Sentences with phrase «started as a gimmick»

The classic kids» meal started as a gimmick, a way to lure in parents with small children for an easy - to - order lunch or dinner.

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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.

Starting with the Senate bill as a base, we've come up with an illustrative plan that would reduce the bill's gimmicks by at least one - third, finance the removal of the corporate AMT, and reduce the dynamic cost of the legislation to close to $ 0.

What begins as an illuminating technical achievement, quickly starts to feel more like a gimmick as the movie starts to lose steam.

However, IIT maintain their decision to dole out iPads as a few other schools have already started out with is not a marketing strategy or a gimmick to make their school become a favorite with students.

However, IIT maintain their decision to dole out iPad's as a few other schools have already started out with is not a marketing strategy or a gimmick to make their school become a favourite with students.

The dungeons in the later half, especially, drop all pretence of core gimmicks and start to adopt several different dungeon crawling staples such as dark rooms and warp panels into one perfect blend.

One thing I truly enjoy about the avatar and Modern Sonic's stages, or at least in the 3D segments, is the sheer amount of multiple pathways there are, no matter how convoluted they may seem.There are also stages where both the avatar and Modern Sonic run along side each other, which opens up the multiple pathways even more, and instead of switching a character out, each of their moves is assigned to a specific button, making them act as one character, which take some getting used to due to the visual appearance of both characters appearing on screen, but is definitely optimal.There's also some level designs with certain gimmicks: at one point you're playing pinball in the middle of a bright forest with classic Sonic, and in that same forest, you'll be playing pinball with some enemies down a water slide with the avatar, were the control starts to get kind of out of hand, while Modern Sonic will face a boss that combines the level design from Lost World with this game's boost mechanics, which was probably the intention for the departure in the 2013 game.

Yeah, Erik the Red actually started calling it Greenland as a PR gimmick to get people to go there.