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Contrive are a
heavy metal band from Melbourne,
Australia formed in 1999.
Their musical style has been
compared to that of Sepultura. The band consists...
- Bradshaw,
Peter (22 May 2024). "Parthenope
review –
Paolo Sorrentino contrives a facile, bikini-clad self-parody". The Guardian.
Retrieved 24 May 2024...
- itself. The
basically conventional script is not much more inspired,
contriving to be coy and tongue-in-ch****
without ever
being witty, so that one positively...
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invaded England.
Elizabeth asked Paulet, Mary's
final custodian, if he
would contrive a
clandestine way to "shorten the life" of Mary,
which he
refused to do...
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Volscian leader Attius Tullus Aufidius sought to stir up
trouble in Rome by
contriving for the
Roman senate to
expel the
Volsci from the city
during the Great...
- (Including
antisocial features) Underhanded, double-dealing, scheming,
contriving, plotting, crafty, false-hearted; egocentric, insincere, deceitful, calculating...
- 2006), Simons, Geoff. Iraq: From
Sumer to
Saddam (2nd ed. 1994) Sluglett, Peter.
Britain in Iraq:
Contriving King and Country, 1914–1932 (2nd ed. 2007)...
- physics,
hypotheses non
fingo (Latin for "I
frame no hypotheses", or "I
contrive no hypotheses") is a
phrase used by
Isaac Newton in the
essay General Scholium...
- William's ****ual
liaison with a
cleric named Berterus; he took his
revenge by
contriving the
recitation of a
scurrilous jingle at the
papal curia, thus effectively...
- self-interested agents,
Crawford became a man
suspected of
deliberately contriving his own election,
something feared by all others.
Despite these accusations...
