What is "gimmicks"

Usage examples of "gimmicks".

She looked so pornographic in her gimmicks that I wanted her to take them off again, or better, much better, push bits of them aside.

The Vrenka had a lot of gimmicks in the war but we licked most of them.

Ugly arrives here with enough gimmicks and telepathic what-have-yous to conquer the entire world in six weeks flat, coffee breaks included.

They had one or two other gimmicks which the sonic boys had put on a tape: normal breathing, a heartbeat and similar natural noises.

There were, for example, all these invisible gimmicks in the sky and, I have no doubt, countless other complicated mechanisms.

When those airborne gimmicks blew, there was no telepathic beam to turn them into psychotics or us into Stinkers.

On the other hand, since those sky gimmicks were knocked out, there have been marked changes.

This complaint, we have since discovered, was caused by the constant irritation of the telepathic gimmicks on certain sensitive minds.

You must have contacts and, now that the gimmicks are gone, you will be less mutually repugnant to each other.

Sheckley uses the old Sense-of-Wonder philosophy with all the traditional gimmicks attached, but in his peculiar never-never land the machines live a life of their own, and the result comes actually much closer to wild fantasy than the thundering space ship armadas of E.