You see a long ride to oblivion when you've worn the gimmick out, a future of one-night stands getting crummier. |
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This gimmick blurs the clarity of the storyline without adding any appreciable benefit. |
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Random accidents and everyday tragedies become just another ratings-boosting gimmick, filling airtime before the next disaster strikes. |
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Despite a range of food experts claiming that the new product is nothing more than a gimmick, most said they would not mind a spoonful or two. |
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It's based on a gimmick, here the use of flags, exuberantly colored and rippling silkily as they're manipulated by dancers on the run. |
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Give this girl a gimmick, leave her to fiddle and footer about with it into the wee small hours and, in no time, she's smitten. |
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So there is a bit of responsibility on my part not to treat it as a gimmick. |
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Quality Control gets points for originality though, and not the kind that borders on gimmick to hold it all together. |
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The gimmick is part of the company's latest venture to target the UK's 3.2m students in higher education. |
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Those who would mistake the storm for a lame gimmick or a half-baked attempt at breaching the fourth wall are missing the point. |
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Ironically, the story is about some workers whose jobs were offshored, who came up with the gimmick of selling themselves on eBay. |
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Anderson does hold the paranoid, hermetic mood for all 100 minutes and Bale is impressive, even without the thin-man gimmick. |
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It may look like a cheap gimmick to some but it adds that refreshing slice of humour that is so missing from other top hip-hop acts. |
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It was one of the most beautiful flavour experiences I've ever enjoyed and most definitely not a cheffy gimmick. |
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The gimmick was an electro-magnetic strip buried in the road that the street sensors homed in on to guide the cars along by computer. |
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This kind of body modification is so severe that it is hard to just palm it off as an attention getting gimmick. |
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No flash in the pan, no gimmick needed, they back up their chops with integrity and experience. |
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The restaurant's gimmick is a circular aquarium, behind 10 ft-high glass surrounding diners. |
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If you introduce a pre-show element, be sure it relates to the show and doesn't come across as a cheap marketing gimmick. |
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For the most part, it's a fairly routine mystery-suspense series with a supernatural gimmick, executed competently but unremarkably. |
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The entire film is reduced to an unsatisfying gimmick, and one is left somewhere between perplexity and infuriation. |
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It seems a contrivance, a gimmick designed to get attention, which it does. |
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Time as the fourth dimension is basically just a mathematical gimmick to make some relativity equations easier to work with. |
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This sudden shift in the focus of American politics should not be dismissed merely as a cynical election gimmick. |
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Cynics dismissed the collection, which garnered a lot of attention in the literary pages, as a publishing gimmick. |
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This is mainly a fund-raising gimmick for a couple of right of center interest groups. |
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His stubborn puritanical simplicity was sometimes dismissed as a publicity gimmick. |
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A traveling showman added a gimmick to his sales by vending cards through machines. |
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Critics have wasted no time dismissing the scheme as a gimmick or proof that the government have run out of ideas. |
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He denied the scheme was a gimmick which would have little effect on the rocketing street crime problem. |
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However, many journalists and others were almost certain that it was a publicity-seeking gimmick. |
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He challenged the Government to reveal the full cost to taxpayers of what he termed a publicity gimmick. |
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The ban is more of a political gimmick to create an electoral agenda by prospective candidates. |
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It was not a marketing gimmick but an honest attempt at introducing to young users products made by differently abled people. |
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When it comes to fat-loss supplements, the market has been flooded with gimmick after gimmick. |
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He made everyone think he is the man, and he is still playing the kayfabe way, living the gimmick outside the ring. |
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What can be said at this stage is that regionalism should not be dismissed as a party political gimmick. |
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It is more like a sales gimmick which targets the poor and uneducated. |
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The proposal to cut taxes was just an election gimmick to win votes. |
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Mistakenly live mic, or intentional gimmick to drum up excitement for the show? |
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He doesn't believe that her renouncement of the PM's post was a gimmick. |
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Critics praised his crooning, even if they regarded it little more than a gimmick. |
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Daylyt downplayed the gimmick, later claiming on Twitter that it was his way of saying he was finished with battle rap. |
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Bait-and-switch was the whole glorious gimmick of high-low editing, and I am happily guilty on every count. |
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The market is saturated with this sort of heavy, but melodic guitar-based rock, and there isn't really a wrinkle or gimmick to help attract listeners. |
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All joking aside, what was once considered an expensive gimmick is on the verge of going mainstream. |
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I think that, while an impressive gimmick, it is very undersold. |
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I dig 'em, but I betcha I'd be digging them a lot less this week had I been subjected to a full hour of that vocal harmonizing gimmick they always do. |
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The clock-watching gimmick is audacious but not entirely original. |
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Some called it a gimmick, but Townshend says he knew it was a turning point. |
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I consider bi-wiring a gimmick unless you are going to use two amplifiers. |
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The place has a gimmick for ordering the food which works particularly well in that particular restaurant. You order at a cash desk and then they give you a pager. |
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The metaphor that America is like a garden is not a gimmick, but powerful refutation of neoclassical economics. |
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Never mind the Congressional gimmick of reorganizing the INS, surely we are long past due for a housecleaning of our immigration bureaucracy, starting at the top. |
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What once seemed a crafty producer's gimmick now sounds more like the imaginary friend of a shy dude who needed someone to talk to in the studio while he chain-smoked blunts. |
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More likely, Nichols sensed his dramatic gimmick wasn't panning out, and so took refuge in the inscrutability of artsiness. |
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But other parents and some educators have criticized it as preprofessionalism run amok or a marketing gimmick. |
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But environmentalists branded the Virgin flight a gimmick, saying biofuels could be causing more harm than good. |
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What remains an insulting accounting gimmick does not protect the rights of Americans with sincere conscientious objections. |
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As for the register, it is a gimmick and doesn't address the root problem. |
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Alfie's to camera commentary is retained, but you never get the same sense of it being a confidante, more of a gimmick that quickly becomes smarmily smug and irritating. |
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But can it be a vote-catching gimmick of the PPP rulers who are, in the first place, responsible for vitiating the business prospects and lowering the annual GDP growth. |
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Hilarious, precarious you Talibani confused, imbellic mimic of a gimmick. |
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And the honor did not derive from some stupefacient gimmick like race. |
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It proves, once again, that we shoppers are suckers for a gimmick. |
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Every wrestler needs a gimmick, and now Blassie had a catchphrase. |
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That is absofreakinlutely the best Frellin Frackin' gimmick Ive seen. |
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The other gimmick was a pair of roller skates shaped like Corsas knocked up by Vauxhall itself, to publicise a groovy roller-skating event later this month. |
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The contest was a gimmick to get people to sign up for their mailing list. |
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Hendrix had watched Butch Snipes play with his teeth in Seattle and by now Alphonso 'Baby Boo' Young, the other guitarist in the band, was performing this guitar gimmick. |
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I thought of writing to you to find out if I'm the only one who is wondering if I got short-changed, or if this is a gimmick by shops to make a quick buck. |
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