Sentence examples for for a gimmick from inspiring English sources

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When I brought this group of 200 together, I was looking for a gimmick or something.

Coleman Hawkins growled in 1964: "Those guys are looking for a gimmick, a short cut.

Marketers are always looking for a gimmick to cut through the clutter.

And the only thing worse than feeling like you're being asked to pay for a gimmick, is feeling like you're being asked to pay for a gimmick that's disguised as a premium add-on – kind of like those extended warranties at an electronics store.

The way Laurinas Sheshkus tells it, the creative types at LNK TV were searching last summer for a gimmick to rise above the airwaves clutter when someone proposed staging a beauty contest in the women's prison in this stolid town.

And so, I, as you, won't even bother to read this because I'm never going to make these colossally complicated dishes, which, anyway, sound as if they're a short-lived fad dreamed up by a lunatic P.R. foodie who put everything into Enron and is hysterically searching for a gimmick to lure patrons back into restaurants and who knows knees won't do it.

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"It's a bit of a gimmick, for people in bars and in clubs.

Verdict: Mr. Forbes's campaign, which later inspired various "Saturday Night Live" parodies, was generally viewed as something of a gimmick for his focus on the flat tax.

It's a bit of a gimmick for the show to always operate under the pretense of casting unlikely performers, but Season 1 felt so novel that the series clearly needs a hook to bolster the storytelling.

You can't really blame HTC for embracing a gimmick.

Augmented reality has a reputation for being a gimmick.

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