Sentences with phrase «as gimmicks by»

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

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

Described as a gimmick by some, there are plenty of great use cases for a Kindle display on a phone and we would love to see this on more devices.

Without voice capabilities however, we're afraid Bixby will be treated as a gimmick by many otherwise excited early GS8 adopters.

Not exact matches

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.

I liked her stories about her mother and her family, as she clearly appreciated them very much, but the folksy gimmick of having a business lesson followed by a memory started to grate after the tenth lesson or so.

Starting with the Senate bill as a base, we've come up with an illustrative plan that would reduce the bill's gimmicks by at least one - third, finance the removal of the corporate AMT, and reduce the dynamic cost of the legislation to close to $ 0.

The recent tax cut gimmick passed by Congress is being exposed as a giant fraud benefiting corporations and the wealthy.

Kwanzaa, most readers will recall, is a recently contrived African American seven - day celebration that runs from December 26 through January 1, and has been much criticized by blacks and others as a commercial gimmick designed to demonstrate that blacks can be as consumerist as anybody else.

Whether Bobby Riggs was so far ahead of everybody else in his recognition of a man - woman gimmick as a potential bonanza or whether he stumbled onto it by dumb luck is moot, but evidence supports the latter view.

Now, not sure if this source simply jumped on my bandwagon from last week where I considered a move for the Portsmouth veteran as potentially a good bit of business or whether its some gimmick to promote their own site, either way I still stand by the idea being a sound short term solution.

STRANEK added that «An Allegation by no mean a person other than a Minister of State can not be seen as a mere political gimmick and as such must be investigated and perpetrators prosecuted and if proven guilty jailed.»

The people believing in the said false representation parted with ownership of their properties (goats, sheep, Cow, monies etc) An Allegation by no mean a person other than a Minister of State can not be seen as a mere political gimmick and as such must be investigated and perpetrators prosecuted and if proven guilty jailed.

Calling «You Cut» a gimmick is an opinion, which is by definition neither true nor false — it's just an opinion, and I'm entitled to mine just as much as you are to yours.

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

The STAR plan was denounced at the time by some lawmakers as a gimmick.

Unfortunately as you look at these initiatives and the victories we have had we have been stymied by a Supervisor who would rather stay with the status quo — a Supervisor that would rather implement budget gimmicks — a supervisor and a Town Board majority that is looking at only self - interest and not the interest of the people they serve.

All these fly by night gimmick diets annoy the hell out of me such as slimfast, atkins, weight watchers and so unecessary.

Yoghurt can be a nutritious food, though its potential is often exploited by companies who like to use yoghurt's healthy halo as a marketing gimmick.

This is Blu - ray 3D done right, as it dismisses the «IN YOUR FACE» 3D gimmicks of the past and instead enhances the film by adding a layer of depth throughout.

The controls remind us why motion gaming has been considered by many as a «gimmick» and the design is fairly unremarkable.

What I did predict was that it's gimmick appeal would doom the system as most would only by the gimmicky games.

But the premise that carried the first film (and the original Japanese trilogy and mini-series)-- the idea of a media - borne STD (or drug addiction), transformed here into something carried aloft by the virulence of peer pressure — is instantly discarded along with its deadline gimmick in favour of about two hours of garbage involving killer deer, a somnambulantly - possessed kid (if demonic possession renders your nine - year - old docile as a fawn, that's a trade - off some might be willing to make), and poor Naomi Watts huffing and puffing and delivering awful, repetitive monologues at her catatonic kid.

Uncovering new elements or solving puzzles by «Paperising» the world to place certain sticker types onto the scenery is novel at first, but the gimmick also wears thin as Sticker Star continues to somehow lose its way on a regular basis, not knowing quite what genre it wants to fall into.

The only way the movie really emulates its contemporaries is by being offered in 3D, a format it exploits with the occasional in - your - face gimmick as well as the dimensional setting of the Florida climax.

by Walter Chaw Billed as being filmed in a single shot (though the skeptical — and those taken in by the «unedited» long takes of Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men — should wonder why an editor is credited), Gustavo Hernández's zero - budget conceptual experiment The Silent House (La casa mudi) has found a way not only to suggest a gimmick successfully carried through, but also to weave that gimmick into a richer thematic tapestry.

Moland uses title cards to mark the «order of disappearance» of characters as they're killed, a gimmick that sort of works by creating comic interludes as a counterpoint to the violence.

Also, in recent weeks, we had Chronicle, an ambitious spin on the Superman mythology with a script by Max «Son Of John» Landis, though that was an example of a film that would have worked just as well without the use of the found footage gimmick.

Instead of thinking through what it means to divide a fraction by a fraction, students, especially low - income students, are often immediately taught gimmicks, such as «Yours is not to reason why, just invert and multiply» or «Keep, change, and flip.»

Instead, the state allowed Pittsburgh to employ a fiscal gimmick by pledging future parking meter revenues to the pension system but counting the value of those future revenues as if they were current assets in the system.

The latter strikes us as more of a gimmick than anything else, but you'll certainly impress your passengers when you turn up the volume by moving your fingers through the air.

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

Enter two new gimmicks available as an option for the new Golf R: a titanium exhaust setup signed by Akrapovič and a performance brake system.

But no online bookseller gives away the entire book, with the exception of Amazon as a sales gimmick and even then, they only do it for a limited amount of time and they charge the author rather than the reader by demanding exclusivity for 90 days,

Hopefully Barnes and Noble could follow our lead by taking their own great app store, that took a long time to build up and use it as a marketing gimmick to really sell their next e-reader in vast quantities.

There will always be a market for them (as those Newsarama polls about digital comics that always make me want to scream at my monitor when I read the comments by the people who will NEVER EVER EVER BUY A DIGITAL COMIC prove), regardless of these gimmicks.

[Two fee issues to monitor: i) Capitalizing (& amortizing) IPO expenses as a balance sheet «asset» is a nice gimmick for investment managers to collect additional fees — however, it's far less prevalent these days & actually may not even be permissible any longer, and ii) if the company invests in JVs which are also managed by the investment manager (or a related party), shareholders should ensure two layers of fees aren't imposed].

Some people call me a «dog whisperer», but I don't like using that term because it is used by many companies as a marketing gimmick.

I'm sure the Switch will be a reasonable success when all is said and done, largely because they've finally found a way to make their formula of cheaping out on hardware to focus on a gimmick appeal to core gamers, which is by making it a gimmick that is actually pretty handy and neat, as well as providing a solid lineup of games.

Why on Earth SEGA commissioned a game based on 2007's underperforming The Golden Compass (currently rocking a 43 % approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an opening weekend described by New Line Cinema as «a little disappointing») is a mystery to me, but I imagine it's probably down to being a family orientated movie with an insane amount of fantasy gimmicks that can be utilised for a video game.

The simplistic platforming gameplay itself lacks variety as well, and the game's encouragement to spend more time in a single level often backfires by showing how stale the area's gimmicks can get within a few minutes.

On the one hand, it's technically a 3D game made by the same people behind Super Mario Galaxy, and hence has all of the tricks and game mechanics found in those titles, while on the other it's about as close to classic 2D Mario as you can get, with one hundred percent of the levels revolving around platforming rather than cheap gimmicks.

On top of that, Smart As is also held back by having to take use of the Vita's gimmicks and a lack of nearly any depth.

There's a better game inside the Shaq Fu concept trying to break free (some of the characters are mildly intriguing in a»90s way and the game's Fury Meter mechanic that increases attack damage dealt by the player prior to a cool down period has potential as a unique gimmick), but in an era where licensed titles were intended to be quick cash - in titles, it just wasn't meant to be.

Level design in both single player and coop is generally superb, albeit not without certain gimmicks such as a straightforward (i.e. no stealth) urban assault level set in Iraq in 1991, a well - executed chase sequence and an infiltration which harks back to previous chapters of the franchise by ending the mission when you are spotted.

I think Nintendo realizes that they are by and large really, really, really bad at both conceiving stories as well as telling them, so Mario rarely gets anything too taxing other than «Peach got kidnapped as a result of this game's gimmick; here's 70 some - odd levels of fun to go through before you get her back.»

That basically means no scoring multipliers or other score - boosting gimmicks — Score Rush Extended is a test of your skills where it's all about amassing the largest point total by destroying everything as quickly as possible.

Whether it be playing as multiple characters in the earlier games, the sword in Sonic and the Black Knight or the werehog in Unleashed, they were all generally decent games let down quite a bit by a badly shoved in gimmick nobody really wanted.

The run, jump and shoot simplicity of Mega Man is left intact, complimented by some great level designs that build on their gimmicks as you progress through them.

Whether one considers these bold innovations or gimmicks by which to impress the art market, they had nothing to do with abstraction as such, with that ruthless subtractive process of whittling images down to their roots which so obsessed critics like Greenberg that they put it at the center of their story of what modern art even is.