Sentences with phrase «on gimmicks like»

By removing the price tag from Windows, not only does Microsoft remove a major obstacle to consumer adoption, it frees itself from having to rely on gimmicks like Ultimate Extras so it can instead focus on making the platform the best it can be.

Let's assume you haven't played Call Of Duty for years — it's evolved from a fairly generic shooter for its time (albeit a good one) back with the original instalment and has slowly tacked on gimmicks like regenerating health, sliding around on your knees, wall running, exoskeletons, branching stories, space ships, and a weapon customisation menu over the years.

They don't rely on gimmicks like super aggressive throttle tip - in or enormous factory wheels to convey sportiness; they're just sporty.

Not exact matches

Berkshire Hathaway has always been the quintessential buy - and - hold company — and helps ensure that its Class A shareholders are focused on the same long - term goals by refusing, for example, to indulge in gimmicks like stock splits.

We want to take our eyes off following man made rules and gimmicks and focus entirely on Christ and living a life like His.

Or are products like Born Free bottles a clever marketing gimmick designed to play on our fears?

Sounding like the nominee - in - waiting that many party leaders consider him to be, Astorino also broadly attacked Cuomo's announced budget as built on «gimmicks» designed to «get across the finish line in November, and then everything can collapse as far as he's concerned.»

«Communities don't want gimmicks like «respect handbooks» - they want police officers on their streets to take real action against antisocial behaviour,» said shadow police minister Nick Herbert.

The point is to not fall for some gimmick like extremely low carbs (although I do believe in a fairly reduced carb intake as that is a big problem for most people), low fat, super high protein, or any other combination that has you focusing on one macronutrient vs. another.

I give the TRUTH on what people really need to get lean sexy abs for life and why they DO N'T NEED fad gimmicks like diets, ab infomercial gadgets, and bogus fat burning pills that people waste way too much money on.

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.

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.

This is no commentary on racism or slavery, only a gimmick; not a satire but a pandering to the herd; not realism or revenge, but caricature, infantile mayhem and in - jokes like original, 1966 Django Franco Nero cast as Amerigo Vessepi.

If the gasps and guffaws during my screening are any indication, it's likely Blumhouse will have another crowd - pleasing franchise on its hands (Happy Death Day 2 is on the way, along with sequels to other Blumhouse hits like The Purge, Insidious and Unfriended) with a nifty, if derivative, gimmick that lends itself to multiple sequels.

How I see Mario Party is that the series continues to throw more diversity to our playtime, since one day we could choose the 3rd one, other days the 5th one and so on (minus the 8th, we do nt like it that much), but that wouldnt be possible if they all were to be the SAME, every single one has a new twist inside it, wether it is the items, the board gimmicks, the microphone or the lates 9th instament that has changed alot (but its still fun as hell) that makes it unique and worth a note.

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.

Things like this, a short and non-interactive featurette that could have just been on the disc instead, reveal BD - Live to be the gimmick that it is.

Frank is more like a gimmick film with nothing left on the page to make this giant headed lead singer very interesting.

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

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.

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.

On its surface, «Little Black Book» looks like an tritely pedestrian, gimmick - driven chick flick about...

(Except Pit or Platter that one did not read well) I actually enjoyed the car mechanic because it's not like stupid gimmicks like the last two games changing the stars differently on each boards, This mechanic is straightforward & consistent.

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

«Like most horror spinoff sequels, Annabelle: Creation is a silly, cheap attempt to cash in on a gimmick» — Glenn Sumi

Aussie Jennifer Kent's supremely confident feature debut already feels like a horror classic, restoring the genre to its psychological prestige while turning the monstrous - mommy gimmick on its head.

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.

Rather like 2011's Your Highness, the initial gimmick proudly, even boastfully, revealed in The Little Hours is based on the notion that medieval characters can be just as puerile as their contemporary counterparts.

Since this is a reunion type of movie, they could have spent more time focusing on the past instead of treating it like a gimmick and joke.

That's not necessarily a bad thing when done correctly, but when relying on silly gimmicks like fat suits and racist Chinese immigrants, it's poison.

Released in theaters 40 years ago in October, the super -»70s flick had a cool title, a killer poster, a score by Jerry Goldsmith, a cast that included George Peppard, Jan - Michael Vincent, Paul Winfield, Jackie Earle Haley, and Dominique Sanda — and the ultimate post-apocalyptic survival vehicle: The Landmaster.It capitalized on cold - war fears that nuclear armageddon was right around the corner, and what we'd be left with would be a radioactive wasteland, plagued by bizarre weather patterns and populated by mutated insects and deadly scavengers.The film also had a gimmick: Like BATTLESTAR GALACTICA's limited 1978 theatrical run that was released in «Sensurround,» DAMNATION ALLEY boasted a big - screen release bathed in «Sound 360» — basically full - range stereo speakers turned up to 11 to envelop the viewer and make the seats vibrate (a technique also used for the release of DAMIEN: OMEN II).

If the states get to decide on their own what proficiency and college and career readiness looks like state - by - state then many of the same gimmicks and obfuscations we have now about student performance will persist, just alongside a new set of standards and with the illusion of commonality.

Other tech gadgetry on the car includes the head - up display (also $ 1,700), the 3D surround view ($ 700, also adds parking assistant plus), Apple CarPlay that works over Bluetooth instead of via the USB cable ($ 300), a Wi - Fi hotspot (part of the $ 1,200 Executive Package, which also adds wireless charging, ceramic controls, and soft - close doors), and gesture control ($ 190), the last of which seems like a gimmick.

Why can't they just put a windscreen on it or even better make it a coupe and rival the porsche GT3 with it??? It just looks like a gimmick.

There are gimmicks on this pricey tester, like the heated and cooled massage seats and scent atomizer.

Quite a lot of them you can ignore: as cool as the gimmicks on the F - Sport trim are (how can you not like the LFA - inspired digital instrument bezel?)

Gimmicks like cylinder deactivation do not work while towing anyway so don't let the mileage fool you if you plan on towing.

Unfortunately, inside this app, J.A.R.V.I.S. behaves less like Siri on serious steroids and more like a marketing gimmick.

Page Press feels like a gimmick Wish it had audio Costs more than most other six inch e-readers on the market

I found the plot a little too busy and the art style was just too much like a lot of other manga based on Eroge or Hentai manga in genral also the romance of the thrre kingdoms gimmick never really got used all that well.

Amazon is relying on gimmicks to sell the phone, much like car commercials focus on 1 year free access to Pandora, or Beats audio built in!

The iPhone app was good by iPhone ebook reader standard, but the full - page image - and - text rendering felt like a gimmick on a small screen — most of the time you'll end up reflowing the raw text on your phone, a la the Kindle app.

The idea of adding a contrast - robbing layer on the screen just so I can read in complete darkness during one or two hours seems like a bit of a gimmick to me, but to each his own.

Wikitude launched on BlackBerry with OS 7.0 introducing BlackBerry users to augmented reality with less gimmicks than other platforms by using tools like BBM integration.

All of this makes for good copy on a webpage or in a brochure, but in reality, it felt like a pretty clear gimmick.

On the face of things this seems like a nice benefit but when you actually think about it it's more of a gimmick than a real positive move.

But no gimmicks on Sony side like Move or VR that they support so much that they goes as far as to close doors & lose jobs over it!

While I would have liked to have seen some gamepad specific support on this game outside of off tv play, perhaps this will shut people up about «gimmicks», and poor battery life.

It's a gimmick like the D pad (I know most people on here don't know this, but the D pad on the NES was considered a gimmick).

Just like the Wii before it, the Kinect began its life with games hinged on a gimmick, and that gimmick is, «Whoa, I'm just moving my body and things are happening on screen!