Sentences with phrase «as a gimmick»

Unfortunately, it's all too brief and basically used as a gimmick.

In what some will consider a great idea and others dismiss as a gimmick, they have send a survey to the fans asking them to rate his performance this season.

Despite its growing reputation in training, interactive video is still seen as a gimmick by some.

A Quiet Place similarly succeeds in providing information and character development though strictly visual means, without making its lack of dialogue come off as a gimmick in the process.

What started as a gimmick could become a tragic reality in coming decades, as sea level rise reduces the entire country to a virtual state.

Well, by definition any sort of innovation can be labeled as a gimmick.

So as long as the gimmick works, the companies will keep offering them.

I don't think motion control as a gimmick but as something that gets better every generation it passes.

You could take one look at this game as a newcomer and write the whole thing off as a gimmick.

Before you go ahead and completely dismiss fast charging as a gimmick though, do note that it has its own advantages.

Because of its faults, many have described the projector as a gimmick.

Often times, it's used as a gimmick, lacking skill and talent to match the transformation.

It's a really neat feature but it's too soon to tell if this is really compelling to users or may be seen as a gimmick.

«Creatine should not be viewed as another gimmick supplement its injection is a means of providing immediate, significant improvement».

I ding the Wii as a gimmick because so little really used the motion control scheme effectively, and top flight games often kind of dropped it or relegated it to the odd waggle or a side role.

There is a psychological element in this film that works more as a gimmick than it does as an extra layer of drama or suspense, the savvy viewer should be able to spot this obvious secret pretty early on.

While the perspective is unique and positioned behind Toki / Towa in battles, that's about as far as the gimmick goes.

Many of you might look at it now as a gimmick but the funny thing about life is many things that happen in life are Gimmicks, Its the experience you had with yourself and others that will matter!

The center's E.J. McMahon said it's essentially the resurrection of an earlier tax rebate program, under the STAR property tax relief plan that was killed back in 2009, which was denounced at the time by some lawmakers as a gimmick.

But the fingerprint scanners on the flagship smartphones are now being considered as gimmicks by market experts.

touchpad is good for bringing up menu's / sub menu's For anything else it would be a gimmick and I'm glad it's not being used as a gimmick like most nintendo controllers...

Usually people toss around the word «gimmick» to dismiss a concept, but I don't even think SmartGlass qualifies as a gimmick.

This comes across as a gimmick (we can see many people dropping this once the novelty wears off), but it shows what's possible now that Apple has face tracking at its disposal.

From a branding point of view, I'm not sure TAMO is the right name, could be looked at as a gimmick.

While Kinect was viewed by many in the «hardcore» segment of the gaming population as a gimmick, Microsoft trudged on and tried to improve the sensor in the Xbox One.

The point of the feature, which I initially had pegged as a gimmick, is to eliminate the need to use two hands to manipulate the larger device.

Smoked beers have been brewed for years, but these amped up versions now serve as gimmicks, catered toward the bacon - loving, beard - growing, flannel - wearing stereotypes of the craft beer world.

Derided at first as a gimmick, the dramatic tiebreaker has been a shot in the arm for the resurgent league

Dismissing the misplaced reliance on fuzzy nutritional data — as well as gimmicks and food fads — Dina highlights often ignored factors that significantly influence how our children view healthy eating.»

The chancellor dismissed the Labour freeze as a gimmick that would force prices up by deterring companies from investing.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox blasted Cuomo's tour as a gimmick intended to further his political agenda «at the grave expense of New York's economy.»

The agreement is a variation of an election - year tax reduction the Republican incumbent governor first put forward last month that Democrats assailed as a gimmick to help Walker's re-election bid.

He also dismissed Okorocha's recent move to compensate genuine aggrieved victims of the demolition exercise as a gimmick, an afterthought and a cover - up.

He says many regions of the state remain mired in economic depression, and he mocks Cuomo's plan to offer some new businesses ten tax - free years in New York as a gimmick.

I've been a Dating Expert for long enough to know there are too many senior online dating success stories to dismiss online dating as a gimmick.

This leads us to believe that the notifications are used strictly as a gimmick to get people to see who's checking out your profile, who winking at you and who added you as a friend.

It could have stood solely as a gimmick, but it really says something about the male gaze.

I sincerely don't see the gamepad as a gimmick.

The film does so by removing the typical cheesy gimmicks as it

Strange Creatures basically uses its title as a gimmick, covering up for an otherwise ridiculous effort about carnival freaks and fortune tellers.

Where the movie takes chances (Sissy Spacek as a therapist who only treats Gray in odd locations, like a bowling alley), they come off as gimmicks rather than entertainment.

Quite a lot of them you can ignore: as cool as the gimmicks on the F - Sport trim are (how can you not like the LFA - inspired digital instrument bezel?)

Nice lighting trick (although not sure if I prefer the multi-colour ambient lighting in the MINI as a gimmick)

At the same time, large wheels and LED daytime running lights may be seen by long - time fans as gimmicks.

The iPhone has strong sales in Japan, so Apple probably sees the release of a Disney themed phone as a gimmick and not a threat by any means.

When Nintendo debuted the Wii U's touchscreen GamePad in 2012, I laughed, brushing it off as a gimmick guaranteed to fail.

I still see kinect as a gimmick.

At first it was a mode that was entirely uninteresting to me and I filed it away in my mind as a gimmick before I ever even played it.