1.   An incredible number of site producers believe they can win hearts and mouseclicks by elaborate multimedia stunts and smug attempts at hipness.

2.   Cruise is dashing, convincingly desperate, and as good at the elaborate stunts as he is at character development.

3.   His orchestration of the elaborate stunts and firepower is genuinely thrilling, but it is as a director of human emotion that Harlin really succeeds.

4.   She scampers around like a woodland sprite, laying out elaborate stunts and practical jokes as payback for those who get on the wrong side of her buddies.

5.   Such elaborate stunts are the kind of marketing most authors only dream about, but Eggers insisted it made no difference to him.

6.   You have the queasy sense that the whole thing is just an elaborate stunt, and in this case an exploitative one.

7.   Characters bumble about with no sense of reason or logic in the service of elaborate stunts staged for their own sake.

8.   The elaborate stunt took Copperfield seven years to develop.