They work, they may even work admirably well, but there is no sense that these contrivances are the result of an omnipotent designer. |
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All of them had various handy contrivances devised by their owner which saved toil. |
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A big part of it has to do with lame plot contrivances that slow the movie down rather than speeding it up. |
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Its pulsing inventiveness charges the most absurd contrivances with life, just as opera should. |
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They don't romanticize the instrument's folk origins or go in for New Age contrivances. |
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Unconventional contrivances and machina arcana include a range of desktop siege weapons including miniature trebuchets, ballistae, and mangonels. |
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Although it has a superficial sheen, the film is mired in structural errors, weak plot contrivances and flimsy characterisation. |
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These contrivances that I declare unto thee are legitimate means of kingcraft. They are not reckoned as methods fraught with deceit. |
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While the last half-hour is as suspenseful as you could hope, it takes an awful lot of contrivances to get there. |
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It is strictly prohibited to disable the safety contrivances or to change the way they work. |
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This presents an obstacle to the organization of Fisheries Associations overcome only through contrivances to ensure voluntary compliance. |
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There is no assemblage without territory, territoriality and reterritorialisation that comprises all kinds of contrivances. |
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The temple has many traps and contrivances which are built in order to fool one's enemies. |
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While lyric poetry in English has not been without its private contrivances or tropes of conquest, for the most part its ontology has been one of engagement. |
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Much ink has been spilled over the wonky science and plot contrivances of Interstellar. |
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Particularly annoying among the record's contrivances is its frivolous use of drum machines, which skip and stutter when the songs call for simple beats. |
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Within its limits the image blends two main features of Darwin's world, its astonishingly evolved, beautiful, sexual and reproductive contrivances and its deathliness. |
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And the play's contrivances have an alienating effect. |
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Recognition of this may induce a sense of humility so that the Health Care Ethics Committee acknowledges that its deliberations and recommendations are, like all human contrivances, prone to error. |
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You live simply, without the contrivances of our modern life. |
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Leveraged financial institutions are among the wobbliest of human contrivances. |
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There were, for example, dozens of handmade lighting devices and many specialized contrivances such as the trammel, for raising and lowering pots in the fireplace, and the corn planter. |
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A touch of rebalancing away from such contrivances is probably in order. |
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In fact, many contrivances, however odd they look, do work. |
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