Sentences with phrase «of gimmicks like»

«All they are interested in is manufacturers of gimmicks like Creed, who made his name with a ball of BluTac and a sheet of A4 paper crumpled into a ball.»

Not exact matches

The best kind of promotion WOULD N'T it be nice if advertising executives the world over told it like it is instead of trying to dazzle us with gimmicks and slogans?

While this reads like a marketing gimmick, the NiH has independently studied and found benefits of doing so, which is why it's a natural choice for sleep products (in fact, Amerisleep's technology also uses Celiant to do so) and sleepwear.

I'm rarely in that situation so it seems to me like one of those aforementioned extraneous gimmicks, but your mileage will ultimately vary.

Those include: 1) No artificial flavors, preservatives, sweeteners, or colors; 2) no marketing gimmicks including toys or even toy - shaped food; and 3) Panera won't encourage kids to drink a sugary beverage like some of the chain's rivals.

Written down between stories of his victories with the Lakers and Bulls, some of Jackson's leadership gimmicks feel cheesy — the kind of leadership - seminar tactics espoused by the likes of The Office's Michael Scott.

I liked her stories about her mother and her family, as she clearly appreciated them very much, but the folksy gimmick of having a business lesson followed by a memory started to grate after the tenth lesson or so.

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!»

No, I am not speaking of «psuedo - psychological gimmicks like the Secret».

@new - man, Unless you're talking about those psuedo - psychological gimmicks like the Secret, there is no evidence that I'm aware of that people can bypass the laws of physics by talking.

The fighters who don't have gimmicks have never been of less value to the organisation which is why they don't bother promoting the them and treat them like they're expendable.

It seems like most of the hardcore gimmick matches that they do don't live up to the intensity that they should.

Yes, the stages are completely a marketing gimmick, but they aren't going to hurt, so if you like the ease and selection of jarred foods, go for it.

But it played well with the image of Mr Osborne as a wise and prudent future chancellor - not offering bribes or gimmicks to the public like Labour do and speaking honestly about the state of the nation.

Gimmicks like the Home Office briefing that there would be a # 3,000 bond payable for anyone intending to visit from one of five countries, which was immediately dismissed by the PM's spokesman.

It's easy for you Mr. DiNapoli to say Pension Smoothing is an accounting gimmick that would leave pension funds exposed, but in the end it's likely the last window of opportunity that a City like Syracuse, NY had to get their house in order.

I would say that whatever is contained in that document has to be free of gimmicks and games and pension steals and the like.»

Cuomo's budget division says it will cover most of the $ 3.5 billion deficit with unspecified cuts (and some accounting gimmicks, no doubt, like re-classifying certain spending programs) that hold operating spending growth to 2 percent.

Flat - screen televisions, we announced, would be of «doubtful advantage» and like «electronic watches, they are likely to be one of the sales gimmicks of the 1980s».

Sub-titles like «Diet secrets of the rich, famous, and thin» are absolute nonsense, and nothing more than a marketing gimmick.

Coconut sugar is a really clever marketing gimmick launched to take advantage of the wild popularity of coconut products (like coconut oil and coconut flour).

Pass it on: Some aspects of the 17 Day Diet make sense, like swapping unhealthy ingredients for healthy ones, but other aspects are just gimmicks.

5) Best Tourist Gimicks — Like any big city there are loads of tourist shops all around Paris but the absolute best gimmick can be found in the little shops around the Sacre Coeur — here if you look carefully you will find Parisian gimmicks with more of an arty / trendy flair

A tweed two - piece is probably not most people's idea of activewear, and the plastic - wrapped shoes, bags, and, jackets felt more like a gimmick than a real attempt at practicality, but the therapeutic waterfall did its job.

You don't want to trick someone into liking a false version of yourself, you want them to like you for you, so fakery and gimmicks are pointless.

the simple truth is that, people like to explore the pool of singles by sifting through simple location based searches and not relying on an algorithm and a bunch of gimmicks, not to mention a cash grab, in order to find someone they like the look of.

But sometimes, especially last season, the writers got too wrapped up in gimmicks like penny can, instead of the real relationships between their characters.

as a owner of a Wii u i find it very disappointing system, the game pad is a very mixed bag i mean it could work really well like the off screen game play works great but for the fact that you never really need to play off screen for any game and in fact i think the game loses a certain enjoyment level like NSMBU it mean it works but you lose some of those great looks the game has and i find colors to be washed out, next with the game bad is that they use it as a gimmick in quite a few games (zombu) and i found that over a long game play with having to look up and then down every few seconds to every minute in about 1 - 3 hours i had a huge head ache which sucked, next the biggest issue with the system is that 32 GB console are you kidding me 32 GB only?

There is an attempt at some sort of twist ending, a la M. Night Shyamalan, but even this adds so very little to the story as a whole, and comes off like a gimmick just to give the film a «big reveal» even if it doesn't really merit one.

However, with no 3 - D option offered, they'll miss the payoff, which must have been significant (at least in theory) based on the way the film serves up such illusions with nearly the regularity of gimmick - based theme park attractions like Honey, I Shrunk the Audience and Muppet * Vision 3D.

I would like something a little bit more different, looks too similar to the gamepad unless it has a hidden gimmick and although I woudn't mind if the final controller would end up like (for example) the wii u pro I think Nintendo needs and will for sure (knowing past nintendo controllers) try something out of the ordinary

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.

And, like all good trendsetters, it's stood the test of time, proving that a good twist can be an integral part of the plot, and not just a crappy gimmick.

Last Summer's biggest gimmick comedies, Year One (Jack Black in animal skins) and Land of the Lost (Ferrell in another dimension), were crushingly bad; by comparison, Forte's MacGruber (if ever a title deserved to be followed by an exclamation point, this is it), seems like a piece of comic genius.

The telltale signs of their auteurship are still there — the comic regionalism, the genre pastiche, the arresting (if sometimes sterile) cinematography — but increasingly these elements feel like gimmicks in search of a movie.

It may sound like a gimmick to have Ice Cube's son playing Ice Cube — and damned if he doesn't look exactly like a younger, thinner version of his dad — but he's also got the glare and the swagger down cold, and he more than rises to this formidable challenge in both the dramatic moments and the stage performances.

The last decade or so has seen the genre been stuck with gimmicks, like the «torture porn» craze that came with the likes of the Saw franchise and Hostel, or the «found footage» boom emerged following the massive success of the atrocious Paranormal Activity films.

He never falls back on the ticks and gimmicks that mark most of his comedic turns — quirks that made efforts like Beetlejuice so enjoyable.

Honestly, that old - fashioned, William Castle gimmick shock - buzzers like The Conjuring remain popular is actually kind of a reassuring, nostalgic phenomenon.

Hooper asks incredulously after he's told that a band called Shithead recorded the ending theme), but also «credit» Hooper with insisting on changes to their screenplay that stick out like a sore thumb, such as the elimination of a passage of time between the prologue and our introduction to the Barrows that more or less imposes an awkward real - time gimmick on the proceedings.

It felt like the gimmick of the world determined how long it would take rather than when it unlocked.

Enlisting the most gimmick - prone actor of our generation to play two characters sounds like a gimmick — and to some extent, it plays that way on The Deuce — but Franco, at least according to critics, is pulling it off.

The problem, however, is that it's filmed like absolute dogshit; the gimmick of filming most of it through the GoPro car cameras is combined with extremely disorienting and hyperkinetic editing to make the car chases nearly incomprehensible.

But I have never liked to base my opinion of a film on a gimmick.

The Hype: In Fear is one of those horror movies that revolves around a central gimmick, like The Blair Witch Project and La Casa Muda before it.

On top of this there's the gimmick of a Ghostbusters cast member, plus a surreal sequence that's like an outtake from Twin Peaks.

It's less Philip K. Dick than Medgar Evers) and its attempts to pull in some literary credibility with a running gimmick about Hansel & Gretel (had Spooner really read the fairytale, he would've solved the mystery a lot quicker), I, Robot plays like a tug - of - war between a smart source material and some really venal, really cynical studio wonks.

Many have tried, but few have succeeded in delivering the goods in a way that ties in to the main themes of the story, and Ozon's method definitely feels like far more than a gimmick.

And even selling points, like the bullet - time gimmick of «Max Payne» for instance, might feel fresh in a game, but in that case, and many others, it was something inspired by a movie («The Matrix «-RRB-, and when taken back to the big screen, it felt like just another violent cop actioner.

««I needed to find a new angle,» Nemes confessed, and while Son of Saul has both a visual and thematic angle that makes it stand out from the long cinematic history to which it is indebted, it's clear such an angle was not taken lightly and what may look like a visual gimmick, is in fact, proof positive of the ethical orientation of the film itself.»