Sentences with phrase «more 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.

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Action: Say no to always - on voice assistants Who is this for: Anyone who values privacy more than gimmickry How difficult is it: No real effort Tell me more: There's a rash of smart speaker voice assistants on shop shelves these days, marketed in a way that suggests they're a whole lot smarter and more useful than they actually are.
Instead of trafficking in populist gimmickry, Mr Miliband might more usefully spell out how Labour would recast the energy market.
has a title that reeks of mediocre gimmickry, and indeed this film is more than a little silly.
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.
Unsane takes the handmade appearance of a found footage movie but removes the artificial gimmickry, and only leaves the general sensation that this horrible story feels more «real» than we'd really like it to.
Far more than the filmmaker's hectic, ultimately tension - dispersing visual and aural gimmickry, the picture's best special effect remains Franco's performance, which catches the horror and sublimity of a jock humbled while trapped at the bottom of the earth, becoming spiritually whole even as he literally loses parts of himself.
Though Rocky and Rocky have become synonymous with scrappy underdog tales, the movie is upfront about the gimmickry afoot when Balboa is plucked from obscurity to fight reigning champ Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) when a more experienced boxer drops out.
Author Rob Marks notes that critics of Op art who characterize the genre as superficial are ignoring the possibilities that lie beneath the surface: «Faruqee's 2013P - 29, 2013P - 32, and 2013P - 34 (all 2013), for example, could appear as little more than decoration, gimmickry, or novelty....
I think O'Riley would like that reversal of his nightly opening remarks as it applies to what I regard as sales gimmickry disguised as consumer - oriented «We wan na make less so that you can save more
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