Gimcrackery used in a sentence

Gimcrackery in a sentence as a noun

Maybe there was a purpose in the novel's context beyond being a strange bit of parallel-worlds gimcrackery. I must've missed it.

And, soon enough, in the BSDs. It is hard to get a sense of how janky all this is, or how amazing it is that all this Rube Goldberg gimcrackery can be made to work the wonders it is seen to do all day, every day. It's not just a dancing bear, it's a bear on the Bolshoi stage!

Our programs run much faster with such hardware acceleration gimcrackery, but we can no longer reason about the effect of a prospective change, and must resort to measuring. Measuring, we don't know what effects are or are not in play in different runs.

Also, I think, that it embodies style-over-substance in web design: lots of empty space, lots of unnecessary scrolling, lots of cute but pointless gimcrackery.

In all cases it's a losing proposition for most naive participants, but there's enough gimcrackery that naive participants can think they'll be the one to beat the odds. The one case in which it arguably wouldn't be the same is if they were playing a positive-sum game, as with long-term equity investment.