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
Stevie’s small shop has a carefully designed yet fun and somehow uncontrived neo-1980s feel — Ms. Pac-Man, plastic booths, very cool stools, a pop-and-punk-culture collage wall.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2022
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
The interior designer makes the case for rooms that feel uncontrived and even impermanent.
From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2014
Indeed it's arguable that movies, really, were always where he belonged, because he needs a story to make uncontrived opportunities for his zany skills.
From The Guardian • Apr. 4, 2013
