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Contrived is a
Canadian indie rock band.
Based in Halifax, Nova
Scotia and Montreal, Quebec, the band
consists of Mike Bigelow, Loel Campbell, Mike MacNeill...
- of the 1830s, "How to
Write a
Blackwood Article",
which includes the
contrived acronym "P.R.E.T.T.Y.B.L.U.E.B.A.T.C.H." The use of
Latin and Neo-Latin...
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planned obsolescence. They are
listed in the
order of
increasing severity:
Contrived durability is a
strategy of
shortening the
product lifetime before it...
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extensive effort).
Willful ignorance is
sometimes called willful blindness,
contrived ignorance,
conscious avoidance,
intentional ignorance or
Nelsonian knowledge...
- move the plot forward. A clichéd plot
device may
annoy the
reader and a
contrived or
arbitrary device may
confuse the reader,
causing a loss of the suspension...
-
advantage that
outcomes are
observed in a
natural setting rather than in a
contrived laboratory environment. For this reason,
field experiments are sometimes...
-
conventions of
romantic comedy films is the
entertainment factor in a
contrived encounter of two
potential romantic partners in
unusual or
comic cir****stances...
- 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...
- A
contrived tenancy is a term used in
British housing law to
describe a
situation where a
tenancy is
created in
order to take
advantage of the housing...
- To
guard against floods, a
series of
defences against the
water were
contrived. In the
first millennium AD,
villages and
farmhouses were
built on hills...
