"As somebody who has traditionally relied upon cheap gags and even cheaper effects to get by," he said, "when I was stripped of them all, it was an act of faith, really".
Many theatre makers use it to easy but cheap effect.
But why on earth would a loudspeaker stop except to generate a cheap effect?
When sensationalism, a cheap effect, substitutes for truly disturbing art seriously presented, we should be deeply bothered.
Near the end Mr. Berger walked off the stage and began to play from behind the audience: what might have seemed a cheap effect proved surprisingly subtle.
The point, it seems, is to achieve something more than mere beauty; but his playing avoids cheap effect to such a degree that it sometimes seems to miss its effect altogether.
It's a portrait — a rather dull one, ultimately — of a young, earnest intern, and a writer who is a total jerk, or at least posturing as one for cheap effect.
Never one to dazzle with cheap effect, Mr. Kremer chose to repeat the Silvestrov as an encore, ending the evening with its slowly drawn chords fading into a long capacious silence.
To engineer synthetic emotions for cheap effect is bad enough; even worse, Baldwin says, is the sentimentalist who believes her own schlock, confusing the imitation of emotion for emotion itself.
It's a cheap effect, because Lily is not a scarlet woman (or even a rebel) in her own mind, and even those who tarnish her reputation know it.
