Sentences with word «gimmickry»

Compelled by Warner Bros. to film Dial M for Murder in 3 - D, Hitchcock perversely refused to throw in the standard in - your - face gimmickry of most stereoscopic films of the era — though watch how he visually emphasizes an important piece of evidence towards the end of the film.

There are four kinds of real estate salesperson: 1) The majority (the ever churning waves of newbies crashing in on the sandy, foundationless beach replete with the unseen undertow which drags the flotsam back out to sea) who rely on gimmickry in lieu of first - hand industry knowledge based upon industry - related experience.

From his position as a TV - show production manager, Marc Sirkin observed Hollywood's huge appetite for gimmickry.

Here, the Murano doesn't need to reply on visual gimmickry.

Totally, you're right that Iyer and Sebald haven't become the travel writing titans they are just by using gimmickry — they're simply great writers.

Since this is in 3 - D, Hurwitz and Schlossberg mildly poke the gimmick («Hasn't 3 - D jumped the shark,» Harold wonders), while director Todd Strauss - Schulson takes full advantage of such gimmickry as eggs and their yolks flying at the camera in slow motion as Harold attempts to escape the protestors» wrath.

They stand so lonely on the culture's edge that their au courant ingenuity seems absolutely avant - garde when compared to the mainstream's unethical 3 - D gimmickry.

Government gimmickry aside, upstate rarely presents an inviting investment environment.

It used to be easy to forgive Ed Miliabnd the blatant gimmickry of policies like an energy price freeze, because you felt they came from a genuine intellectual place.

There doesn't appear to be in - your - face gimmickry invented for this, as the series has dabbled with eye - catching visuals even before the enhancement.

But other paintings in «Photorealism» transcend such gimmickry.

It's clearly smart enough that it could have surpassed movies like «Rain Man» and «Transamerica,» both of which rely too heavily on gimmickry and fail to achieve such fully rounded human representations.

«The GT4 Stinger is a throwback to days when driving a car was a visceral experience that wasn't muted by electronic gimmickry.»

It also shows that the company is more focused on maintaining a sound balance sheet rather than using accounting gimmickry to boost earnings.

«The enacted budget avoided much of the fiscal gimmickry of the past to attain budget balance, and it starts to address the long - term implications of the structural imbalance in the state's finances,» DiNapoli said.

In a time so inundated with cinematic gimmickry, a filmmaker such as Ingmar Bergman would never succeed.

In addition, the evolving interaction between Tara and her alters as she becomes «co-conscious» with them feels like little more than split - screen gimmickry.

Though die - hard fans have clearly come to expect this kind of computer - generated gimmickry, with rare exceptions — the half - horse, half - eagle Hippogriffs are a great success — these kooky bits of business are both unconvincing and a distraction from the emotional core that makes the Potter books so special.

De Palma's visual acuity tends to blur into mere gimmickry without the benefit of a resonant script.

It's too bad that Phillips fumbles for comic gimmickry when he has the makings of a rich and timely satire on poison - peddling motivational personalities.

And the new year offers high - powered sports cars that run the gamut from retro wind - in - the - face sporting machines to the latest in high - tech gimmickry.

As Nintendo discovered with the Wii U, people want to see innovation without too much gimmickry, because the more quirky the hardware, the less likely third - party publishers and developers are to gamble on it.

3D Gimmickry «3D on a phone is gimmicky,» Gartner Vice President for Mobile Computing Ken Dulaney told the E-Commerce Times.

by Walter Chaw An experiment in perceptual distortion that questions the nature of viewership and the law of observation that states, in part, that the nature of the process of observation necessitates a change in the essential quality of the observed, Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal is a hyper - pretentious film - within - a-film-within-a-film conceit so gimmicky it hardly matters that by the end gimmickry is its point.

As a steady trend toward figurative work takes the pressure off the purely abstract painter and the purely conceptual artist — once the core population of the avant - garde — and puts it squarely on the shoulders of picture makers working with recognizable imagery, the task of embracing a subject in an approach that won't deteriorate into gimmickry grows daunting.

Although there will be accusations of first - degree gimmickry leveled at Toyota for making this a selling point of the car, there is a certain brand consistency in the Camry Hybrid offering cleaner in - cabin air.

Atari relied heavily on old, established IPs (arcade games in its case) and gimmickry too, while at the same time falling behind in terms of its consoles» raw performance and capabilities, and losing nearly all 3rd party developer support.

«This was an era where reliability and resilience were rated much higher than shiny new gimmickry.»

You'll also find warnings about investment fads and fashions, including the recent stampede into exchange traded funds and the rise of indexing gimmickry.

Today, many are wary that the study of ancient and contemporary rhetoric will cause their preaching to become pompous, rigid and loaded with false gimmickry.

And it made me wonder what kind of God would leverage the life of a young man on how well we were to perform this psychological gimmickry, and about a matter that, if we're honest with ourselves, we can't be certain of.

This is statistical gimmickry.

We hoped their odd disengagement was just an example of a natural fact of politics: When unpracticed small - time politicians attempt the heart - yanking gimmickry their big - stage counterparts wield so smoothly, they often look pretty silly.

The governor's proposed $ 98 billion state operating - funds budget for fiscal 2018 again shows growth below the 2 percent line — with help from still more gimmickry, such as a shift of 75 State Police positions into the capital - projects fund.

Aided by some budgetary gimmickry, the governor through this year has, at least technically, stuck to the 2 percent line — but has also spent any resulting excess cash before it could accumulate into much of a true surplus.

But McMahon raised serious doubts about Cuomo being able to limit state operations spending to two percent without some cost shifting and other budget r gimmickry, such as moving some state government workers from the operations budget to capital.

Katko said the legislation and the ensuing attacks for his opposition to the bill are nothing more than election year gimmickry.

has a title that reeks of mediocre gimmickry, and indeed this film is more than a little silly.

If you're one who appreciates horror flicks strictly for cheesy black humor, blood quotient and visceral technique, perhaps you'll be more forgiving of a shoddy story, anemic acting chops, idiotic characterizations, zero suspense levels, and obvious plot gimmickry.

With vulnerability and pain snapping straight into big laughs, IRON MAN 3 has the potential for some serious emotional whiplash, but where things occasionally steer off - track and threaten to go a little «Carry On Marvel», the choice to steep the antagonists in such deep - rooted realism prevents this comic book outing from predictable gimmickry.

Suffice to say that the unveiling of SPECTRE cues a modern - day rewrite of classic Bond mythos, teasing the audience with wry winks to series - affiliated imagery and gimmickry dating back to the Sean Connery era, from white cats to ejector seats.

Michelle Pfeiffer shines through her character's desperation and some filmmaking gimmickry in the title role of this edgy drama.

As I sat through a raft of ineffectual revenge pictures like» Out of the Furnace» or the «Oldboy» remake, I was reminded of Saulnier's film, which takes every silly genre trope and reveals it as the petty gimmickry it really is.