Sentences with phrase «utterly gratuitous»
As Carraway — whose reminiscences Luhrmann puts in an utterly gratuitous framing device of a sanitorium therapy session — Tobey Maguire is his usual recessive presence, barely registering as either a dynamic part of the events he describes or their watchful witness.
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Utterly gratuitous photo of the Extra Grumpy Cat When Barack Obama crossed the nerd - culture streams in his Jedi Mind Meld moment last week, he created great joy on the internets: by combining the Star Wars Jedi Mind Trick and the Star Trek Vulcan Mind Meld into a single entity, he not only caused...
(It is utterly gratuitous to deduce from the words «I fell upon my face» and the prophet's occasional trances that Ezekiel was a cataleptic.)
A second unique character of Christianity is its constant advocacy of sheer altruism, utterly gratuitous self - sacrifice, modeled on Christ, who chose freely what for us is fate.
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In Christ we can see revealed with total clarity how the whole cosmos, and every aspect of creaturely existence, depends on the gratuitous love, yet utterly coherent Wisdom of the Creator.
As a result, the status of signs set up by humankind is utterly uncertain, gratuitous, and vain.
In this respect, God's love for others and the creation and redemption that are its two essential aspects must themselves always be contingent and so utterly free and gratuitous.