Sentences with phrase «by gratuitous»

As they tell the main story, they increasingly retreat into tedious instances of someone getting kidnapped, Batman having to outwit 10 armed guards in a stealth sequence, and then the Batmobile having to blow up 20 tanks to secure something or other, and then some closed off instance of some gimmicky frippery usually accompanied by a gratuitous difficulty spike.

While others may have bemoaned the lack of fighting action in the DOA Xtreme Volleyball series, I found a great amount of enjoyment in the slightly subdued volleyball action accompanied by gratuitous fan service.

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.

There were fundamental biology standards at play here — my student was grappling with the sheer amount of saturated fat being produced in an animal fed by the gratuitous starches provided in modern feed corn.

Thus, his diehard fans are apt to be satisfied by the gratuitous indulgence in the prurient, the profane and potty humor, while others are likely to be left scratching your head and asking, «Is that it?»

As is the case with his last few books, Looker is a bully pulpit — albeit one not given to Crichton's insufferable conservative leanings of late — rendered transparent by its gratuitous cockteasing: it dovetails from one alarmist exposé to the next (extreme makeovers!

From the British couple who misunderstand the meaning of their RV's cruise control button to the ice fishermen whose dog fetches a lit stick of dynamite to the loser who decides to test the strength of his high rise's floor to ceiling glass window, The Darwin Awards is likely to find an audience only in those sickos titillated by gratuitous depictions of fatalities.

A one dimensional, pointless film propped up by gratuitous violence instead of a solid plot.

The worst harm done by gratuitous, judgmental proclamations that «AIDS is God's damning curse upon homosexuals» is precisely in the tremendous temptation on the part of the AIDS sufferer to believe it, thus raising one more obstacle to faith in God's all - sufficient grace.

Not exact matches

«Simply by being labelled a specialist,» Nass writes, «you will be perceived as more compelling, even if the label is obviously gratuitous and irrelevant.»

There's Arkansas, bounty hunters, snakes real, human, and symbolic, being rescued from a snake pit by a very errant knight, a display of the gratuitous slaughter that comes when you take the law in your own hands, a deep commentary on place, displacement, the state of nature, and the techno - forces of the modern world and modern government, solidly American thoughts on law, property, justice, and keeping your word, and so forth and so on.

Fewer rescuers than non-rescuers reported being slapped, spanked, kicked, and beaten or having their hair pulled by parents; 3) Many more non-rescuers than rescuers perceived punishment as gratuitous — a cathartic release of aggressiveness by parents; and 4) Rescuers most frequently used the word explained to describe parental approaches to correction and discipline.

If ministers of the gospel indulge in gratuitous virtue - signaling by promoting the worst of black legends, as if the sum total of Christianity's impact on world history were embodied by «the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition,» why would anyone come to their churches or listen to whatever's being offered there by way of I'm - OK - You're - OK therapeutic balm?

I never appreciated his use of gratuitous nude pictures he used earlier on to increase his numbers... but I saw it for what it was... I can also see why my husband and I'm sure others, would be offended by what they see & read here if this is not their view of church & religion.

It can however be deflated quite easily by changing «evil» to something more tangible but just as problematic; gratuitous suffering for example.

«Therefore the Church gives thanks for each and every woman: for mothers, for sisters, for wives; for women consecrated to God in virginity; for women dedicated to the many human beings who await the gratuitous love of another person; for women who watch over the human persons in the family, which is the fundamental sign of the human community; for women who work professionally, and who at times are burdened by a great social responsibility; for «perfect» women and for «weak» women - for all women as they have come forth from the heart of God in all the beauty and richness of their femininity; as they have been embraced by his eternal love; as, together with men, they are pilgrims on this earth, which is the temporal «homeland» of all people and is transformed sometimesinto a «valley of tears»; as they assume, together with men, a common responsibility for the destiny of humanity according to daily necessities and according to that definitive destiny which the human family has in God himself, in the bosom of the ineffable Trinity.»

, the myth of why we [in the West] are evil,» thus giving terrorists «gratuitous fuel for self - regeneration, fulfilling their prophecies by providing them with martyrs and justifications.»

Grace by definition is gratuitous, but that does not mean that it is an optional extra or super-addition to our nature.

As a result, the status of signs set up by humankind is utterly uncertain, gratuitous, and vain.

The statement that one can be religious without attending church is seen by some as a new, gratuitous assault on organized religion.

The explicit reference to Jesus Christ becomes in this view gratuitous in the original sense of the word — something which is not demanded by or needed for the struggle [of socioeconomic liberation]... The reference to Jesus Christ does not add an «extra» to the historical struggle but is totally and without rest identified with it.

Rather, they are unfortunately gratuitous, since neither there nor elsewhere does Whitehead offer the slightest clue as to what he understands by «upward evolution» or the «modern doctrine.»

Now we shall have a complete definition of faith, if we say, that it is a steady and certain knowledge of the Divine benevolence towards us, which, being founded on the truth of the gratuitous promise in Christ, is both revealed to our minds, and confirmed to our hearts, by the Holy Spirit.67

The continuous analysis of programme content by communication researchers such as George Gerbner shows that the levels of gratuitous violence in U.S. television are as high as ever.

But what could we possibly mean by calling God perfectly good other than that God would, if possible, prevent all gratuitous evil — all things that would make the universe worse than it would have otherwise been?

Hasker's real position, in other words, seems to be that although at one level the prima facie evils of this world are gratuitous evils, they at another level are not, because their very gratuitousness is intended by God to evoke our moral efforts to overcome them.

Having added the second issue, which deals not with the proposed criterion as such but with an imagined situation in which we could know that God is abiding by it, Hasker then argues that God should not prevent all gratuitous evils.

Like a certain Untolder or two, they prefer a certain minimum amount of gratuitous violence that is not permitted by the laws.

It's not a gratuitous flash of skin because it actually serves a design function by creating that uber - flattering V - shape at her waist.

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...

a) the value of any imported goods; b) the value of any imported services, including management services; c) any amounts remitted out of Zambia whether unrequited (gratuitous) or otherwise; d) the amounts, if any, deposited abroad but generated by a person resident in Zambia from the supply of goods produced or services rendered in Zambia; e) loans granted to non-residents; f) trade credits from non-residents; g) investments made in the form of equity outside Zambia by persons resident in Zambia; and h) investments made in the form of debt securities outside Zambia by persons resident in Zambia.

In a letter responding to the E.P.A.'s Enck, Acting DEC Commissioner Marc Gerstman sent her a shirt commemorating the event and said he was «deeply distressed» by her «gratuitous comments.»

The optics of this gratuitous behavior by the NPP and its flagbearer is too ugly; these actions have the appearance of a conspiracy.

As most readers of this essay surely know from experience, anything that undermines that motivation — pressure to produce, meddling by management, fear of sanctions, anxiety, resentment, even gratuitous performance bonuses — worsens work performance.

Not to be a curmudgeon, but I walked out of that movie... the nudity and sex scenes were even more gratuitous and tedious than HBO, also compounded by the French prerequisite of nudity and sex whether it helps the plot or not.

By the way, the gratuitous male nudity and cutesie «gay» scenes in almost every TV show and movie is not enlightening.

Lost In Beijing is most noted for several thumb - nosing gratuitous sex scenes that got the movie reprimanded by the censors back home.

Ramsay seems to be offering herself — backed by a universally admiring media — as a female candidate for the Scorsese - Tarantino school of perverse, gratuitous and inexplicable brutality.

The best performance was given by the CGI animators, but again, seemed more akin to the brutal comic books than the toys or cartoons with gratuitous dismemberment aplenty.

One scene is so gratuitous it's almost funny, Lawrence lying naked and spread - eagled on an assembly desk, only her genitals obscured by a conveniently aligned elbow.

Sure, there are gratuitous murders by the bucketload, more deus ex machina's than you can shake a stick at and the whole black egg thing is a little too close to the 2001 - A-Space-Odyssey-bone, i.e the monoliths,,, not the mention the falling pink stars,,, which may be a metaphor for something,,, perhaps the disgracing of gay celebrities,,, I've no idea.

The film engages both the head and heart and should be seen by anyone looking for a thoughtful respite from the summer's car chases, hyperactive aliens and gratuitous

The film engages both the head and heart and should be seen by anyone looking for a thoughtful respite from the summer's car chases, hyperactive aliens and gratuitous bloodstained mayhem.

Once you've got To's cliché - ridden plot figured out, all that's left for you to do is sit back and relish the ballet - like bloodsport unabashedly served up by this flick's stylized fight sequences, reminiscent of the eye - pleasing, if gratuitous, gore of such over-stimulation mavens as John Woo and Sam Peckinpah.

The storyline - which follows a compulsive gambler (Jay Baruchel's Andy) as he's given one hour to live by Australian hitman Reuben (Randy Quaid)- has been augmented with a whole host of gratuitous elements, with Andy's pointless detours (including a visit to a fast - food chicken joint and a quest to find a prostitute that looks like Rosie Perez) certainly ranking high on the list of Cole's unfortunate transgressions.

Rather than playing up the gratuitous pointlessness of cash - in sequels like itself, however, Craven's latest merely adheres to the very convoluted whodunit formula (and mounds of inane exposition) that it outwardly addresses via a from - the - grave video recording by Jamie Kennedy's genre know - it - all.

DVD Extras Audio commentary, deleted scenes introduced by the director, The Hair That Ate Hollywood featurette, Perfect Day music video by Hoku, trivia, gratuitous advert for the soundtrack, and a theatrical trailer.

«Tales is a hellmouth full of talent sure to become a classic played each Halloween by the horror faithful, paired with a gratuitous amount of candy corn and chocolate.

Once you've got To's plot figured out, all that's left for you to do is sit back and relish the ballet - like bloodsport unabashedly served up by this flick's stylized fight sequences, reminiscent of the eye - pleasing, if gratuitous, gore of such over-stimulation mavens as John Woo and Sam Peckinpah.

Ted is hobbled by a labored third act and a subplot involving a demented loner played by Giovanni Ribisi that is so ragingly gratuitous, it almost feels like an homage to the famously unnecessary diamond - smuggling subplots of the»80s, but Ted is so consistently, even explosively funny and oddly good - natured throughout that it really doesn't need a plot at all, let alone an even - less - welcome chase scene.