uncontrived

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“Past Lives” and “The Holdovers” are excellent original screenplays full of characters that feel real and uncontrived, which is funny considering the characters in “Maestro” are real but feel the most fake.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2024

Street photographers — like news photographers — shoot life as it happens, natural and uncontrived.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022

“Dylan is — and I can say this in equal parts for my feeling about her as a person and as an actress — as uncontrived as it gets,” Penn says.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2021

Like an Instagram peacock affecting an uncontrived display of threads, Cohen needed something to do with his hands, and he completed the look with a wise guy’s self-satisfied cigar.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2018

We want them to feel inventive but uncontrived, lifelike but extraordinary, surprising but inevitable, illuminating but mysterious, resolved but open-ended.

From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2014