Sentence examples for a familiar gambit from inspiring English sources
Interrupting the flow of abstraction with a single representational image is also a familiar gambit of Mr. Richter's.
This is a familiar gambit -- the government sends out a ludicrous first draft as a trial balloon, then makes cosmetic concessions and ends up with the draconian measure it intended all along.
Mr. Palminteri is a playwright and director as well as a dependable actor, and if his familiar gambit helps underwrite his other artistic activities, who can complain?
("Such a sweet face the Kureishi girl is having now," his mother tells him in a familiar maternal gambit).
"OF COURSE I'm all in favour of clean energy, especially wind power, but…" That is a familiar opening gambit in a new sort of political storm, raging ever more fiercely in corners of the world where electric power comes, or may soon come, from flashing blades rather than blazing furnaces.The odd thing about conflicts over wind is that, usually, each side claims to be greener than the other.
I've got no problem with that idea, a familiar Paisley gambit.
In one scene, a biology professor who clearly enjoys Crichton's sympathy delivers a four-page-long speech on the perils of stem cell research, beginning with the familiar gambit that any suggestion such treatments might soon cure degenerative diseases is a cruel fraud "intended to ensure funding for researchers, at the expense of false hopes for the seriously ill".
It was a sort of grave; a belated continuation of an already familiar artistic gambit, but audacious and raw.
A familiar enough business.
A familiar cycle continues.
