Sentences with phrase «than a gimmick for»

until they put together a cheap, affordable ebook reader for the masses it's going to be nothing more than a gimmick for the average person.

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Hope this doesn't put off new Tesla owners who see this charging at the superchargers, the guy must have more money than sense to spend that kind of cash on one car just so that he can say he has an electric estate car for his dog, nice gimmick but he is not going to be offsetting the cost of fuel anytime soon.

Cameron came up with a term for this special lack of depth: He calls his updated gimmick «immersive 3 - D,» as if putting audiences in the midst of his alien worlds and catastrophic battle scenes carried greater believability than any before in Western art.

Countless fast - casual pizza chains are known more for their gimmicks and marketing campaigns than their pizza.

By Brian Salgado ountless fast - casual pizza chains are known more for their gimmicks and marketing campaigns than their pizza.

This supportive guide provides step - by - step advice for a compassionate and emotionally aware process — one that focuses on positive connection rather than relying on gimmicks, pressure, or rewards (which usually backfire).

Graziano's latest campaign gimmick places his own personal bitterness over the best choice for the constituents he wished to serve with nothing more than a disgraceful and petty act of revenge.

At a public health forum in Downtown Brooklyn, he railed against the current administration for using «one shots and fiscal gimmicks» to balance its budgets, and slammed Bloomberg's large soda ban as nothing more than «big PR.»

Just over $ 225 million of the $ 1.2 billion in what the CBC calls «gimmicks» would come from shifting the means by which more than 3,000 state workers are paid for their jobs, according to the commission's report, which was obtained by The Buffalo News.

The correct decision is, as I have been continually advocating for years, to fire the current administrator, develop a full efficiency and profitability turnaround plan with a strict timeline, and, if only if those concerted efforts fail, then sell the hospital to a carefully selected and responsible buyer directly rather than through the budgetary gimmick of an LDC.

In a statement, Rep. Louise Slaughter (D - Rochester) said the amendment is «a gimmick, and nothing more than pure political cover for wavering New York Republicans that know the Republican healthcare plan would devastate our state, especially upstate rural areas.»

While there's nothing wrong with some variety to keep things interesting and overcome plateaus, change for its own sake is directionless and most of the latest gimmicks are nothing more than flashes in the pan that will be out of fashion by this time in 2019, if not before.

This tweaked perspective feels really cool for the first couple hours, but eventually the uniqueness fades and you realize that a shifted perspective is little more than a gimmick that adds nothing truly significant to the shooter genre.

A rhythm game based on an RPG series focusing on an extremely narrow selection of music seems ripe for a game that's more gimmick than gratification, but I was extremely surprised at how much joy I got from most of the time I spent with it.

Pinks, greens, and yellows become more than just an exciting aesthetic or a gimmick of a framing device: they set the entire tone for the course of the movie.

But we've got our fingers crossed that it'll be more than a gimmick, because one of the most exciting actors around, Tom Hardy, has the lead role, and will seemingly be on screen for every frame of the runtime.

So bottom line: this (the fact it's actually NOT op), the fact it's new and shiny (frikkin flagship monster and its gimmick / status), the fact people are whining WAY TOO MUCH ABOUT IT without even playtesting the alternatives, which just prove that MH3U is EASIER THAN YOU PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE, NOT THAT SLIME IS BROKEN (monsters have 2 - player based hp, not 4 - player based), and the fact that people even have to ask QUESTIONS in a FORUM style over here about «how to deal» with slime users, is why next time I'm online and I'm asked to not use slime, while normally I'd do just that (not use it), from now on, I'll switch to kelbi bow and awaken with bombardier and wait for them to kick me out.

Then for them to carry on galaxy to the Wii U would mean that they would have broken their trend of having a completely different game than the rest of the console 3D Marios with their own specific gimmick and in some way, they broke with galaxy 2.

The plot of director Mark Palansky and Mike Vukadinovich's screenplay is little more than a murder mystery, and it's one that doesn't even incorporate the central gimmick into the story enough for the concept of a memory - recording device to really matter.

You have to give 3D ticket buyers some kind of bang for their buck, and when dealing with a story set in the 17th century, Da Vinci - designed airships are about as much as you can get away with, I guess... All in all, this 3D film is more than a cheap gimmick, but is far from mind - blowing.

But, as with so many of its modern big - screen cousins, the addition of 3D to «Dial M for Murder» is just that — a gimmick, little more than a cinematic curiosity.

While even the most well - executed 3D narrative films have hardly depended on the gimmick for anything more than bonus effect, 3D actively enhances the audience's understanding of the subject in «Pina,» where movement patterns and spatial deconstruction in the late Pina Bausch's choreography are brought to the fore, replicating the immediacy and interactivity of live performance.

Proven more than a gimmick, gamification is claiming stakes as the must have addition for top - notch eLearning.

«If the pupil premium turns out to be a token amount of money compared to existing deprivation funding, extra funding on top of a smaller budget, or paid for by cutting other programmes that help the most disadvantaged children then this announcement may turn out to be little more than a gimmick.»

Additional proof that this budget move is nothing more than a gimmick, is the fact that the new budget makes no attempt to provide the additional resources that would be needed to care for those children, if they were actually moved back into the Bridgeport schools.

Not satisfied with diverting more than $ 110 million a year to privately owned, but publicly funded, charter school companies in Connecticut, the charter school industry is about to make a massive grab for even more public funds via a gimmick called «Money Follows the Child.»

Educator and researcher Kevin G. Welner writes that none of the reforms discussed in a «manifesto» for school reform by Joel Klein, Michelle Rhee and 14 other schools chiefs are grounded in research and are nothing more than fads and gimmicks.

actually what makes a complete mockery of the rules for a hybrid are the Press to Pass Hypercar pretenses of being a hybrid that are in fact nothing more than a gimmick..

Although the book may prove too philosophical for some, Zevin offers readers more than a gimmick - driven novel of ideas: the world of Elsewhere is too tangible for that.

But no online bookseller gives away the entire book, with the exception of Amazon as a sales gimmick and even then, they only do it for a limited amount of time and they charge the author rather than the reader by demanding exclusivity for 90 days,

Some will argue that free is a gimmick, too, especially since you can't upload a book for less than 99 cents at Amazon (you can at iTunes, Kobo, and, via the Smashwords backdoor, Barnes & Noble — you have to wait and hope Amazon will price - match).

Though just as much a gimmick as it was on the G2, the feature is a much better fit for the slate, since users are more likely to leave a tablet on a flat surface to use it than they would a smartphone.

For the record, there's nothing particularly innovative about the aPen, which seems like more of a gimmick than anything else.

even if it doesn't have any impact in the quality of my sleep, this option is for me much more than just a gimmick

We're still not entirely sure the haptic feedback for turning through pages is more than a gimmick, but can see the allure it might have.

For that reason, there was a time when the policies are more a gimmick and money trap for concerned pet owners rather than a product that can help the animaFor that reason, there was a time when the policies are more a gimmick and money trap for concerned pet owners rather than a product that can help the animafor concerned pet owners rather than a product that can help the animals.

For another, trying to breed for rare colors or extreme sizes is a sign that the breeder is more interested in making money out of a sales gimmick than in producing great puppiFor another, trying to breed for rare colors or extreme sizes is a sign that the breeder is more interested in making money out of a sales gimmick than in producing great puppifor rare colors or extreme sizes is a sign that the breeder is more interested in making money out of a sales gimmick than in producing great puppies.

So, in my opinion... all this mumbo - jumbo isn't good for you or your dog; it is a foolish marketing gimmick that is causing more harm than good.

It's always good to have input from the younger generation of Nintendo rather than just the seasoned professionals, I mean even Shigeru is losing his touch (see: less story - oriented, more gimmick focused Paper Mario like Sticker Star / Color Splash, Star Fox Zero's control wonkiness along with it essentially being Star Fox 64 Remake # 120029, single analog stick for original 3DS, etc) even though he has helped make many of my favorite games throughout his time at Nintendo.

Of course, it's bloody useless, a gimmick for which I can find no reasonable application other than being kind of cool.

Wait until you don't have to make such drastic concessions for the sake of what many people few as little more than a gimmick.

The permadeath feature is also a missed opportunity — If an ally falls in combat and bleeds out before you or another teammate can reach them then they're dead for the duration of the game, yet if you die or even simply load up one of the many automatic checkpoints then you can completely bypass his, making it seem like more of a gimmick rather than punishing you for your actions.

You only play as Sonic, there is actual platforming as opposed to watching Sonic run forward automatically, stages don't drag on for more than 15 minutes and there are no Werehog - like gimmicks to be found.

Although I give it a 40 % chance at succeeding because the technology alone isn't enough... developers have to take advantage of it and make stuff for it, and as we've seen with the Wii and other gimmick tech, that's easier said than done.

Far from a gimmick, the New 3DS is actually a seriously impressive little machine that might even be more suitable for some players than its big brother.

I much prefer all your limited time being spent on making this singleplayer experience the best it can be for PS3, period, rather than wasting your time with gimmicks.

The PS Vita, Sony's upcoming handheld, contains more technology and gimmicks than Johnny Five - and naturally its forward facing camera is perfect for augmented reality.

It's more extravagant than Kirby's Epic Yarn, and really runs with the yarn gimmick to make for a very beautiful game.

It's a good idea, then, but at # 29.99 / $ 29.99 I'd expect a hell of a lot more bang for my buck than a quirky platformer that, while well designed, relies on randomness as its main gimmick.