Sentences with phrase «publicity ploy»

The art press played right into Hirst's hands covering every publicity ploy the artist created with slavish intensity.

Mitchell handles Detroit's dilapidation poetically and atmospherically, notably at the start, when Jay is tied up in an old car park to have It explained to her (the stills misleadingly suggest torture porn, possibly a devious publicity ploy on someone's part).

A Tesla spokesman said the company would comply with the order, but criticized the United Automobile Workers complaint as a publicity ploy.

A similarly indifferent box - office fate might well have awaited «The Cloverfield Paradox» before its original distributor, Paramount, doubtless aware that its price tag (north of $ 40 million) was grossly disproportionate to either its quality or its potential, wound up selling the movie to Netflix, ensuring it at least a blip in the annals of great publicity ploys.

Not exact matches

Political analyst Boban Stojanovic believes the publicity given to convicted war criminals is a ploy by the ruling party to «gain some political points» ahead of the vote.

«It's just a ploy to counteract all the publicity Bill Veeck got with his scoreboard in Chicago last year,» said one sportswriter.

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.

But this really smacks of the special pleader's manipulative ploy for more publicity for a cause.

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But the hacking ploy and surrounding publicity succeeding in sowing seeds of doubt about climate science among some sectors of the public.

Is this a ploy to gain publicity and Twitter followers?