Sentences with phrase «gimmick at»

And though it feels like a gimmick at first, that extra, angled real estate can be surprisingly cool.

«Cryptocurrency will be almost a gimmick at first,» Benjamin Jessel, managing principal at Capco, told Fortune.

«There's not that much content out there for VR, so it's more of a gimmick at this point,» Technalysis» O'Donnell told TechNewsWorld.

It's just a gimmick at that size.

A custom tanning bed rigged to sear stars and stripes onto patriotic hides may seem like a gimmick at first, but the complex wiring and military - grade surveillance cameras set to monitor visitors recall sober issues of border crossing and citizenship.

Seemingly a gimmick at first, this wholly necessary activity is offered up for viewers: ride a little train to view the photos alongside the track.

And puns aside it was «refreshing» to do something different with the mote which didn't seem like a gimmick at the time.

@Robert: «And puns aside it was «refreshing» to do something different with the mote which didn't seem like a gimmick at the time.»

Put simply, Odyssey's Capture mechanic never feels like a gimmick at all.

Motif Investing, while it felt a little like a gimmick at first, does seem to offer an intriguing new way to basically create your own ETFs, without the associated fees.

If there's a gimmick at all in the A5's design, it's in the running lights, a series of LEDs under each headlamp that looks too much like eyeliner applied with a heavy hand.

And a console can't rely on gimmick at all.

There is a strange and ultimately unsuccessful gimmick at the heart of American Animals that I wished had worked.

If the game's gimmick ends up doing this much damage to the design, I'd rather it not have a gimmick at all.

«Cryptocurrency will be almost a gimmick at first,» Benjamin Jessel, managing principal at Capco, told Fortune.

Ordering on brown paper bags is a gimmick at the sandwich chain — just one good idea from Jeff Sinelli

At a time when Internet news portals are exploiting all the video and graphic - driven gimmicks at their disposal, a startup called The Athletic is a local, subscription - based news service that - wait for it - focuses on quality reporting.

If AW doesn't see this, his marquee signings of the last two years are piecemeal at best, and marketing gimmicks at worst.

It's not a loud virtual reality game in the sense that it throws all matter of gimmicks at you from the start — or at any point for that matter.

Avoid gimmicks at all costs.

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But as the parent of two children, Shaich is especially ardent as he vows to ensure the kids» menu at Panera is stocked with «clean» ingredients and devoid of marketing gimmicks.

Sharif Sakr, senior European editor at Engadget, describes curved TV as a «gimmick» and says one of the exciting items at Las Vegas's consumer electronics show is the 4K display.

The gimmick where every «business lesson» goes back to something she experienced as a child did get slightly irritating at times, but overall, this is a great read.

Hope this doesn't put off new Tesla owners who see this charging at the superchargers, the guy must have more money than sense to spend that kind of cash on one car just so that he can say he has an electric estate car for his dog, nice gimmick but he is not going to be offsetting the cost of fuel anytime soon.

Stick with ETFs that have high daily trading (yes, they can fold like underperforming mutual funds), don't buy into gimmicks or sectors unless you really know what you are doing, and as the article mentions watch the spreads and the premiums; these things don't always trade at NAV.

Starting with the Senate bill as a base, we've come up with an illustrative plan that would reduce the bill's gimmicks by at least one - third, finance the removal of the corporate AMT, and reduce the dynamic cost of the legislation to close to $ 0.

Youth leaders trying the latest gimmicks may seem cool at the time, but fails to keep the youth.

His reluctance to appear in Infinity War was a fun gimmick, but at the end of the day, I was bummed the green guy only had one little action moment.

There are no gimmicks or marketing techniques, at least not among the more successful groups.

Gimmick or not, this final aside reminds us that Smith, ten years on from her ordeal at Nichols» hands, is of course more than just a character in a film, and is now a married, drug - free Christian.

If a young woman in Scotland hadn't dreamed up the «pre-tribulation fly - away» in 1830; if a British clergyman hadn't hijacked her dream and sneakily planted it around the world in the 1800s; if a crooked, jailed - for - forgery lawyer with no theological background hadn't come out with a reference Bible in 1909 with the same fly - away escapism in marginal notes; and if modern - day rapture robber barons and tribulational tycoons hadn't found numerous ways (and gimmicks like four «blood moons») to widely mass - market the same delicious delusion for the masses while breaking sales records, no one could now be into the moonshine, looking up at the moon and saying «Moon, you mush be drunk becaush I shee four of you!»

As conceived, there's just not enough going on once you cease being amazed at the xxxtremity of the gimmick.

I never saw this gimmick getting above the mid card at best.

It's great news because Alfa has a massive history in motorsport, so to see the brand officially back at the top level just feels right, even if it's currently little more than a marketing gimmick.

Their gimmicks are pretty similar at this point.

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

Since when do they put a big gimmick match like the royal rumble at a house show?

At NAB Show — a convention for the media, entertainment and technology industry — Wanger said Fox plans to go in a different direction for Thursday Night Football and steer away from «gimmicks» to get fans to watch.

The current format is an unnecessary gimmick to initiate rivalry matches in the opening round at the expense of a fair system.

Speaking to reporters at the gay pride parade in Manhattan, Paterson said the two - way deal the Assembly and Senate plan to pass tomorrow «theoretically» will avoid a government shutdown, but also called it a «gimmick to prevent me from using emergency appropriations.»

In comments that will be seen as a swipe at Boris Johnson, she argued now was not the time for «showy gimmicks and so forth».

At a public health forum in Downtown Brooklyn, he railed against the current administration for using «one shots and fiscal gimmicks» to balance its budgets, and slammed Bloomberg's large soda ban as nothing more than «big PR.»

The Presidential Candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo - Addo has taken a swipe at President John Mahama for describing NPP's pledge to extend the service period for army recruits from 25 years to 30 years as a political gimmick.

«We did not take the decision to join HIPC as a political trick or gimmick, but as an opportunity to take a breather to pursue medium to long term targets,» the President said, when heads of United Nation (UN) agencies in Ghana called on him at the State House to express support to the new administration and also outline their programmes for the year.

He described it as political gimmick and implored the electorate to ignore Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo and the NPP at the polls.

«Why not, instead of looking at gimmicks to get under the tax cap, why not cut taxes?»

So the election gimmick, if not evaporated, has dimmed at -LSB-...]

For all the gimmicks about new mixes of red and blue, corporate interests are becoming even more powerful in the UK, at the expense of everyone else, the middle and those left at the bottom.

«The creation and perpetuation of more tax gimmicks, such as the temporary Thruway toll rebate, won't help the state's competitiveness at all.»

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox blasted Cuomo's tour as a gimmick intended to further his political agenda «at the grave expense of New York's economy.»