Sentences with phrase «few gratuitous»

And although there are a few gratuitous boob shots (including a convention - breaking one from Whitlow) and some sincerely awful special effects that are, again, forgiven for being the product of borrowed invention, there's nothing at the centre of the exercise except an invitation to wallow in our youthful lack of critical facility.

There are even a few gratuitous chase scenes, Bulworth fleeing his killer.

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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.

That kind of gratuitous conflict does nothing for anyone except a few alienated 18 year olds that need a sense of community.

We also did some gratuitous posing and thankfully for me the girls were willing to take a few outfit shots for me since I left my camera at home.

Running a mere 80 minutes and somehow still feeling heavily padded, this Cops spoof yields a few amusing (if widely spaced) moments but otherwise simply revels in the gratuitous nudity, language and below - the - belt gags that an «R» rating provides.

Serreau directs for maximum freneticism, with her actors rushing around and regurgitating great torrents of imperfectly subtitled dialogue (a gratuitous subplot involving drug traffickers seems to have been inserted just to double the hysteria), and while there are more than a few laughs, most of them are laughs of recognition — seeing these gags again is like coming across long - lost (and vaguely embarrassing) relations.

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!

There are also a few shots, not so much gratuitous as emblematic, of some severe wounds that ooze lividly.

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.

And by «guide» I mean «gratuitous gadget porn» with a few facts thrown in, to keep things classy.

It's gratuitous from the get - go, so after a few hours the violent deaths are no longer shocking, just unpleasant.

For you — who within a few interactions started throwing around accusations of dishonesty — to complain of another's «gratuitous offensiveness» takes the biscuit.

If we attempt to analyse the few facts that seem to be known, the first part of the test is relatively easy to overcome in that it is clear that the aircraft was under the respondents control, there was an attempt by the respondents to argue the point on the basis that Mr Williams was on a gratuitous joy ride which had not been sanctioned by them.

That means that if there's any hope for solving the massive spread of misinformation, hate speech, and violent content (to name just a few offenders) readily available on all of these popular platforms, it won't be throngs of poor souls struggling through hours of gratuitous posts.

The Kyocera Hydro Vibe is a small and thick, by today's standards, with gratuitous use of hard plastic and a few different textures and finishes that try to make it look fancy but generally make it seem cheap.