Sentences with phrase «cheap ploy»
The phrase "cheap ploy" means a strategy or action that is seen as dishonest, deceitful, or done in a manipulative way to achieve an outcome without much effort or cost. Full definition
However, this purposeful emptiness does mean that all of these nasty traits end up feeling like cheap ploys to make everyone a red herring.
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I don't think its as cheap ploy as the rest of the films, only because Hans Zimmer has a credit in all three Transformers films.
Nothing is revealed, except for Lelio's attachment to such cheap ploys to build «suspense.»
I don't believe this is just some cheap ploy by the studio to cash in like they typically do with YA books.
I hadn't anticipated that this game would be episodic, because the originally advertised title on Steam was «Albino Lullaby,» so that decision feels kind of like a cheap ploy.
It seems like a cheap ploy, and it is, but they make it pay off enough that it's not such a glaring issue.
It is, quite simply, a decision made by a character in keeping with what one would expect her to do, and not a cheap ploy for drama.
Its a cheap ploy but it does work.
But is World of Demons just a cheap ploy for the mobile market using a piece of the Okami pie?
Annoyingly, all three chapters tend to throw groups of enemies at the player, which can feel like a cheap ploy to raise the difficulty and results in a somewhat repetitive strategy of pull, isolate, and conquer.
While a large part of me wants everyone to recognize what a cheap ploy this is, a bit of me is hoping it will succeed.