Sentences with phrase «dismissed as a novelty»

When Amazon introduced the Echo three years ago it was initially dismissed as a novelty.

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Augmented reality has for too long been dismissed as a gimmick in the marketing industry, a novelty worth trialling but not something to include as part...

Novelty, then, can not be dismissed as incidental or secondary to order.20

His primary opponent, Rep. Kendrick Meek, has dismissed Greene's candidacy as a novelty act and accused him of profiting off the many foreclosures dragging down Florida's housing market.

Apart from failing the novelty test, the mission was accomplished using knock - off equipment, and Yutu was dismissed as a tragic «me too» exercise by a country lagging decades behind the world's leading space powers.

While it's easy for those focused on the urban agenda to dismiss suburban reform as a distraction or a novelty, it may be more useful to think of high - performing communities as terrific laboratories for bold solutions and as the place where high - functioning systems working in advantageous circumstances may have much to teach about how to help schools go from good to great.

I wouldn't kill the investment over this, but I don't think the risk / uncertainty can be glossed over — electric cars shouldn't be dismissed as an «affluent urban novelty».

This is its new wonderful charter: as an alternative to the rushed ephemeral hysteria of novelty, of constantly raised and constantly dismissed apparent conclusions, the sheer persistence of these artists, each in his or her concentration, is now the beacon of the creative present.

And in the early «60s, even Greenberg wasn't yet dismissing pop and its friends and relations as «novelty art.»

Alloway was the first critic who wrote about Pop art (which Greenberg had dismissed as «novelty art») in any depth, even coining its name.

It's the reason we have a fancy aluminum chassis on a mainstream Android phone in the HTC One, it's the reason novelty devices like the Yotaphone are coming to market, and it's the reason new platforms like Jolla pack enough innovation to avoid being instantly dismissed as DOA.

Some may dismiss weird occurrences as a novelty,» says Grodesky.