| The plot contrives miracles and coincidence to suggest there's something deeper going on behind the free-wheeling mess on-screen. |
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| Gilda soon runs away from the horrible situation, but Johnny contrives her return for a final confrontation. |
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| However, it never ceases to amaze me how this country contrives to waste its natural assets. |
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| In one quite amazingly deft movement he too contrives to wiggle into the minute room. |
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| Billy Boyd steals every scene he is in, as a comic, hero-worshipping colleague of Frank's, who somehow contrives to complicate the proceedings. |
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| For a man who spends so much time in the gym and out on the golf course, he contrives to keep remarkably poor health. |
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| It contrives to combine boastfulness, ignorance, insecurity and hostility in ample and self-reinforcing measures. |
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| He knows that the return of Ilsa can only send Rick into a slough of self-pity, and so Sam contrives to break the fall. |
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| It's to Chandor's credit that he contrives an ending that is both graceful and dramatic without lapsing into melodramatics. |
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| Cloistered in luxury, Des Esseintes contrives a regimen of exquisite sensualism. |
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| And, like a rash that won't go away, he contrives to be everywhere. |
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| Later, the video editing contrives to make the painting of Turner emerge on the features of the young woman by means of a fade-in. |
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| He hardly resembles Lt. Harry Flashman, a duplicitous poltroon who hides during battle and contrives to claim others' glories. |
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| Storywise, things begin to blur around the edges at this point, but Bourne contrives a suitably happy ending. |
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| Without charisma, she contrives to shine. She starts the electoral season with a hoard of political capital. |
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| In any case, there can be no authentic friendship where one party contrives to get more out of it than the other. |
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| Escape to a magnificent setting where everything contrives to make your experience rare and magical. |
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| In spite of Bartolo's presence, the young lady contrives to pass a love letter to Lindoro. |
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| A highly-motivated team of professionals contrives, in a flexible way, to realize projects of the most varying nature. |
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| Another dictionary I looked at actually states that an architect is a person who plans, devises, or contrives the achievement of a desired result. |
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| Nowadays it contrives to be a functioning democracy at the heart of a society that has remained essentially hierarchical. |
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| For textile firms, trade continues to be regulated by the hoary old Multifibre Arrangement, which still contrives to protect the textile industry in rich countries where labour costs far more than in China. |
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| And there is still no sign of a promised law to improve competition in telecoms. In this section The siesta congress Quick march What goes around ReprintsEven where there is consensus, Congress contrives to disagree. |
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| It is both a necessity and a challenge to break with a form of agriculture that contrives to make biological systems ever more artificial and standardized. |
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| Crowds, smaller groups, or sometimes only isolated individuals, the ensemble contrives to make the street come to life, a square, or the inside of a café, like a secret choreography. |
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