Sentences with phrase «well as gimmicks»

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Standing there seems to be what many of the huge active fund firms have decided to do but my guess is we'll see plenty of overreactions in this space as well in the form of mergers, acquisitions, new product lines, and fund gimmicks to stay relevant.

That they chose the «accounting gimmick» instead makes a strong case that they were actively seeking a wedge issue to weaken the Church and its teachings, as well as the Catholic vote.

Now it's taking on added importance, as the most beloved gimmick match of all time could very well crown a new champion.

Now, not sure if this source simply jumped on my bandwagon from last week where I considered a move for the Portsmouth veteran as potentially a good bit of business or whether its some gimmick to promote their own site, either way I still stand by the idea being a sound short term solution.

The reason I say this is because if you wrap the sandwich in a cloth instead of this gimmick you are avoiding purchasing something else that has to be produced which causes pollution as well as your not accidentally exposing your children to harmful CFC's.

With all of the products and gimmicks on the market, there is something terribly daunting about a baby registry where it can be challenging to decipher the best brands as well as what products are actually necessary.

But it played well with the image of Mr Osborne as a wise and prudent future chancellor - not offering bribes or gimmicks to the public like Labour do and speaking honestly about the state of the nation.

Honey's main gimmick is its antibacterial properties and it reduces inflammation decently as well.

Smoothies are one of the exceedingly few «gimmicks» I actually endorse because they can actually work well as part of an easy - as - possible straightforward fitness strategy (that's the whole point of this blog).

But if you're looking for a poorly - assembled gimmick of a game that serves as a friendly reminder of the good ol' Celebrity Deathmatch days on MTV, all for a discounted price of $ 19.99, then CD just might be for you.

Not as good as Hot Pursuit, but it still offers plenty of hours of fun, and the «rivals» gimmick actually works pretty well.

as a owner of a Wii u i find it very disappointing system, the game pad is a very mixed bag i mean it could work really well like the off screen game play works great but for the fact that you never really need to play off screen for any game and in fact i think the game loses a certain enjoyment level like NSMBU it mean it works but you lose some of those great looks the game has and i find colors to be washed out, next with the game bad is that they use it as a gimmick in quite a few games (zombu) and i found that over a long game play with having to look up and then down every few seconds to every minute in about 1 - 3 hours i had a huge head ache which sucked, next the biggest issue with the system is that 32 GB console are you kidding me 32 GB only?

The paper gimmick seeps into the gameplay and narrative as well.

The only way the movie really emulates its contemporaries is by being offered in 3D, a format it exploits with the occasional in - your - face gimmick as well as the dimensional setting of the Florida climax.

McKay's gimmicks shouldn't land as well as they do, but the film succeeds because its indignation is righteous and earned.

Even the side - scrolling games, such as Sonic 4, haven't been as well received as SEGA might have expected, but there's a good reason: SEGA hadn't ever attempted to actually recreate a classic Sonic game, they kept throwing in gimmicks, using modern moves (such as lock - on attacks) and making the levels with a more linear design.

Its life system feels unnecessary and merely a remnant of older game design, and occasionally a stage's gimmick doesn't play out as well as it should.

Also, in recent weeks, we had Chronicle, an ambitious spin on the Superman mythology with a script by Max «Son Of John» Landis, though that was an example of a film that would have worked just as well without the use of the found footage gimmick.

When David Yates — best known at the time as the director of the excellent BBC conspiracy thriller television series State of Play — took over for The Order of the Phoenix, he introduced a novel but succinct gimmick that treats the wizards» wands as essentially firearms.

The reviews have been mostly enthusiastic as well, largely complimenting how the film manages to work mostly as a whole in spite of its distractingly clever gimmick.

Gamers benefitted from that just as they benefitted from the games that did use those machine's gimmicks well.

When: April 8th Why: Despite generating plenty of positive buzz at SXSW and Fantastic Fest, «Hardcore Henry» sounds like the kind of gimmick - driven concept — in this case, an entirely first - person action movie — that would work better as a short film.

Well ‑ being at work can be seen as one of those nice ‑ to ‑ have ‑ but ‑ we're far ‑ too ‑ busy ‑ just ‑ trying - to - run - a-school-with-empty-coffers gimmicks which are strongly in danger of being filed in the «nice but a bit too fluffy» drawer.

So far, in spite of much (well - deserved) criticism of the gimmicks posing as serious education policy, no alternative agenda has surfaced.

The field's failure to ground practice in the attitudes and values of science has made educators susceptible to the «authority syndrome» as well as fads and gimmicks that ignore evidence - based practice.

Other cool gimmicks are a gearshift lever badge, floor mats with the RS6 + logo, a matching trunk mat as well as the fascinating integrated entrance light which casually projects the RS6 + logo onto the floor.

Other cool gimmicks are a gearshift lever badge, floor mats with the RS4 - R logo, a matching trunk mat as well as the fascinating integrated entrance light which casually projects the RS4 - R logo onto the floor.

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.

Well that's not a marketing gimmick of any sort but a reality now as for an amount that's as low as $ 70, you can be the owner of a tablet PC that can boast of decent performance.

As well as packing the tablet with significantly more storage than the Kindle Fire, Barnes has also got gimmicks like «Read and Record», where parents can record themselves reading their kids» favourite stories so they don't actually have to be there at bedtimAs well as packing the tablet with significantly more storage than the Kindle Fire, Barnes has also got gimmicks like «Read and Record», where parents can record themselves reading their kids» favourite stories so they don't actually have to be there at bedtimas packing the tablet with significantly more storage than the Kindle Fire, Barnes has also got gimmicks like «Read and Record», where parents can record themselves reading their kids» favourite stories so they don't actually have to be there at bedtime.

It's best to think of the Fire Phone as a smaller version of a Kindle Fire tablet, but with a few extra gimmicks and features thrown in along with a free year of Amazon Prime.

These ventures have produced some truly magnificent icons, such as the Colosseum, as well as many charming gimmicks, like the World's Largest Brick.

touchpad is good for bringing up menu's / sub menu's For anything else it would be a gimmick and I'm glad it's not being used as a gimmick like most nintendo controllers...

I do believe the power of the Xbox 1x is a gimmick for marketing, let's not pretend like Nintendo hasn't done this as well with varying results.

Underneath the gimmick it's a solid and very enjoyable RTS but take it as a whole and it becomes something even better.

I'm sure the Switch will be a reasonable success when all is said and done, largely because they've finally found a way to make their formula of cheaping out on hardware to focus on a gimmick appeal to core gamers, which is by making it a gimmick that is actually pretty handy and neat, as well as providing a solid lineup of games.

It wouldn't be so much of a hit for Nintendo's core single player titles, but games that focus on WiiU controller gimmicks and have multiplayer wouldn't fare as well.

I don't think motion control as a gimmick but as something that gets better every generation it passes.

If it's somewhere close to the PS4 in terms of power and can be picked up and taken on the go, includes the next generation of DS games as well as Nintendo's console titles which both carry an incredible jump in visuals and you then throw in some new hardware gimmicks then to me they've got an ace in the hole.

This is probably one of the best creative and appropriate marketing gimmicks I've seen in a while, though it's not as cute as hiring a white puppy.

The simplistic platforming gameplay itself lacks variety as well, and the game's encouragement to spend more time in a single level often backfires by showing how stale the area's gimmicks can get within a few minutes.

There are other UFC 3 game modes, such as the usual standard on and offline quick matches, as well as a few other gimmicks such as knockout, which takes my fighting game approach to the logical extreme.

The stages themselves often feel a bit tedious and uninspired as well, once you've gotten over the aforementioned gimmicks.

While Apple is quick to brag about the processing power of the iPhone 4 and iPad 2, the resulting games still feature the same kinds of finger - swiping gameplay gimmicks that we saw three years ago, as well as virtual * on - screen buttons and D - pads, which are awful.

The trailer shows off the new stages and several of their gimmicks as well as a lot of new brand new unseen heat actions from SpeedWagon / N`Doul and Maria.

What's more, not only does it cover the exact same games shown at yesterday's Japanese Nintendo Direct, but it has a few other «gimmicks» present as well.

@RubyEclipse so from what i can get is that sega purchased the rights to the extra life track nice oh and i love the way the minecart is being used here only as a section and i like the torch gimmick though next time im really excepting to see better physics and more like the classics unlike the rush engine oh and cant wait to see what you did to the pinball act

Thus far it appears that the main «gimmick» of the game, if it can be called that, is the use of very simplistic depth during gameplay, meaning most of the time you'll be in the foreground but sometimes you'll be forced to hop around in the background as well.

Doesn't it seem like, just with motion control, when done well, it's because of quality game design, but when they focus on any one technological aspect it tends to come off as a gimmick and is ignored as such.

As Todd Howard put it: «As far as stupid gimmicks go, this is the best fucking one I've ever seen.&raquAs Todd Howard put it: «As far as stupid gimmicks go, this is the best fucking one I've ever seen.&raquAs far as stupid gimmicks go, this is the best fucking one I've ever seen.&raquas stupid gimmicks go, this is the best fucking one I've ever seen.»