This is an understandable ploy of someone writing for children.
It's a familiar ploy, of course: cast a name and watch the ratings go skyward.
The pilot episode of "Bette" operates around a familiar sitcom ploy of mismatched expectations.
Crying that the "other guy" is worse is the ploy of a schoolyard bully.
The networks are also reusing a popular advertising ploy of the past: the live commercial.
Expired Medicine What is a sell-by date but a marketing ploy of American consumerism?
Anyway, that's the romantic ploy of female fruit flies, for whom a dinner date is the ultimate rush.
This inhibits all peace-making, including Mr Barak's ploy of playing the Syrians against the Palestinians and vice versa.
He also introduced the propaganda ploy of the martyrdom video, which would become a signature of Al Qaeda.
Eschewing the usual ploy of playing in additional 2D screens to bump up the grosses, Piranha played in 3D only.
Nathan McCullum shunned the obvious ploy of giving Ross Taylor the strike, swinging wildly and missing the next two balls.
