Sentences with phrase «ploy worked»

Niro's ploy worked.

The ploy worked.

The 1968 Rachel, Rachel was the outcome of Woodward's exile; she and Newman admitted it was carefully designed as a vehicle to resuscitate her career, and the ploy worked brilliantly — he directed, she starred, and together they led the film to four Oscar nominations, including Best Actress and Best Picture.The following year Woodward and Newman reunited onscreen for the auto - racing drama Winning, and again starred together in 1970s politically charged W.U.S.A., a reflection of the couple's high - profile support of liberal causes; when 1971's They Might Be Giants proved unsuccessful, Newman directed Woodward to Best Actress honors at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man - in - the - Moon Marigolds.

There was speculation amongst his fellow students that Mature's spartan lifestyle was deliberately engineered to draw publicity to himself; if so, the ploy worked, and by 1938 he'd been signed to a contract by producer Hal Roach.

Your ploy worked, now I'm in suspense:) And uff, I know what you mean about colored jeans.

But hey, the marketing ploy worked as it caught my attention and got me curious enough to want to try it.

It's not clear whether the ploy worked; the CIA isn't talking.

The ploy worked (with a bit of help from the many critics who panned it), giving The Fifth Estate the worst opening of 2013.

To really make this ploy work, it would be great for the Gunners to get the opening goal and to get it nice and early.

The dramatic ploy works on us because memory seems inviolable, or at least, we desperately hope that it is.

The ploy works and with fellow agent June O'Day (Nancy DeShon), a «paroled» Jim is soon headed for the last location of the stage robbers.

His sudden decision to play the suitor in Kinnear's romantic distraction feels a little out of character, but Gervais» oblivious enthusiasm makes the fumbling ploy work.

Given Dennis's germaphobia, the ploy works, although it soon becomes evident that sex slavery is not on the table.

Director Andreas Dresen allowed the actors to improvise their material, and this ploy works fitfully.

Not exact matches

In a recent blog post, Noyes, a quantitative trader, called the Telegram ICO an «opportunistic ploy» and described the project's 132 - page technical whitepaper as «essentially a wishlist of things they want to have, and how it will work assuming that their wishlist doesn't crash and burn.»

Rashad Robinson, executive director of online racial justice organization Color of Change, said in a statement late Tuesday that while he applauded Uber's newfound transparency, «the onus is now on Kalanick and Uber's leadership team to prove that all this public soul - searching isn't just a public relations ploy and to work with advocates and experts to meaningfully increase diversity at the company.»

Is the proposed Vancouver housing strategy going to work or is this just a ploy by the mayor to get re-elected?

The let them eat cake ploy has been tried in the past, and it didn't work out so well for those in power.

A mostly derivative pastiche of questionable musical integrity, the piece was roasted (backstage, of course» as professionals we will play as well as we can anything that is put on our music stands) by most of my colleagues, and we complained bitterly that the last minute programming of the piece (replacing Brahms» Third Symphony) was no more than a marketing ploy foisted upon us by Sony Classical in order to boost CD sales of the work.

The ploy here was to convert people to Christianity and it worked.

And so he resorted to the same ploy that had worked millions of times before.

This is just a marketing ploy, and it worked brilliantly.

They say that it is a marketing ploy that they hope will work well.

Then we go into Chippendales mode and everything comes off in a desperate ploy to score score score, but you rarely know if it'll work and sometimes you get your worst ever embarrassments cos of it.

And even though Pittsburgh tried very hard to keep their local fish stores from selling catfish to Predators fans, the ploy apparently didn't work.

Wenger needs to understand that his ploys and tactics are outdated and are not working!

We all know it is just another cynical ploy for the TV networks to get another live game on the screens, but Theo Walcott thinks that the novelty could work in Arsenal favour as we look to go top of the table before everyone else plays over the weekend.

Taking off Alexis / Cazorla / Wilshire, but leaving on Ozil, majestic ploy to fool Mourinho into believing we had surrendered the game — and it worked, we had!

If it was a marketing ploy on their part, it worked as I felt so insulted by the odds that I decided to «punish» them by collecting # 210 with a tenner bet if my team pull it off.

And has such a ploy really worked for Mourinho in the past?

The slow start has been a common theme in a lot of Arsenal's recent trips to Anfield, as it seemed the initial ploy was to sit a bit deeper and soak up pressure, as has worked for Arsenal in other big games this season.

If that ploy doesn't work, try redirecting her attention.

If the clock ploy doesn't work, feel free to blame me!

If this ploy doesn't work, don't push it.

Initial responses seem to suggest that Cameron's ploy has worked to unite the Conservative Party: the Conservative Home blog has been publishing the reactions of delighted Eurosceptics all morning.

(For the record, the holding - the - paychecks ploy didn't work.

«In hindsight, it's easy to see the whole thing was just a scam, a cynical ploy to drive a radical agenda using the muscle and money of organized labor while widely ignoring the actual concerns of New York's working people.

The Working Families Party, the labor - backed political party that has feuded with Mr. Cuomo, cried foul, claiming the WEP was a cynical ploy to siphon votes from the WFP.

The science is still young, but we know a few things: Probiotics work better in a pack; prebiotics mixed in with probiotics are just a marketing ploy because there isn't enough prebiotic to make a difference; and shelf life matters most.

This ploy usually consists of two separate websites working together.

Even though majority of us are aware that this is how the fashion industry works, many still fall victim to this ploy.

Why, even though there are numerous ads for a litany of free dating sites, people still feel like there is some sort of ploy or scam in the works.

It's a ploy which works brilliantly because while all the usual superhero conventions are present, they're almost all turned on their head so instead of being clichéd, they become fresh and delightful.

However, his ploy doesn't work... rooming with a fellow addict (Owen Wilson) doesn't help... and soon Jerry is plunged even deeper into the world of drugs.

If the IMDB posts are anything to go by, this marketing ploy hasn't worked and hopefully this trailer botch will not derail the success of what looks to be a great film.

Her ploys to entice the unaware John at work fall flat, so she turns to the 13 - year - old granddaughter of her outspoken pal Roz (an invaluable Tyne Daly), who helps her create a fake Facebook page so she can virtually stalk him.

The ploy initially works, but three years down the line, she's shocked to learn that the new breed has rushed through countless generations of development and now lives in the bowels of the New York subway system.

The mystery and name itself have given Paramount and Bad Robot a wonderful (and financially thankful) marketing ploy of letting mystery do the work for them.

While that could be seen as nothing more than a clever marketing ploy, Peter Capaldi's first adventure in the TARDIS is memorable for a number of reasons (including a limited theatrical release)-- enough that the release of Doctor Who: Deep Breath works as a standalone.

However, once Big Boss uncovers Zero's ploy, he flips the bird at the supergroup and works to create a mercenary army of his own: Militaires Sans Frontières.