Sentences with phrase «d gimmickry»

Boasting none of the lyricism, grace or psychological incisiveness of his prior masterworks (Paris, Texas; Wings Of Desire), Wenders» latest is a misbegotten stew of turgid drama and look - at - me 3 - D gimmickry, with the director using his signature special effects to highlight foreground - background dynamics in the most unnecessarily self - conscious manner possible.

A lot of resources went into making G - Force — a lot of talent, a lot of money, a lot of marketing — and it doesn't have much to show for it, not even some half - way imaginative 3 - D gimmickry.

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Waiving PAYGO now on the grounds that the AMT's growth was «unanticipated» would accept a false claim — that the growth of the AMT was not expected or intended — and would reward the budget gimmickry used in designing the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts.

Were Congress to waive the Pay - As - You - Go rules now and deficit - finance the AMT patch, lawmakers would merely be rewarding the budget gimmickry of 2001.

And it made me wonder what kind of God would leverage the life of a young man on how well we were to perform this psychological gimmickry, and about a matter that, if we're honest with ourselves, we can't be certain of.

They've seen through the gimmickry.

Aided by some budgetary gimmickry, the governor through this year has, at least technically, stuck to the 2 percent line — but has also spent any resulting excess cash before it could accumulate into much of a true surplus.

«For the second year in a row, the administration has resorted to gimmickry to get under the tax cap.»

Instead of trafficking in populist gimmickry, Mr Miliband might more usefully spell out how Labour would recast the energy market.

In a time so inundated with cinematic gimmickry, a filmmaker such as Ingmar Bergman would never succeed.

Compelled by Warner Bros. to film Dial M for Murder in 3 - D, Hitchcock perversely refused to throw in the standard in - your - face gimmickry of most stereoscopic films of the era — though watch how he visually emphasizes an important piece of evidence towards the end of the film.

has a title that reeks of mediocre gimmickry, and indeed this film is more than a little silly.

With vulnerability and pain snapping straight into big laughs, IRON MAN 3 has the potential for some serious emotional whiplash, but where things occasionally steer off - track and threaten to go a little «Carry On Marvel», the choice to steep the antagonists in such deep - rooted realism prevents this comic book outing from predictable gimmickry.

Though die - hard fans have clearly come to expect this kind of computer - generated gimmickry, with rare exceptions — the half - horse, half - eagle Hippogriffs are a great success — these kooky bits of business are both unconvincing and a distraction from the emotional core that makes the Potter books so special.

From the first bow - slide to the last beat, it feels so packed and suffused with emotion, sound - gimmickry (remember «Climbing up the Ladder» s extremely disconcerting strings which have been ingeniously arranged to make you feel like you wither away) and Yorke's other - worldly voice.

The elaborations (some would say gimmickry) of Emma Rice's short tenure have been reined back, and a new concentration prevails.

Technical gimmickry dominates the day, as Jean - Luc Godard revolutionizes 3 - D with his new avant - garde puzzle Goodbye To Language, and Xavier Dolan invents his own Instagram - like aspect ratio for Mommy.

Unfriended has the potential to rely on computer - generated gimmickry and «teen speak» but doesn't.

Unsane takes the handmade appearance of a found footage movie but removes the artificial gimmickry, and only leaves the general sensation that this horrible story feels more «real» than we'd really like it to.

Since this is in 3 - D, Hurwitz and Schlossberg mildly poke the gimmick («Hasn't 3 - D jumped the shark,» Harold wonders), while director Todd Strauss - Schulson takes full advantage of such gimmickry as eggs and their yolks flying at the camera in slow motion as Harold attempts to escape the protestors» wrath.

It's clearly smart enough that it could have surpassed movies like «Rain Man» and «Transamerica,» both of which rely too heavily on gimmickry and fail to achieve such fully rounded human representations.

Though Rocky and Rocky have become synonymous with scrappy underdog tales, the movie is upfront about the gimmickry afoot when Balboa is plucked from obscurity to fight reigning champ Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) when a more experienced boxer drops out.

Shaking Chains have created an AI - powered video that changes with every play, but how does their attempt rank in the pantheon of music video gimmickry?

«We believe in publicly funded public education and we believe that we can have a system in Chicago that is equal to or exceeds school districts in Finland or Japan,» she says of the colleagues with whom she has reshaped the Chicago Teachers Union into a leading force in the fight against school privatization, closures, cuts and the gimmickry that too often passes for education policy.

But all the new generation Hyundais and Marutis have spoilt us with the keyless go and push button start gimmickry, something missing on this Merc.

Back at the beginning of his career, customers were paying as little as $ 50 apiece to learn how to «focus» enough to be able to walk over hot coals pain free (a bit of gimmickry that the debunker James Randi tells us has nothing to do with mental preparation and everything to do with the principles of heat conduction).

Totally, you're right that Iyer and Sebald haven't become the travel writing titans they are just by using gimmickry — they're simply great writers.

While F - Zero still feels pretty intense even by modern standards, the illusion of its Mode 7 gimmickry has proven less resilient.

All of this online marketing gimmickry that they do is just trying to get somebody to have a real human interaction because relationships are really where it's at and so I think that's a really good and accurate observation of what's going on there.

«We don't have a lot of gimmickry.

I think O'Riley would like that reversal of his nightly opening remarks as it applies to what I regard as sales gimmickry disguised as consumer - oriented «We wan na make less so that you can save more!»