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He fell for her image and contrived to meet her, and despite Twain’s many eccentricities, her distinguished family accepted him.

“Trying to achieve these cuts wholesale through a contrived and meaningless quota could deprive the military of significant operational acumen at a dangerous time in our history,” a Pentagon source told me on background.

But our associates, who are assigned to each show, adapt the teaching of the illusions to the needs of the performers, because illusions have to feel natural to not appear contrived.

Her death, largely contrived by Cromwell at the behest of his prince, bookends the 2015 adaptation and opens the 2025 sequel, creating a kind of illusion that the ten years separating them never existed.

While "Backtrack" may be somewhat contrived in its plotting, the jump scares and Brody’s moody performance remain effective.