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Example sentences for: gimmicks

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The demagogic gimmicks get ever more desperate and empty.
There are two classes of Star Trek scripts: the Brannon Braga kind, which feature spatial-temporal gimmicks and Generation X banter; and the Michael Piller kind, which focus on interspecies political coups and earthbound (ground-bound?)
Critics say it "respects the audience's intelligence" with well-drawn characters and a "healthy cynicism" about lawyering (Caryn James, the New York Times ). But it also uses unfunny gimmicks, particularly a running gag of dramatizing, on-screen, the protagonist's fantasies.
Those new gadgets and gimmicks the IOC put into place so a scandal like last year's doesn't occur again are so much smoke and mirrors.
But a subtle sport was emerging from the gimmicks and carnage.