Sentences with phrase «modern gimmicks like»

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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!»

the point of the new one is its probably 20 years away from what nintendo is capable of but they may release it in 2030 and the nintenbots will love it then and get to brag about playing old games while the majority of gamers play modern cutting edge quality games that don't favor short cut gimmicks like nintendo and their cardboard crap.

gimmicks like this are the last ditch attempts to make modern comics collectible again, but fail.

Whether one considers these bold innovations or gimmicks by which to impress the art market, they had nothing to do with abstraction as such, with that ruthless subtractive process of whittling images down to their roots which so obsessed critics like Greenberg that they put it at the center of their story of what modern art even is.