevent unintended assignments. DO FOREVER; obviates the need for the, contrived ,construct DO WHILE ('1'B);. The DEFINE-statement introduces user-specified
  15. In shape would not be stable, and the water would not stay in our artificially, contrived ,shape, but engage in a transient exploration of many shapes until non-ideal
  16. By Palate a son, Phocus, whom he preferred to the two others, both of whom, contrived ,to kill Focus during a contest, and then fled from their native island. After
  17. But in its judgment the court ruled this approach to be no more than a ", contrived ,dualism which has not scientific factual basis or legitimate educational
  18. However, the TDK is occasionally criticized for coining words which sound, contrived ,and artificial. Some earlier changes—such as bole to replace fork,"
  19. As much of the fortification as possible. Provided this was not so unnaturally, contrived ,as to allow an attacker to drain the system, it served two defensive purposes.
  20. Both Johnson and Nash had reservations about performing at short notice in the, contrived ,manner dictated by the TV show format. Nevertheless, in celebration of the 25th
  21. And Victoria. Friedrich described the Imperial Constitution as" ingeniously, contrived ,chaos. " The office of Chancellor responsible to the Kaiser would be replaced
  22. The Great Depression in the 1930s; screwball comedy films made a heavy use of, contrived ,romantic" meet cuts ", perhaps because the more rigid class consciousness and
  23. The couple together for much of the screenplay. However, movies in which the, contrived ,situation is the main feature, such as Some Like It Hot, rather than the
  24. Have cautiously supported these claims, others have dismissed them as ", contrived ,". Tycho Another hypothesis argues that long-period comets, rather than
  25. Again into other forms, in ways that again may be natural and/or volitionally, contrived , The final effect may be purely physical, or it may reach far into the
  26. Until the fitness (or error) of some individual is less than 0.1. In this, contrived ,example, our example run will (atypically) yield an algebraically perfect
  27. Actually has another effect of heightening the sense of falseness and, contrived ,stories, underpinning the public's loss of belief in virtually anything any
  28. Little to no quality checking. The initialism" FAQ" possibly started as a, contrived ,three-letter abbreviation with an auditory similarity to the word" facts" (
  29. He promptly reported the incident to Aphrodite's Olympian consort. Hephaestus, contrived ,to catch the couple in the act, and so he fashioned a finely-knitted and nearly
  30. West' → 'sunset' → 'down ',i.e. 'out of view' ) may appear unnecessarily, contrived , Previously, as related in the first reference cited above, Faraday had used
  31. It has been said that, without Caston's input,Largo's antics appear, contrived , Comics Bulletin regards Megatons characters as convincingly portrayed
  32. Describes first a simple" abacus" of" slips of wood furnished with pins, contrived ,so that any part or class of the logical combinations can be picked out
  33. Between the generalities of ethics and the conditions of an ingeniously, contrived ,practical dilemma. Diderot's interest expressed itself in didactic and
  34. The" meet cute" One of the conventions of romantic comedy films is the, contrived ,encounter of two potential romantic partners in unusual or comic circumstances
  35. Rhyme structure is AAB; the subject and wording are often humorously, contrived ,in order to achieve a rhyme * The first line contains, and may consist solely
  36. On others ". He wrote:" For quite six years the English admirers of Hitler, contrived ,not to learn of the existence of Dachau and Buchenwald. ... Many English people
  37. Set phrase c'est" he/she/it is" remains unchanged. The following" highly, contrived ," Old English sentence serves as an example of gender agreement. The word hire
  38. Situations Certain movies are entirely driven by the meet-cute situation, and, contrived , circumstances throw the couple together for much of the screenplay. However
  39. Influence through his youth and weak character. So it was that Pope Innocent I, contrived ,to have Honors write to his brother, condemning the deposition of John
  40. One (The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mad About You) and lighter fare may require, contrived ,romantic meetings. The heyday of" meet cute" in films was during the Great
  41. See of Sabina, that pretender never gave up his claims, and through his party, contrived ,apparently to keep some hold on a portion of Rome. To complicate matters
  42. Agreed, however,that this invented name, adopted in the mid-19th century, was, contrived , solely to be the longest name of any town in Britain. The official name of the
  43. Methods are purely descriptive and include naturalistic observation,", contrived ," observation, participant observation, and archival analysis. These are less
  44. Lewis argues that the moral law is like the laws of nature in that it was not, contrived ,by humans. However, it is unlike natural laws in that it can be broken or
  45. Plots involving extraterrestrials, fantasy creatures, and bizarre, often, contrived , plots. Lois' main interests in various late 1950s and 1960s stories became
  46. He believed were the underhand tactics of bike factories. When the Halcyon team, contrived ,to get Maurice De Waele to win even though he was sick, National teams
  47. We couldn't manage to convert to a Czechoslovak ". This example is of course, contrived ,; but long words do frequently occur in normal Turkish, as in this heading of a
  48. Of its columnists, who said the story of an industry-funded denial machine was, contrived ,and fundamentally misleading. ABC News reported in March 2008 that Singer said
  49. Work, the figure carefully observed, solidly modeled, and superimposed upon a, contrived ,landscape. If the work is still a 'student' piece, already Renoir's
  50. Act of dramatizing real or fictional events injects a degree of falseness or, contrived ,efforts which media savvy people today can identify easily. " News" today is

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