calculatedly

A surge in sightings of balloons from China flying over Taiwan has drawn the attention of the island’s military and struck some experts as a calculatedly ambiguous warning to voters weeks before its presidential election.

There is, however, an important qualitative difference between telling voters what they’d like to hear or dialing an issue up or down depending on the audience and knowingly, calculatedly telling a flat-out lie.

In another moment, she says, calculatedly blasé: “I guess I’m just relatable.”

The movie builds to a calculatedly outrageous image that I won’t give away here, except to say that it feels a little too taken with its own fleshy audacity.

Yet both have calculatedly peddled their images — like plenty of the born rich do — as industrious, self-made success stories.