Without charisma, she contrives to shine. She starts the electoral season with a hoard of political capital. |
It contrives to combine boastfulness, ignorance, insecurity and hostility in ample and self-reinforcing measures. |
For a man who spends so much time in the gym and out on the golf course, he contrives to keep remarkably poor health. |
He hardly resembles Lt. Harry Flashman, a duplicitous poltroon who hides during battle and contrives to claim others' glories. |
Cloistered in luxury, Des Esseintes contrives a regimen of exquisite sensualism. |
In one quite amazingly deft movement he too contrives to wiggle into the minute room. |