contriving

Redondo hit the post twice in a matter of seconds - first seeing her header brilliantly tipped on to the woodwork by Daphne van Domselaar, before contriving to turn the rebound off the same upright.

Perhaps his primary knack was for contriving a tension between immaculate optics and human entropy.

Soon, she’s contriving all sorts of convoluted plans to entice the animal out of the forest and entrap it — and when she succeeds, “Wild” takes a strange, feral turn.

When Adam Smith warned in “The Wealth of Nations” against private sector cartels contriving to raise prices, he did not imagine a 21st-century cartel of governments conspiring to increase tax extractions.

But I wonder if such a connection can even be made between then and our friendship now, or if I’m contriving it to appease in me some compulsion for closure.