Sentences with phrase «first as a gimmick»

Derided at first as a gimmick, the dramatic tiebreaker has been a shot in the arm for the resurgent league

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But Miner's job, first and foremost, is as an advocate for her city, and if that means calling out the governor for «budget gimmicks» that could increase the long - term fiscal pressure on Syracuse, then so be it.

The agreement is a variation of an election - year tax reduction the Republican incumbent governor first put forward last month that Democrats assailed as a gimmick to help Walker's re-election bid.

In fact, the kitchen - blender recipe was added late in the study as a bit of a gimmick — the main work was done first with an industrial blender (pictured).

I was very skeptical at first (as I always am) and thought the whole idea was just a gimmick.

But the premise that carried the first film (and the original Japanese trilogy and mini-series)-- the idea of a media - borne STD (or drug addiction), transformed here into something carried aloft by the virulence of peer pressure — is instantly discarded along with its deadline gimmick in favour of about two hours of garbage involving killer deer, a somnambulantly - possessed kid (if demonic possession renders your nine - year - old docile as a fawn, that's a trade - off some might be willing to make), and poor Naomi Watts huffing and puffing and delivering awful, repetitive monologues at her catatonic kid.

Uncovering new elements or solving puzzles by «Paperising» the world to place certain sticker types onto the scenery is novel at first, but the gimmick also wears thin as Sticker Star continues to somehow lose its way on a regular basis, not knowing quite what genre it wants to fall into.

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.

«Twilight Princess finds itself in a rare situation where many fans never played how it was intended,» Ben said of the re-release, first given to fans as a cross-platform offering on both GameCube and the gimmick - heavy Nintendo Wii.

Characters are unexcitable and gags extremely gimmick - first — pets who suffer from made - up conditions as «Dog Flu» or «Snout Fever.»

At first glance, the whole enterprise could come across as a gigantic gimmick, but in reality it's a heartstring - pulling masterpiece that reaffirms what cinema can do, and expertly explores what it is to be alive in 21st century middle America.

When: April 8th Why: Despite generating plenty of positive buzz at SXSW and Fantastic Fest, «Hardcore Henry» sounds like the kind of gimmick - driven concept — in this case, an entirely first - person action movie — that would work better as a short film.

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.

Years ago, when I first heard about these things, I dismissed them as a silly gimmick.

To make it seem more familiar, Dodge allows you to shift manually from first through sixth gear, but it's sort of a gimmick, as the CVT's long suit is that it's always, theoretically at least, in the most efficient gear.

At first it was a mode that was entirely uninteresting to me and I filed it away in my mind as a gimmick before I ever even played it.

Walking through walls as a ghost, reading people's thoughts and turning on a television poltergeist style is amusing at first, but every gameplay mechanic turns into a gimmick since each of Ronan's abilities are restricted in some way.

At the time, the industry was saturated with first person shooters, so it may come as no surprise that this flew under the radar for many consumers; however those who gave it a shot found a surprisingly fast - paced, albeit criminally short campaign with an interest gimmick that encouraged players to express their creativity in how they killed enemies.

People don't enjoy buying games consoles for their own sake, they're just there as a means to play the games It's best if Nintendo realised this and just made their games just as good games first and foremost and the console «gimmicks» thrown in where appropriate to the series and game design.

The first level we tackled used air flow as its gimmick.

At the Saatchi Gallery, a somewhat gimmick - ridden exhibition, declaiming itself as the first exploration of the history of the selfie, attempts to trace the trajectory from painted self - portraits to selfies, from Frida Kahlo to «selfish» Kim Kardashian, from Egon Schiele to Barack Obama.

In the past, Nintendo has positioned its consoles as complementary machines that rely on first - party games and the occasional gimmick.

But while HTC made the 2016 Pixels, it seems as though LG is making the 2017 models, which is odd, considering HTC first introduced the squeezing gimmick.