Sentences with phrase «for gratuitous»

Great post-thanks SO much for the gratuitous Nate vid... who cares if he sits on the other side of the fence, LOVE him anyway!
Instead, claims for gratuitous services must be carefully scrutinized, both with respect to the nature of the services — were they simply part of the usual «give and take» between family members, or did they go «above and beyond» that level?
This includes advising on claims for gratuitous alienations, unfair preference, misfeasance and wrongful / fraudulent trading.
The truth is, even if he somehow magically discovered a mathematical proof of all things CAGW, his «argument» was crap, and was simply attached as an excuse for his gratuitous insults to Dr. Curry's integrity.
But if saving children or platforming across business charts isn't your thing, and you're a fool for gratuitous fan - service, you may want to consider grabbing Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed.
The only reward given for gratuitous grinding in Phantasy Star II is knowing that I might survive the next portion before being forced to grind for hours again.
Ryse is terrible yes but one that was a launch title and a heavily criticised one at that from the first moment it was revealed (ironically for its gratuitous use of QTE's).
We don't strive for gratuitous content,» he explains.
And if you prefer your pigs to fly (well, kinda), head over to The New York Times website for gratuitous pictures of piglets diving off a bridge in China.
Bonus points for gratuitous use of suspenders and bow ties.
Brace yourself for gratuitous sex scenes that go on forever — there are four in total including one that's just a rehash of footage from an earlier scene.
It's purely there for gratuitous reasons.
Nestled within that is a perfect demonstration of perspective and editing, as Renoir cuts between our heroine on a swing and unseen reaction shots of men around her to capture her burgeoning sexuality and her innocence without any need for gratuitous shots or explicit voiceover.
Brace yourself for a raunchy brand of humor and for gratuitous gore that can get fairly gruesome.
The body count is kept high by some stock characters such as a skeevy boss, uptight office workers, and sexy ladies in tight blouses and short skirts destined to be ripped away for some gratuitous shots of boobs and butts.
Apatow's extended editions are known for their gratuitous length but then so are his theatrical cuts, and while there exists, on some VHS tape in some Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse, no doubt, a version of Planes, Trains & Automobiles with a running time that would humble David Lean (ditto The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off), the theatrical release — no less a «director's cut» at a mere 92 minutes, as Hughes was his own producer by this point — demonstrates ruthless craftsmanship.
But Singleton never uses it for gratuitous entertainment.
Seizing on the flimsiest of excuses for gratuitous full - frontal nude shots, Apatow again remains faithful to his shallow, stated mission to feature male genitalia prominently in every movie he makes.
Mainly because the filmmakers continually opt for gratuitous gore rather than...
Lucinda Dickey plays Christie, a telephone engineer working on overhead lines, and her hobbies include cheesy stuff like pastel leotards and leggings for gratuitous aerobics — so her character is obviously composed of welder Alex (Jennifer Beals), from Flashdance, and Regan (Linda Blair), from The Exorcist.
And while my head is bowed and I'm begging for forgiveness, can you throw in a second one for that gratuitous hint, hint for you to pin my cheesily titled graphic?
I would very rarely tell a joke I don't believe in, but it's so easy to go for the gratuitous joke.
Cost savings, combined with what researcher Dr. Jerome Singer documents as the importance of movement and action as an immediate attention - getter, account for much of the pressure for gratuitous violence on the screens in our homes.
Whatever happens in the courts, there is no doubt that Chad should be immediately removed from the list of countries whose citizens are barred from traveling here, and the administration should extend its apologies to their government for the gratuitous insult.

Not exact matches

I would not use gratuitous sex and violence — as in Game of Thrones — but make sure the violence, for example, was appropriate to the story, its historical setting, and to my characters.
Except for projecting a fleeting image of a strongman, such gratuitous acts bring no economic benefits.
In a trust economy where honored relationships form the basis for developing and maintaining business, treating communication as a perfunctory exercise will only result in a gratuitous diminishment of credibility.
On the surface, the scene seems gratuitous, an offense to the prudish and titillation for the prurient.
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.
Catechesis delivered only as words is a sad reduction of the vast, rich, gratuitous pedagogy of God that the General Directory for Catechesis urges us to follow.
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.»
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.»
(3) Another justification for Whitehead's apparently gratuitous assumption that the experience of CE is accurate requires that the «experience» of CE not always be conscious.
For example, in the case of the Action for Children «s Television call for a ban on commercials for children too young to discriminate, or the church «s protest against excessive and gratuitous violence, the criticism was aimed at a class of programming rather than against an individual progrFor example, in the case of the Action for Children «s Television call for a ban on commercials for children too young to discriminate, or the church «s protest against excessive and gratuitous violence, the criticism was aimed at a class of programming rather than against an individual progrfor Children «s Television call for a ban on commercials for children too young to discriminate, or the church «s protest against excessive and gratuitous violence, the criticism was aimed at a class of programming rather than against an individual progrfor a ban on commercials for children too young to discriminate, or the church «s protest against excessive and gratuitous violence, the criticism was aimed at a class of programming rather than against an individual progrfor children too young to discriminate, or the church «s protest against excessive and gratuitous violence, the criticism was aimed at a class of programming rather than against an individual program.
That kind of gratuitous conflict does nothing for anyone except a few alienated 18 year olds that need a sense of community.
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.
Christianity is a message of life, a message based on the gratuitous love of the Father for us.
Roquentin's confrontation with the void in Sartre's Nausea («Everything is gratuitous»), the defeatism of Mr. Compson in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury («All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away the sawdust flowing from what wound in what side that not for me died not»), and Nietzsche's ironic and mournful declamations (such as his remark that the moment «clever animals invented cognition... was the haughtiest, most mendacious moment in the history of this world, but yet only a moment.
Unless reason reasserts itself over passion, the potential for short - term chaos is great and the risk of long - term damage even greater: an ongoing cycle of resentment, bitterness, and revenge that will lead to more of the gratuitous violence that was seen on the streets of Washington this past January 21.
Especially when there are people acting on religious dogma to withhold medical treatment from their children, kill doctors, sabotage the education system, fill kid's minds with imagery of gratuitous torture, fly planes into buildings, stone women to death for driving alone... etc...
But the preoccupation of the leaders of the American churches with the crumbling foundations of European churches seems somewhat gratuitous when the foundations of their own churches are crumbling under their very feet for exactly the same reasons.
One can quote, for example, the gratuitous good distribution to the citizens in the Czech Republic of Russia, giving them the right to obtain shares of the new private enterprises.
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.
Promises of an afterlife a plenty have, for as long as religion has existed, been a means to enable the voluntary imposition of unacceptable conditions of existence and the gratuitous tolerance of suffering.
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.
All economic and sociological explanations dash themselves in vain against the appearance of this kind of gratuitous act for which there are neither roots nor rational explanations.
The Humanitas Award provides $ 10,000 for the best program each year that stresses ethical principles and eschews gratuitous violence.
Mr. George H. Pruette, Jr. (Director of Public Affairs, Advertising, for General Motors) says that «General Motors believes that positioning our advertisements in an environment of exploitative sex and gratuitous violence which violate the accepted standards of a community is not in the best interests of either the Corporation or to the sale of its products.»
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