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Example sentences for: gimmicks
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If you're going in for shameless promotional gimmicks, why limit yourself to a century?
Clinton criticized the military bill for including budget gimmicks and pork-barrel projects but said that he could not "allow our national security needs to be held hostage by this budget battle."
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.
A separate Post roundup of the budget talks (run inside) notes that despite early promises from both parties, almost nothing has been done to reform Medicare and that the parties' pledges to protect Social Security largely amount to accounting gimmicks.
"Taking his cue from writers like Don DeLillo and Philip K. Dick, who successfully blurred the lines between serious and popular novels, Lethem is like a kid in a candy store, grabbing all the tasty plots and gimmicks he can" (Albert Mobilio, the New York Times Book Review ). The heart of the book is the protagonist's affliction and his constant verbal outbursts, which form "a barrage of sheer rhetorical invention that has tour de force written all over it; it's an amazing stunt, and, just when you think the well is running dry, Lethem keeps on topping himself" ( Kirkus Reviews ). A few call the punning Joycean literary outbursts unrealistic, but most just take them in stride, admiring the "highly artificial, flamboyantly bizarre world that constantly upstages its genre format ...
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