Sentences with phrase «gimmick into»

Whether or not it can transcend gimmick into a piece of technology that retro gamers will use long - term, or even substantial enough to consign their original SNES to the attic, is something that will only become evident over the next six months.

The plot of director Mark Palansky and Mike Vukadinovich's screenplay is little more than a murder mystery, and it's one that doesn't even incorporate the central gimmick into the story enough for the concept of a memory - recording device to really matter.

Hardcore turns this gimmick into a feature - length concept, not without precedent.

It's a bit of a shock, not only that he does, but also that he finds ways of evolving the simplistic gimmick into something more.

by Walter Chaw Billed as being filmed in a single shot (though the skeptical — and those taken in by the «unedited» long takes of Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men — should wonder why an editor is credited), Gustavo Hernández's zero - budget conceptual experiment The Silent House (La casa mudi) has found a way not only to suggest a gimmick successfully carried through, but also to weave that gimmick into a richer thematic tapestry.

But when the album flops badly, Conner tries to win back the public's affection by implementing a number of gimmicks into his concert tour with disastrous results.

Unique to Tesla is how it brings all these functions together in the Model X and turns them from gimmicks into functionality.

The last big Mario Adventure was Super Mario 64 before Nintendo spammed Gimmicks into these Games.

Talking about Xbox One's Kinect pack - in, and how that benefits developers now they don't need to shoe - horn gimmicks into games to sell the peripheral, Woodroffe told the magazine «Now it's in the box, use it where it make sense, don't where it doesn't.

A great software experience that leaves has matured the gimmicks into useful features that you can actually count on.

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So, my dilemma became how to weave wellness principles into the company's culture without gimmicks and judgment of others.

Services based around perks often seem to have a lot of initial success, and then people get tired of the idea — it turns into a gimmick.

Having a viral hit is great, but you have to ask yourself: «What will translate into sales over the longer period of time, a one - off gimmick or long - term brand advocacy?»

Aside from the Switch's main gimmick — turning into a portable console — and Nintendo's first - party game lineup, there's no standout sell point for the Switch.

One gimmick is a personal identification number, assigned to each designated caller, that's punched into the touchpad so the home number gets the bill.

Nor is the U.S. Federal Reserve Board's latest policy gimmick, «the twist», likely to prove any more effective in breathing new life into a stagnating economy than the measures to prevent a Greek default.

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.

The directive of the churches represented in Faith and Order — that a study of worship be pursued over a number of years — indicates a recognition that there is a giveness to Christian worship, and that the common degradation of worship into gimmicks for religious mood - engendering is a kind of impoverishment, a failure, a positive disobedience hiding behind the face of individualism, spontaneity, freedom.

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!»

We were trying to talk ourselves into becoming certain, as if faith was a sort of psychological gimmick.

While most people don't need to spend almost # 90 to discover if they love or hate Marmite; the marketing gimmick plays into the «love it or hate it» mantra that is synonymous to the brand's history and longevity.

We can't chase some of the gimmicks that go on with the racetrack and the surface and the grip level and tune our car into that.

If they don't turn him into a comedy jobber, but present him as a serious threat, the gimmick gets over.

I believe all those bids are just gimmick to lure fans into buying season ticket again.

While it was fine to indulge your toddler's desire to have his cheese sandwiches cut into star or moon shapes, your preschooler is getting old enough to eat without special gimmicks.

Instead, it would let municipalities push payment of today's ballooning pension costs into the future, in what amounts to an accounting gimmick.

There are so many of them, that if you get suckered into these «ab workout» gimmicks, you will be broke quicker than Ben Johnson sprints the 100 m dash!

Also, do not fall into gimmicks.

The entire «organic eggs», «free range eggs», «natural feed» woo woo are just marketing gimmicks used to trick people into believing that certain animal products are better than others.

Hello Sara, i'm not sure if you are another gimmick that builds our hopes up and then leave us to fall back into a spiral of depression and self torture.

You don't want to trick someone into liking a false version of yourself, you want them to like you for you, so fakery and gimmicks are pointless.

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We work because we don't believe in gimmicks, false promises or cheap tricks to draw you into our events.

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All these little gimmicks are used to lure you into paying for a membership to interact with women on the site.

Moreover, the gimmicks adopted by the millionaire matchmaker websites can easily lure one into making an account.

Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell, and Drew Barrymore are the stars of this Western whose main gimmick is making heroes into heroines.

The charisma of L'il Bow Wow's spirited screen presence turn a contemporary Cinderella gimmick and a by - the - numbers script into a better film than anyone would have expected.

That was the gimmick of the film, the main thing that got me into the theater, but Roger Rabbit is much more that just a gimmick.

He took those two magnificent performances and dropped them into a trendy, gimmick - ridden exercise in fashionable cinema.

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.

Garland has a real instinct for how to draw out suspense while also delivering a gut - punch climax that doesn't feel like a gimmick or a letdown; when he finally shows you the horror, it is truly horrific, and he turns the film's final 15 minutes into both a bizarre light - show and an oddly compelling, gruelingly physical duel.

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.

The paper gimmick seeps into the gameplay and narrative as well.

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

Rotten: Can you inflate a gimmick - driven comedy skit into a full - fledged feature film?

The plot follows the routine path, and the gimmick of the walking, talking id that is Deadpool only lasts for so long before even the character seems to fall into a routine.

he director Robert Rodriguez («Desperado») has taken his family - friendly series of children's adventure films, «Spy Kids,» into the realm of three dimensions with «Spy Kids 3 - D: Game Over,» an enjoyable, noisy romp that trots out all the gimmicks that have made the format fun since its first brief crest of popularity in the early 1950's.

The cancer comes into the picture late in the third act, long after we've grown to know and love these characters, so it doesn't feel like a tear - jerking gimmick.

Sliding into the Annie Potts secretary role, Chris Hemsworth is certainly game playing perhaps the dumbest human being on the planet, but the one - note nature of his gimmick wears thin faster than one might expect.