Sentences with phrase «few gimmick»

A few gimmick stages are thrown in between the more standard world.

According to Chairman Brady, the bill will cost $ 1.5 trillion; however, the bill includes a few gimmicks that could significantly worsen the «true cost» of the package.

After all, the 2015 fan survey revealed that fans would like to see a more competitive F1 with fewer gimmicks — and that's essentially what Ross has said he'd like to achieve.

The watchdog group Citizens Budget Commission says the spending plan contains far fewer gimmicks and one shot revenue raisers than in the past.

As you can imagine Weapons of Fate is designed as a cover shooter that introduces a few gimmicks to spice up the gameplay.

They are all going down the same road; make it more accessible, add a few gimmicks, strip out what you can so it can be sold as dlc and poof!

Zombi U felt like a bland zombie survival game with a few gimmicks and New Super Mario Bros U failed to distinguish itself as anything particularly new.

After playing the first ten levels, I can tell you that it feels like a return to the quality gameplay that the first few installments offered, fun and time - consuming, and straight - forward to play with fewer gimmicks than the later episodes.

Not exact matches

The gimmicks are also few and far between, with a couple of them actually coming in handy.

She should certainly not become one sided, expecting everything from a gimmick, but she must not want to do everything with the same energy either; she must have the courage to concentrate her finite powers on a few points, even though this will mean giving up other important things.

Perhaps it will be something wise and gentle; too frequently it is a commercial gimmick; in a few unhappy cases, it is vicious nonsense.

Let me deal with the Government's record, not because we want to oppose for the sake of opposition — indeed we have supported several government measures to tackle low skilled immigration and remove foreign criminals — but because the last few weeks of vanman style gimmicks have both left a nasty taste in the mouth and have suggested that the government have got the wrong end of the stick.

We don't need another economic - development gimmick that rewards a select few.

Instead, Cuomo peddles his «START - UP NY» gimmick, which only provides a select few tax breaks to a select few businesses for a select period of time.»

That said, smoothies are one of the few «gimmicks» that can make doing what's actually required for weight loss significantly easier and more feasible.

Smoothies are one of the exceedingly few «gimmicks» I actually endorse because they can actually work well as part of an easy - as - possible straightforward fitness strategy (that's the whole point of this blog).

Invest just a few minutes now to discover this simple, PROVEN trick to reboot your mental function and improve your mood WITHOUT gimmicks or complicated brain exercises ever again!

Thus we can see how few shops boost their sales by using marketing gimmicks especially on festival days.

Also, it uses the gimmick of restricting your options because they've scientifically proven that you'll settle for something when given fewer choices.

as a owner of a Wii u i find it very disappointing system, the game pad is a very mixed bag i mean it could work really well like the off screen game play works great but for the fact that you never really need to play off screen for any game and in fact i think the game loses a certain enjoyment level like NSMBU it mean it works but you lose some of those great looks the game has and i find colors to be washed out, next with the game bad is that they use it as a gimmick in quite a few games (zombu) and i found that over a long game play with having to look up and then down every few seconds to every minute in about 1 - 3 hours i had a huge head ache which sucked, next the biggest issue with the system is that 32 GB console are you kidding me 32 GB only?

Aside from the outrageous stunts and a few visual gags done just to feed into their unnecessary 3D gimmick, nothing new was introduced.

There have been quite a few that are enjoyable — and I think that SEGA could quite easily create a modern Sonic game, but keep the character to his routes; remove all the gimmicks and game - breaking mechanics.

Once on the ground, Burnett's plight — obviously based on real - life Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's 1995 ordeal (behind enemy lines, natch)-- consists mostly of a lot of fleeing, gimmick shots, and a few awkward radio conversations with crusty Admiral Leslie Reigart (an embarrassed and stammering Hackman, career firsts for him as far as I can tell) who gains or loses a star on his collar every other scene.

Patchett's gimmick: All the girls resemble popular actresses — or they do after a few trips to a plastic surgeon.

It will feature an unlikely love story with a beautiful and constant woman (sort of a stultifying «beauty and king gimp» conceit), a few half - hearted attempts at portraying the world from the «special» protagonist's literal perspective (by using a jittery handheld camera or some similarly unenlightening gimmick), and end on a high note tinged with the bittersweet for that vital splash of lingering «importance.»

Death Race adds a few interesting kinks to its central gimmick, which keeps the endless demolition derbies from becoming repetitive.

Luckily, Black Christmas has the gimmick of being one of very few Christmas horrors, so the interweaving of the odd carol and holiday wreath ensure that it's bearable.

It appears I'm running out of levels once again, so this week we take a look at the last few codes I have as of the moment, complete with Boss Battles, Gimmicks, and Garbage Rocks (last one may not apply to most given levels).

If I was working on Mario Party, I would make a few enjoyable party board modes and have them actually be enjoyable unlike the car gimmick.

Now that a few years have passed by, Mario Kart 8's gravity - bending gimmick isn't exactly the most amazing feature — though even without it, these really are some of the best tracks in any colorful kart racer, that goes for both the all - new tracks and the inspired recreations.

There are also a few too many inspirational speeches and motivational gimmicks incorporated into this David vs. Goliath tale, when more segments involving the young players might have served the narrative better.

Many have tried, but few have succeeded in delivering the goods in a way that ties in to the main themes of the story, and Ozon's method definitely feels like far more than a gimmick.

Director Renny Harlin («Die Hard 2») even adds a few laughable 3D gimmicks with bad «300» - esque graphics serving as the backdrop.

It's another bad gimmick movie for star Nicolas Cage, who appears to be carving out a unique niche as an actor to star in some of the most laughable high - concept thrillers of the last few years.

Unlike Sean Baker, who found great success in his 2015 street drama Tangerine, interestingly among the first few feature films to dabble in Apple, Soderbergh's implementation tends to draw attention to style and like the worst of found - footage (which this film mercifully isn't), ends up more as a gimmick than the product of creative budgeting.

So you start thinking not of that gimmick — our bubble kids got a few more points and all we had to do was destroy our arts and sports programs.

We need a state education system that caters for all students, not gimmicks where the rich have decent schools and throw a few crumbs to the plebs.

Turn on the television and wait a few minutes for a commercial to come on, and you will certainly see a gimmick.

The only difference between the base LS and the top of the line models is basically leather and a few extra gimmicks such as heads - up display.

It's also a permanent 4x2 but a few mechanical and electronical gimmicks allow it to leave the beaten path every now and then, but nothing close to what you'd call off - roading.

«Meanwhile, self - publishing via Amazon is sinking into a quagmire of shrinking margins and gimmicks that funnel cheap content into Amazon's maw while benefiting even fewer writers than before.»

However, IIT maintain their decision to dole out iPads as a few other schools have already started out with is not a marketing strategy or a gimmick to make their school become a favorite with students.

However, IIT maintain their decision to dole out iPad's as a few other schools have already started out with is not a marketing strategy or a gimmick to make their school become a favourite with students.

I believe that if you give a writer a marketing gimmick, she'll sell a few books today.

It's best to think of the Fire Phone as a smaller version of a Kindle Fire tablet, but with a few extra gimmicks and features thrown in along with a free year of Amazon Prime.

7.1 virtual surround (in this case the DTS Headphone X kind) sound is one of those intriguing gimmicks because it has some great potential, but comes with a few key tradeoffs.

Wait until you don't have to make such drastic concessions for the sake of what many people few as little more than a gimmick.

My few guesses are simple Xbox one launch especially the way the wording was so bad that people just didn't want anything to do with it DRM NO USED GAMES KINECT 2 NSA WATCH And saying stuff like if you don't want to be online every 24 hours we have Xbox360 for you Maybe I am missing the point but wii was just once in a life time gimmick.

I don't usually like Josh's sassy attitude, and to be concrete, this idea doesn't expand too much from the previous entry, it's just a balloon gimmick and a few more customizations for clothing and public decorations....

It's a gimmick you can show off for a few minutes to your family and friends, experience how cool it is and then pull the plug.