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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For the most part, it's a fairly routine mystery-suspense series with a supernatural gimmick, executed competently but unremarkably. |
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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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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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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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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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The restaurant's gimmick is a circular aquarium, behind 10 ft-high glass surrounding diners. |
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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 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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No flash in the pan, no gimmick needed, they back up their chops with integrity and experience. |
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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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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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The entire film is reduced to an unsatisfying gimmick, and one is left somewhere between perplexity and infuriation. |
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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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Random accidents and everyday tragedies become just another ratings-boosting gimmick, filling airtime before the next disaster strikes. |
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This gimmick blurs the clarity of the storyline without adding any appreciable benefit. |
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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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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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It was one of the most beautiful flavour experiences I've ever enjoyed and most definitely not a cheffy gimmick. |
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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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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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When it comes to fat-loss supplements, the market has been flooded with gimmick after gimmick. |
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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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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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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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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 is mainly a fund-raising gimmick for a couple of right of center interest groups. |
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It seems a contrivance, a gimmick designed to get attention, which it does. |
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His stubborn puritanical simplicity was sometimes dismissed as a publicity gimmick. |
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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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Quality Control gets points for originality though, and not the kind that borders on gimmick to hold it all together. |
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Some may argue that the Rhodes resurgence is a passing fancy, perhaps even a gimmick. |
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It is more like a sales gimmick which targets the poor and uneducated. |
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In short, an excellent idea, without a doubt a bit of a gimmick if you are a real musician, but it will amuse everyone else. |
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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 satanic aspect is important in your music, is this a gimmick or a real ideology? |
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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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Isn't the Tory idea to introduce right-to-buy social housing just a gimmick which is largely unworkable? |
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More importantly, how can girl-centred advocacy be saved from becoming a gimmick? |
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Grant Shapps, the Tories' housing spokesperson and MP for Welwyn Hatfield, dismissed eco-towns as a gimmick. |
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It is considered by many as a gimmick to keep the political leaders included as a token gesture. |
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As I said when I began my remarks, we are talking about a gimmick on the eve of an election. |
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Anything less and you are talking about a publicity gimmick, not development. |
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Yet the Liberal Party is at the very heart of the sponsorship gimmick, and we all know that. |
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The feather is much more than just a gimmick, more than just a prop for controlling speaking time. |
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If the ICC is to be more than a mere gimmick, then we must establish an international public power, and therefore a world government! |
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Years back, the Mozart effect was more a marketing gimmick than a scientific proposition. |
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The Other Sister is shameless in its use of mental retardation as a gimmick, a prop and a plot device. |
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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 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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The clock-watching gimmick is audacious but not entirely original. |
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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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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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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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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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I think that, while an impressive gimmick, it is very undersold. |
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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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When you learn the secret, you'll be just as impressed as your audiences. A simple gimmick, used in a diabolically clever way, has enabled us to develop this brand-new effect. |
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A practical little gimmick is the peelable adhesive strip at the back of the cable, allowing it to be installed on the wall or underneath the carpet rail without additional aids. |
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It's an old journalist gimmick that goes back at least twenty years and that younger generations of journalists have picked up and used themselves over the years. |
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The concept has the blitheness of a vision and the ingenuity of a gimmick. |
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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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More likely, Nichols sensed his dramatic gimmick wasn't panning out, and so took refuge in the inscrutability of artsiness. |
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And it never became a mannerism, never a 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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The owners of four Montreal retail stores commissioned it as an advertising gimmick, and had the names of their establishments worked into the surrounding design and printed on the front and back of the card. |
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As part of an expensive marketing gimmick, audiences at the time were provided with their own masks, complete with anaglyphic 3D lenses that allowed viewers to experience his dizzying hallucinations. |
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Perhaps you really could pull this off by drawing on your psychic powers, but when you've an off-day there's always the gimmick in the table to help you out! |
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In Poland, these include wastefully untargeted social benefits such as early retirement. Talking about a quick move to the euro may be a good gimmick for politicians, but the practical difficulties are huge. |
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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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Here's a gimmick that you'll always have handy. |
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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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The proposal to cut taxes was just an election gimmick to win votes. |
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Hilarious, precarious you Talibani confused, imbellic mimic of a gimmick. |
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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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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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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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As for the register, it is a gimmick and doesn't address the root problem. |
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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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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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That is absofreakinlutely the best Frellin Frackin' gimmick Ive seen. |
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The contest was a gimmick to get people to sign up for their mailing list. |
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And the honor did not derive from some stupefacient gimmick like race. |
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