Sentences with phrase «about gratuitous»

Why would I care enough about a gratuitous comment to ruin someone's day or endanger someone's job?

I won't write about gratuitous sexual abuse of children.

But, at its best, horror cinema is rarely about the gratuitous presentation of violent acts.

Jean - Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir wrote about gratuitous crimes as acts of existential purity.

Not exact matches

Instead of gratuitous product slides in the PowerPoint presentation, spend most of the time talking about buyers.

The Chief Justice, in dissent, complained about the majority's «entirely gratuitous» aspersions against supporters of traditional marriage: «It is one thing for the majority to conclude that the Constitution protects a right to same - sex marriage; it is something else to portray everyone who does not share the majority's «better informed understanding» as bigoted.»

The first couple of books start out as typical «solve - this - murder» sort of books (without being gory or cruel or gratuitous, it's more about the story and the characters)-- very satisfying Saturday night read — but as the books go forward, the layers and complex storytelling becomes even more clear and right around book three or four you begin to realise that everything is connected and everything means something and something major is unfolding and OMG MUST KEEP READING.

Now, a logical, thinking person would watch something like this and know that despite its gratuitous title, it is not about homeschooling.

Hoyden About Town has had several previous threads on Pratchett's work: Belated Friday Hoydens: The Witches of Lancre, Gratuitous Pratchett Appreciation thread: Crivens!

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But unlike a lot of content on the web (i.e porn), this blog post isn't gratuitous for the sake of it — this information may prove invaluable for someone else who is perhaps nervous about having their first child or having a home birth.

Responding to a series of written questions from a Liberal Democrat councillor, Billings said: «To speak about «a premeditated ambush» is not helpful and seems designed to heighten emotions in a quite gratuitous fashion.

The unprecedented targeting of research grants strikes scientists as particularly gratuitous: for a small savings, only about $ 80 million, NASA is causing a huge disruption.

If we took all the dark humor, the protagonist rudeness and the gratuitous violence out of Deadpool: The Videogame, we would be talking about a worthless game.

What I find most disturbing about DOAX3's release is not the gratuitous sexualized content that became the focus of its western press, but the biased and vendetta - driven journalism surrounding it here in the west.

Everything about it is worthless and gratuitous.

What's appealing about Bond is precisely its unhip classicism — its promise of clean, crisp excitement delivered without the interference of whiplash - inducing camera pyrotechnics, attention - deficient editing patterns, gratuitous color tinting and / or ear - splitting rock ballads.

The unrated version only adds about 8minutes of extended scenes / dialogue, but no gratuitous nudity or language is added as might be expected.

There is nothing gratuitous or gory about what the Coens show onscreen, but there is one scene in particular that has been named as one of the scariest in reviewer's lists and I am inclined to agree.

Refreshingly even handed and never lowering to gratuitous extremes, The Queen offers a very compelling drama that will leave audiences with something to talk about afterward — and even young viewers may be surprised at just how intriguing this story is.

Zombeavers (R for gory violence, crude humor, graphic sexuality, gratuitous nudity and pervasive profanity) High attrition - rate, horror comedy about a group of college kids whose plans for a wild weekend of debauchery at a riverside cabin is ruined by the arrival of a horde of bloodthirsty zombie beavers.

In the past, Emilia has had to deal with uncomfortable questions about how she, as a woman, justified the arguably gratuitous female nudity and gruesome violence for which Game of Thrones initially made headlines.

It's merely a product to try to capitalize on the mega-blockbusters in a similar vein that came before — the way they inject gratuitous product placements should tell you what's in the minds of those who produced this film (Are fish really all that crazy about Krispy Kreme donuts?)

But after about 15 minutes of scenery chewing, gratuitous nudity and spontaneous eruptions of violence, it becomes clearer that director Paul Schrader knows what he's doing.

However, this character study, ultimately about the forgiveness of one's self, is still rough around the edges with a script that veers dangerously towards the shallow at times, in gratuitous moments that are hard to ignore.

The magnum opus of Tommy Wiseau, an eccentric and paranoid Polish immigrant with the looks of a B - movie vampire and a mess of personal issues about women, The Room is nearly an anti-film — an inane and unintentionally surreal soap opera, filled with non sequiturs, confused characters, and gratuitous, anatomically incorrect sex.

JF: I had learned a lot on The Deuce about how to portray the shooting of gratuitous sex scenes.

It doubles down on everything that fans love about the original — from the relentless meta humor to the gratuitous comic - book bloodshed — while also correcting a few of that movie's blatant issues.

Parents should expect war violence, but never to the point of being gratuitous, however some may be concerned about the amount of mild profanities.

While these scenes might seem mostly gratuitous, they do cement the relationship as primarily driven by sexual interests, which explains why the two could end up living together without ever really learning as much about each other as they probably should.

And perhaps most telling of all is that after their gratuitous claim that, «We welcome this statewide conversation about suspension practices.

Mindful of what my mother told me about hoochie mamas and fast cars and how rock «n» roll would poison my brain, I refrain from gratuitous ogling or posing for camera - phone pictures with girls in my lap, because that would be wrong.

You do get the feeling that the F - Pace could use quite a bit more power, though — 380 hp feels just about right here, and the gratuitous noise and power we love from the F - Type are somewhat missing in car that Jaguar claims is «the practical sports car.»

What's most striking about these objects is not their beauty per se but how sheerly gratuitous that beauty is.

«Why do you bury the all - important, crucial fact that AUTHORS DO N'T HAVE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE KINDLE PROGRAM you're writing about,» an anonymous e-mailer told me after dispensing the usual gratuitous insults.

There's plenty of action as Timothy (Jamie Mains) comes out from behind his surly exterior to express his rather juvenile and fumbly love for Jason's mother, Margerie, played by Janie Dee, followed by a gratuitous and cringeworthy scene in which they have violent sex, something Tim then brags about.

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In Ion Maiden, Shelly «Bombshell» Harrison is about to leave a trail of gratuitous gibs all across Neo DC, and that's just fine by me.

In fact, it's an identical feeling — gratuitous bravura technique, no content; painting about nothing; academicism disguised by flash surface.

I sent a final query to the club, saying, «Like Suzie Gilbert, I'm not against hunting, but have deep concerns about seemingly gratuitous slaughter.

His spiels consist entirely of personal anecdote — and again a long, gratuitous whine about me.

There seems to me to be a fair amount of evidence of deliberate promotion of disinformation (for example, the reactions to the CERN Cloud study or the reaction to Mojib Latif's statements about «global cooling), but the assertion of a «campaign» requires an elaboration of evidence, and the use of «dupes and minions» is unnecessary and gratuitous.

[72] In Beaverstock v. Beaverstock, 2011 BCCA 413, the Court addressed the correct approach to the resolution of a dispute about whether a gratuitous advance from a parent to an adult child is a loan or a gift.

His post at FD was about libertarians, nothing to do with me, but it was in that post that he took his gratuitous swipe at me — quite en passant.

The book is neither a lawyer - bashing polemic nor a gratuitous assault on the legal profession but a collection of predictions and observations about a generally honorable profession that is, I argue, on the brink of fundamental transformation.

The comment about mandatory mediation was completely gratuitous.

They are provincial thinkers; they are unaware; they don't follow world events; they don't watch or read the news; they watch stupid movies rife with gratuitous violence; they avoid thinking about anything other than superficial happenings within their tiny cultural milieus; they are babes - in - the - woods, and they don't care about voting.