Sentences with phrase «completely gratuitous»

The comment about mandatory mediation was completely gratuitous.

Still, his apparent antipathy toward Steve M. is a surprise and the comment directed at you, Craig, was completely gratuitous and unjustified.

I thought this was completely gratuitous, an attempt to capture readers who may have gone elsewhere.

One fight scene, set in a pool hall, is completely gratuitous; and Chan's major stunt (sliding down a long banner) is kids» stuff compared to the more outrageous feats he's done in the past.

An ill - advised and completely gratuitous twist ends the otherwise spot - on send - up on a false note, but for the bulk of its running time, Series 7 is cynical, biting fun.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Match Point) seemed completely gratuitous, and I wondered if he had a larger role that was cut during postproduction.

For some it's a lovely and deeply touching coda; for others it's Spielberg's desperately heavyhanded and completely gratuitous final act of emotional extortion.

Credit: momontimeout.com via Lisa on Pinterest Chocolate Stout Cake Okay, okay — this last one is completely gratuitous, but how can you make a list like this without including a recipe for chocolate cake?!

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In his first public comments on the scandals, Pope Benedict was both humble and sensible, saying they «brought sadness» to his heart, while affirming his faith they would be overcome, and rebuking the «entirely gratuitous» speculation of the media which was presenting a «completely unrealistic image of the Holy See.»

«25 In other words, the assumption that modern science has revealed or demonstrated that the universe is fundamentally composed of dead or mindless matter in purely mechanical motion is completely unwarranted and gratuitous.

If Bob's apparent selflessness and protective instincts mean we quickly warm to him, however, a gratuitous third act twist completely destroys the emotional bridge that director Michaël R Roskam has built between his character and the audience.

There were no cheap shots or gratuitous judgemental behavior shown in this film; and never once were these characters not completely believable.

It's completely over-the-top and gratuitous in an unashamed display of pure, unadulterated fan service.

I think he covers the whole spectrum — of paintings that only work because they are recognisable as landscapes («Fen Dyke no. 3» 1968), paintings that work and appear to be completely abstract («Spanish Chestnut, Purple Floor» 1964, «Summer Duckweed» 1975), paintings with an almost gratuitous bit of figuration (successfully) thrown in («Summer Courtyard» 1955) and paintings where the figuration is apparent but only secondary and not necessary to the success of the painting («Boat and Foliage in Five Chords no. 1» 1970).

The reviewer couldn't help highlighting the authors totally gratuitous observation that colonial settlers were hapless climate victims while, today, our global warming miseries are completely self - inflicted.