Sentences with phrase «by gimmicky»

Its 5.7 - inch screen is flanked by extremely large bezels, and topped off by a gimmicky second screen that makes the phone inordinately large for its display dimensions.

You can wonder, too, if the art of painting has forever been consigned to the margins — the examples at the Biennial being few, far between, and marred by gimmicky installation.

Metrico is an ingenious and unique Vita puzzler heavily weighed down by gimmicky controls and technical issues.

By gimmicky, I mean like times when you hit your opponent hard enough that it knocks them from the sky to the ground.

Revival Vintage About - Revival promotes the celebration of the very best of the old and new without being influenced by gimmicky overnight trends.

Don't be put off by the gimmicky focus on people fainting in screenings.

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

Or that I'm the author of yet another round of faddish scheme designed to prey on people who don't have the time, inclination, or critical mass of neurons not to be duped by gimmicky gyps that could never possibly make sense.

is about not being seduced by gimmicky technology.

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Avoid gimmicky designs or fly - by - night brands that rely on obnoxious marketing.

Venerable hymns, reflections of an older piety, were replaced by contemporary songs, many of them forgettable, gimmicky and trivial.

«We're not going to do it by participating in gimmicky programs that don't work.»

There's so much confusion these days about what a healthy diet that promotes fat loss really is... after all, we are bombarded by conflicting messages in the media about what is healthy and what is not, and you have all of these gimmicky diet books about low carb, low fat, high protein, vegetarian, fasting, atkins, south beach, liquid diets, and hundreds more.

It is hard to see a day go by where I don't see something gimmicky or flashy being done by a self - proclaimed guru trainer or «performance» coach.

★ ★ ★ ★ 5 While I do really love this polish I do think it is quite a gimmicky type of polish — by that I just mean..

Amy purports itself to be survival horror, but the only surviving you'll be doing is trying to make sense of the muddled gameplay mess laid before you as you're «scared» by the same gimmicky frights, like bursting gas pipes and falling portraits, over and over again.

Even fueled by Reynolds, whose likability is practically a super power, a new director in David Leitch («John Wick» and «Atomic Blonde»), charismatic new costars like Zazie Beetz («Atlanta») and Julian Dennison («Hunt for the Wilderpeople»), bigger stakes (and more money to execute them), «Deadpool 2,» suffers from the sequelitis that typically threatens gimmicky gambles turned tentpole franchises.

Where the movie works, and does so quite splendidly, is the finale's clever depiction of hologram tech as a shiny new toy; promoted by an American corporation as if it offers a time - saving and world - changing system enabling international business for the 21st century, even though it's clearly and merely another gimmicky exercise in special effects.

Bridget's tribulations as an aging woman forced to adapt to new technology and a workplace overrun by millennials add a relatable contemporary element without feeling gimmicky.

Insecure may not have the weight of star power or a gimmicky plot behind it, but it became HBO's best reviewed new show of 2016 by simply being great.

You have your Bond girls, an evil villain, gadgets, a sultry theme song written and performed by Adele, and intense action sequences without any of it feeling hokey and gimmicky.

As you might expect from the gimmicky premise, however, the film is a largely one - joke affair that begins to wear thin by the midway point.

The sequel, by comparison, is too noisy and gimmicky and lacks the human element which is odd considering that the feline antagonists and canine protagonists are once again battling over the fate of mankind.

Even worse is the sudden drop - off in the main storyline — which has Don exploring the dirty rumors behind the Cody plant one minute, and then completely MIA the next — as well as the random cameos by big name talents like Ethan Hawke, Bruce Willis and Kris Kristofferson, whose presences feel far too gimmicky to be taken seriously.

Though buoyed by fine performances, director Craig Gillespie's gimmicky film can't successfully juggle its disparate tones: part «Raising Arizona» - style white - trash comedy, part tragic downfall.

They never feel gimmicky and it's interesting that the film's structure is somewhat dictated by the limits of the medium (each scene uses nearly an entire film reel).

Related by only one gimmicky cross-referenced scene, this is a pair of goofy political comedies coloured with rude jokes to skewer the gravitas of the gunslinging action genre.

Cameos offered up by the men behind Zack and Miri briefly inject energy and laughs into the film, but given the topic at hand it seems unnecessarily gimmicky.

«A Quiet Place» is an amusing title for what turns out to be a meticulously muscle - clenching exercise in gimmicky horror, the type that imagines a future population terrorized by sight - challenged predators who hunt by human noise.

This doubtlessly registers as the director's best work since 1997's The Game, though the improvement seems more the result of a better script — one not marred by preposterous twists, gimmicky thrills, or postmodern waxing — than new heights of skill.

by Walter Chaw An experiment in perceptual distortion that questions the nature of viewership and the law of observation that states, in part, that the nature of the process of observation necessitates a change in the essential quality of the observed, Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal is a hyper - pretentious film - within - a-film-within-a-film conceit so gimmicky it hardly matters that by the end gimmickry is its point.

Although gimmicky, we were entranced by the pulsing red lights in the speakers.

The new flagship smartphone Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9 + started taking pre-orders today, ahead of its March 14 release: www.samsung.com/us/smartphones/galaxy-s9/ And with it, it seems that Samsung have increased its production of official and perectly fitted accessories for the Samsung Galaxy S9 as well, with a range of accessories that really enhance the phones, as opposed to a lot of the gimmicky accessories that are often launched by phone brands.

Our somewhat unifying manifesto is that, while excited by the possibility of technology, we generally find enhanced ebooks, or whatever, to be disappointing, to be gimmicky, and to generally be too disconnected from proven storytelling methods.»

While many delinquencies have been caused by adjustable rate mortgages for subprime borrowers or with gimmicky features which caused payments to reset to unnaturally high levels, the rise in ten - year Treasury yields is a warning that a broader population of mortgage holders could face higher mortgage rates.

Even people who start out with a well - balanced mix of assets sometimes spoil it by shifting their savings into gimmicky investments or moving from one investment to another in a vain attempt to capitalize on market sectors they hope will surge to outsize gains.

This term is gimmicky, and is only used by breeders who want to lure customers in with buzzwords that make them look credible.

this was the one thing with move that seemed to stand on its own... I don't mind the idea of HD wii sports either, as long as it really is 1:1... that was my only real complaint with the wii when it released... there was motion control, but it was gimmicky and registered «wiggles» into canned animations... not to mention the gamecube visuals... still not sold on Move though... for me to really want one, I want to see what they are doing with shooters... Socom 4 and killzone 3 could be very special for core gamers and motion controls if they are done right... if you can aim on screen in true 1:1 fashion while sitting comfortably at a «normal» gaming distance... it could rearrange how I play first person shooters on a console... developers are saying the Move has input latency of 21ms, which is roughly half of a DS3... and second only to a wired mouse / keyboard... need to see how it works though, as it is not always that simple... just saying that if it does what its supposed to... it could end up being the answer to shooters on a console... as much as I like playing shooters with 2 sticks... I can't argue that I miss the days of a mouse and keyboard (as well as PC being the only platform to get the best shooters on... no longer the case by any means)... but with a first person shooter, there is no wiggle room... pun intended... it has to register every mm of movement on screen... and do it quickly... not sure if it can yet...

I'm paying for a console that comes with an accessory that despite being laughed at and labeled as «gimmicky» or «useless» by many in the community, I am looking forward to using.

So, by utilizing some 3DS hardware features (and not shoving them down our throats to feel «gimmicky») and combining them with the classic platforming action the Kirby franchise is known for, Triple Deluxe provides a huge variety of unique challenges for Kirby to tackle.

Nor did they attempt some gimmicky mechanic to design the game around that would become irreverent by the end of it, like Alien: Isolation (though that mechanic was damn good, they just ran the game a bit too long).

Several issues pointed out by Oscar Dayus of GameSpot include overlapping audio from the split screens, tonal shifts, and gimmicky scenes.

As they tell the main story, they increasingly retreat into tedious instances of someone getting kidnapped, Batman having to outwit 10 armed guards in a stealth sequence, and then the Batmobile having to blow up 20 tanks to secure something or other, and then some closed off instance of some gimmicky frippery usually accompanied by a gratuitous difficulty spike.

The greater significance is a resistance to gimmicky features with the gamepad, which is herein put to use strengthening the appeal of the original release, either by adding to the chaos, or giving players a fresh means of aiding each other.

This is gimmicky marketing pulled off by Ubisoft and Sony to promote the game.

In any event, Saville remains one of a very small number of high quality classically trained figure painters in postmodernist art: an era dominated by ever more gimmicky types of art.

Dismissed by critics as «retinal titillations» and «optical delusions», Op Art and its sculptural counterpart Kinetic Art have long fought the stigma of merely being gimmicky entertainment for the eye.

(This is by far the show's most gimmicky element, but I enjoyed the visual metaphor of idealistic young founders descending to level of reality TV.)

It's easy to write Formula E off as the series of buzzy, gimmicky golf carts that lack the power to go a full race distance and are driven by F1 rejects, but that's also massively lazy.

By offering such an abundance of features, antivirus apps have moved from gimmicky to useful.