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Example sentences for: gimmicks

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His denunciation of gimmicks notwithstanding, the spot offers one of its own--a distracting back-and-forth between color and black-and-white that's pure ploy.
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.
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.
The Post quotes experts who think that any subsequent budget agreement will tap in, but via "enough budget gimmicks to obscure the picture."