Sentences with phrase «cheap attempt»

The shark attacks no longer have an element of suspense to them, now replaced by cheap attempts at shock and gore.

Previously categorized as cheap attempts to make money, games based on properties have come a long way over the past decade.

This honestly feels like a very cheap attempt at using sex to sell a game, and a very poor one at that.

It did not have the feeling of a hard - fought, intensely argued list — and the exhibition, perhaps driven to draw glances from the metropolitan media, resorted to what seemed like cheap attempts to revive the shocks of yesteryear.

In my own pastoral counseling experiences, I have found that most divorcing couples are realistic enough not to want superficial, cheap attempts on the counselor's part to heal their wounds lightly by telling them, in effect, that their divorce and their prior marriage are unimportant.

A Conservative spokesperson said: «This is a pretty cheap attempt by a Labour - linked union to distract from the overwhelming evidence of antisemitism in Labour that has emerged in recent weeks.

seems like everyone is at it including those meant to be in your corner — it's mr anonymous» cheap attempt at winding up disgruntled fans with more bull ****.

It's all too easy to label any sequel as a cheap attempt to capitalise on the success of its prequel, but in this case it is hard to think otherwise.

The mention of Mills» career as an erotic photographer, as well as her teaching pole dancing classes on the side, is a cheap attempt to inject some sex into what is otherwise a very unsexy story.

In a cheap attempt at instant credibility, the countless names are pushed like labels, and combined with Miele's impossible, scatterbrained ambitions, it all tramples on Coco Chanel's mantra of ditching an item before leaving the house.

-- but $ upercapitalist seems more doomed than most, as an on - the - cheap attempt to update the moral drama of Wall Street for the current economic climate.

Is this a fun, family friendly movie about Dracula and his friends or is it just another cheap attempt to sell Happy Meal Toys?

«Like most horror spinoff sequels, Annabelle: Creation is a silly, cheap attempt to cash in on a gimmick» — Glenn Sumi

What Nolan has achieved with Batman Begins and now The Dark Knight seems remarkable when looking back over the comic book adaptation genre that has spawned so many failures and cheap attempts to capitalise on the computer - assisted filmmaking revolution.

And consider that tax rebate gimmick for what it is: another cheap attempt at stopping you from achieving financial independence.

In a game where everything is supposedly fraught with deeper meaning, this feels like a cheap attempt to extend gameplay.

I didn't just whip that up in a cheap attempt to get your attention.

People gave it a real thumbs down because it was a cheap attempt to imitate Sensation.

His smug pout was given pride of place at the center of the booth, bracketed by portraits of Snoop Dogg (Snoop Dogg, 2002) and a young Mexican migrant worker (Cheneke Nanaoxi, Mexican Migrant Worker, 2002)-- a cheap attempt at ironic political commentary.

Cheap attempt at making money.