Sentences with phrase «as gimmicks rather»

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.

Not exact matches

Rather than seeing Jesus as a God, many view Him as a promotional gimmick — a sales opportunity.

The correct decision is, as I have been continually advocating for years, to fire the current administrator, develop a full efficiency and profitability turnaround plan with a strict timeline, and, if only if those concerted efforts fail, then sell the hospital to a carefully selected and responsible buyer directly rather than through the budgetary gimmick of an LDC.

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.

Rather like 2011's Your Highness, the initial gimmick proudly, even boastfully, revealed in The Little Hours is based on the notion that medieval characters can be just as puerile as their contemporary counterparts.

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,

A lot of people responded rather negatively to my last post questioning whether Nokia had a tablet strategy and decrying the entire idea of the tablet market as little more than a gimmick — Too large to be a phone and marginally more functional but smaller than an even a netbook and significantly less productive.

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.

She blames its snobbish attitude toward traditional craft media such as pottery and its mistaken conviction that his dressing up is a gimmick rather than a compulsion rooted in childhood trauma.

Perhaps this may be a way for the company to keep improving Edge Sense over time in order for more users to see it as a necessity rather than just a gimmick.