Sentences with phrase «little publicity stunt»

Hyundai «s nice little publicity stunt is now over: future Equus buyers will not be getting a free Apple iPad with their luxury car (much like we didn't when we reviewed it recently).

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Maryam Henein, the director of Vanishing of the Bees, a 2010 documentary that explores the environmental ramifications Colony Collapse Disorder, dismisses the personified bee being backburnered as little more than a clever «healthwashing» - reminiscent corporate publicity stunt.

Mayor Bill de Blasio appeared to dismiss Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 1.4 billion revitalization initiative for Central Brooklyn as a mere publicity stunt seriously until he sees «actual results» — and blasted his actions on affordable housing as «big talk, very little action.»

In Maps, Benjie thinks he's strangling the ghost of the little girl whom he'd visited in hospital as a publicity stunt — only to find he's throttled the little boy he's been forced to act with.

Jane Austen is Chosen to be the Face of the Ten - Pound Note: As much as I was amused and yet appalled at finding out there's a statue of Colin Firth's Mr. Darcy in London's Serpentine Lake as a publicity stunt to promote a British drama television channel, I'm a little less disturbed to see that Austen will be on the ten - pound note approximately in 2017.

Luckily, in practice, that involves little beyond driving like a lunatic in order to win races or pull off outrageous publicity stunts: every spectacular feat you nail will draw in crowds, and when they hit certain thresholds, you must either build a new festival site or expand the existing one.

Still, publicity stunts have done little to deflect the real concern that Faraday's days may be numbered.

Otherwise, he is little more than a financial publicity stunt man.