Sentences with phrase «r gimmickry»

But McMahon raised serious doubts about Cuomo being able to limit state operations spending to two percent without some cost shifting and other budget r gimmickry, such as moving some state government workers from the operations budget to capital.

It starts with a short and neat Powerpoint presentation from each panelist, and onward into some interesting discussions of whether «innovation» actually matters, or whether it's gimmickry for gimmickry's sake.

Gone was the gimmickry of five years ago and up on the wall was visually exciting art!

There's no gimmickry in terms of motion control, instead you're presented with minimal buttons.

Not exact matches

«This was an era where reliability and resilience were rated much higher than shiny new gimmickry.»

Waiving PAYGO now on the grounds that the AMT's growth was «unanticipated» would accept a false claim — that the growth of the AMT was not expected or intended — and would reward the budget gimmickry used in designing the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts.

Were Congress to waive the Pay - As - You - Go rules now and deficit - finance the AMT patch, lawmakers would merely be rewarding the budget gimmickry of 2001.

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.

But it's another when another offers them knowing they are just addictive tactics and gimmickry.

Today, many are wary that the study of ancient and contemporary rhetoric will cause their preaching to become pompous, rigid and loaded with false gimmickry.

Gimmickry is predictable.

And it made me wonder what kind of God would leverage the life of a young man on how well we were to perform this psychological gimmickry, and about a matter that, if we're honest with ourselves, we can't be certain of.

His tasting menu and à la carte dishes — silky - smooth chicken liver topped with tart Meyer lemon jelly, fried - chicken skins with honey and whipped sauce, red snapper in fermented - shrimp broth — are technical and intricate, but the chef never sacrifices flavor for gimmickry.

The Bulls played the part of the overmatched squad, resorting to gimmickry and luck to stay tight, and the Heat were the world - beaters trying to avoid the upset.

It is not the finest moment for a governor who vowed to end fiscal gimmickry.

It used to be easy to forgive Ed Miliabnd the blatant gimmickry of policies like an energy price freeze, because you felt they came from a genuine intellectual place.

Hong crafts his films as if he's simply watching ordinary people, while simultaneously layering his gimmickry over average - seeming lives in order to reveal broader truths.

Surround activity is intelligently used for atmosphere and environmental noise, and never for gimmickry.

The Harry Potter films are rich enough without any layering of gimmickry.

Compelled by Warner Bros. to film Dial M for Murder in 3 - D, Hitchcock perversely refused to throw in the standard in - your - face gimmickry of most stereoscopic films of the era — though watch how he visually emphasizes an important piece of evidence towards the end of the film.

has a title that reeks of mediocre gimmickry, and indeed this film is more than a little silly.

The movie is heavy on shock and gimmickry, thanks to Renny Harlin's frenetic and flamboyant direction.

If you're familiar with writer - director Rian Johnson's prior films, Brick and The Brothers Bloom, then you can be forgiven for assuming that Looper will collapse under the weight of its gimmickry.

Though die - hard fans have clearly come to expect this kind of computer - generated gimmickry, with rare exceptions — the half - horse, half - eagle Hippogriffs are a great success — these kooky bits of business are both unconvincing and a distraction from the emotional core that makes the Potter books so special.

Beyond the gimmickry of the penis gags, this is an romantic comedy with wit and charm to burn.

From the first bow - slide to the last beat, it feels so packed and suffused with emotion, sound - gimmickry (remember «Climbing up the Ladder» s extremely disconcerting strings which have been ingeniously arranged to make you feel like you wither away) and Yorke's other - worldly voice.

This tense character piece abandons gimmickry to explore the ways in which women's voices are ignored

Surround gimmickry is used sparingly — the rear speakers are most apparent during the tribal siege and squid attack.

The elaborations (some would say gimmickry) of Emma Rice's short tenure have been reined back, and a new concentration prevails.

The tension is rooted in psychology rather than gimmickry, and evinces a command of craft that feels old - fashioned in the most refreshing possible sense.

Unfortunately, given that the thriller plot kicks in for the latter half of the film, which employs such things as cracked security systems, hacked computers, tampered drinks, hidden cameras, women in cages, car chases, and criminal frame jobs, the upper hand is completely lost to cheesy mainstream suspense gimmickry that is both wearisome and distasteful considering the thematic material presented.

For what it's worth, the action sequences remind mostly of Brosnan - era Bond — which is to say, they're cluttered with a lot of empty noise and gimmickry.

If the movie emerges as a celebration of its heroine's wits, it is also, ultimately, a defense of her scruples — something it achieves through a deft combination of «Social Network» structural gimmickry and «Steve Jobs» sentimental back story.

Boasting none of the lyricism, grace or psychological incisiveness of his prior masterworks (Paris, Texas; Wings Of Desire), Wenders» latest is a misbegotten stew of turgid drama and look - at - me 3 - D gimmickry, with the director using his signature special effects to highlight foreground - background dynamics in the most unnecessarily self - conscious manner possible.

Unconvincing CGI wizardry and scratch and smell gimmickry are outdone only by the endless overuse of unfunny time puns.

The film's gimmickry becomes increasingly obvious because the storytelling is malnourished, with a plot that's an excuse to string together cool stuff like alien weapons that liquefy targets into visceral splatter (that and New Zealand get you Peter Jackson) and a robotic super-suit with a holographic display.

The ceiling for this type of tossed - off entertainment may be fairly low, but all the participants here are game and on the same page regarding the type of movie they're making, and director Warren Sonoda and his behind - the - camera collaborators actually come up with inventive staging tricks to keep the gimmickry of the conceit from getting stale.

Since this is in 3 - D, Hurwitz and Schlossberg mildly poke the gimmick («Hasn't 3 - D jumped the shark,» Harold wonders), while director Todd Strauss - Schulson takes full advantage of such gimmickry as eggs and their yolks flying at the camera in slow motion as Harold attempts to escape the protestors» wrath.

Although its formalism is rigid, the film rises well above gimmickry to become a truly great, unique piece of cinema (and a very fine crime movie to boot), conjuring its own world, commenting on our own and giving the audience something that's palpably new.

At least, the film doesn't overplay its three - dimensionality with an abundance of in - your - face gimmickry, instead allowing planes of depth to be known to somewhat cool effect.

It's clearly smart enough that it could have surpassed movies like «Rain Man» and «Transamerica,» both of which rely too heavily on gimmickry and fail to achieve such fully rounded human representations.

by Walter Chaw An experiment in perceptual distortion that questions the nature of viewership and the law of observation that states, in part, that the nature of the process of observation necessitates a change in the essential quality of the observed, Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal is a hyper - pretentious film - within - a-film-within-a-film conceit so gimmicky it hardly matters that by the end gimmickry is its point.

Spoils doesn't just ape and parody melodramatic»70s television, but all sorts of gimmickry (one scene is in 3D and the first episode is preceded by a half dozen of made - up technical format acknowledgements) and egomaniacal storytellers (Jonrosh kind of resembles Francis Ford Coppola at the height of his vision and power).

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.

Shaking Chains have created an AI - powered video that changes with every play, but how does their attempt rank in the pantheon of music video gimmickry?

Our business is structured on being able to revive and refresh our huge back catalogue of copyrighted content for new generations, and whilst digital technology clearly provides great opportunities in this regard, it's vital that any such reinvention is geared towards long - term relevance and audience engagement, rather than gimmickry.

«We believe in publicly funded public education and we believe that we can have a system in Chicago that is equal to or exceeds school districts in Finland or Japan,» she says of the colleagues with whom she has reshaped the Chicago Teachers Union into a leading force in the fight against school privatization, closures, cuts and the gimmickry that too often passes for education policy.

The Dodge's understated cockpit doesn't boast any of the traditional show - car ingredients — there's no technological whiz - bangery that doesn't yet exist, no joystick controls or fancy upholstery — and its exterior styling sports no trendy design touches or visual gimmickry.

It's been a long four years coming, but the i8 Roadster brings open - top cruising to the i8's bag of tricks, which otherwise includes making a three - cylinder turbocharged 1.5 - liter engine sound great (perhaps the greatest sorcery of all), and yet at the same time delivering an all - electric mode that brooks no gimmickry, great handling, and surprising driver engagement given the 28 mpg combined rating and 76 mpge rating when in electric - only mode — a level of efficiency typically reserved for numb, coddling commute - boxes.

Auto manufacturers are all going with electronic gimmickry these days and BMW is no different.