Both Uses of
contrived
in
The Screwtape Letters
- He has contrived to gratify both tastes together on the very world He has made, by that union of change and permanence which we call Rhythm.†
Chpt 25 *contrived = unnatural or arranged
- Even if we contrive to keep them ignorant of explicit religion, the incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry—the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon—are always blowing our whole structure away.†
Chpt 28contrive = arrange
Definition:
unnatural seeming (due to careful planning)
or more rarely:
arranged (that something should happen)
or more rarely:
arranged (that something should happen)