Sentences with phrase «into gimmickry»

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

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.

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.

A lot of resources went into making G - Force — a lot of talent, a lot of money, a lot of marketing — and it doesn't have much to show for it, not even some half - way imaginative 3 - D gimmickry.

The film's gimmickry becomes increasingly obvious because the storytelling is malnourished, with a plot that's an excuse to string together cool stuff like alien weapons that liquefy targets into visceral splatter (that and New Zealand get you Peter Jackson) and a robotic super-suit with a holographic display.

«We believe in publicly funded public education and we believe that we can have a system in Chicago that is equal to or exceeds school districts in Finland or Japan,» she says of the colleagues with whom she has reshaped the Chicago Teachers Union into a leading force in the fight against school privatization, closures, cuts and the gimmickry that too often passes for education policy.

It starts with a short and neat Powerpoint presentation from each panelist, and onward into some interesting discussions of whether «innovation» actually matters, or whether it's gimmickry for gimmickry's sake.

So the Mail loftily affects to despise contemporary art — while itself turning art into a freakshow exhibit of worthless gimmickry.

Instead, McEwen served up a warmed - over selection of conceptual witticisms that, while slickly executed and superficially appealing, ultimately settled into a holding pattern of comfortable irony and self - satisfied gimmickry.