Sentences with phrase «from gratuitous»

Apart from the gratuitous insult to some of the world's poorest people, the Government's argument ignores some vital facts.

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.

The jaw - dropping spectacle involved is far from gratuitous.

While the killing of animals is never pleasant to watch, this film was, as mentioned, in black - and - white, and «stylised» in its approach, and the scene in question was as far as possible from a gratuitous gore-fest.

We are thankfully saved from gratuitous shots of musical virtuosity in this film where most filmmakers would have indulged in them.

I was hoping for the latter and also hoping that Roth may have moved on from his gratuitous early films like Hostel and Cabin Fever and actually managed to mature somewhat.

It's no secret that, aside from those gratuitous teenage sex scenes set to One Republic and Blake Lively's cleavage, the best part of Gossip Girl was Blair Waldorf's headbands.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

I do feel that it becomes possible to see the presence of the world and its orderliness in a new way when you believe it to be a gift — literally gratuitous — and a gift from a Giver.

In one aspect, they suggest (they mimic, we could say) the divinely gratuitous excess of Creation; seen from another angle, their multiplicity reflects our fallenness, our propensity to error, our confusion.

There is no resentment or alienation, because he knows these judgments as gifts from God, as gratuitous rather than possessed or earned, and so he recognizes in the modern naysayer a person like himself, one who does not yet understand.

«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.»

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.

Don Draper is marginal to most of its action; two watchable characters (Roger Sterling and Joan Harris) are absent from it entirely; and we endure two eruptions of gratuitous weirdness, one in the form of kinky sex, the other in the form of sexualized mutilation.

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...

Yet when he strays from his own discipline into another, he himself seems to have gratuitous assertion near at hand.

And when the day of the Virgin dawned, the profound and gratuitous finality of the Universe was suddenly revealed: from the day when the first breath of individualization, passing over the burgeoning supreme lower Center, caused the first monads within it to smile, everything moved towards the Child born of the Woman.

«But it is nonetheless gratuitous as well as exploitative, just the kind of thing we would expect from this genius couple.»

One of the remarkable aspects of this song is the way it combines sadness and joy — or rather, how Dylan allows joy to arise from the sadness, so that the joy is not gratuitous and the sadness not self - indulgent.

From Christine Foster (production house producer): «I think that the public is exposed to too much gratuitous violence and too much exploitative sex.

(It is utterly gratuitous to deduce from the words «I fell upon my face» and the prophet's occasional trances that Ezekiel was a cataleptic.)

A second problem with Hasker's argument is that, although he claims that he is arguing that God should allow gratuitous evils, he is in fact arguing that even the gratuitous evils are not really gratuitous, because they contribute to «God's intention to make us responsible moral individuals,» which from his perspective is a more important consideration than the relative balance of enjoyment and suffering in the world.

But when we look at the world around us, we find prevalent instances of apparently gratuitous evil — pointless suffering from which no greater purpose seems to result.

Therefore, if we hold that grace is constitutive of human nature, then we can not at the same time hold that it is gratuitous, that it comes from above and as a favour.

So here's a gratuitous life update from me.

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.

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.

Chris McGrath, the GOP candidate for the Republican ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos» Long Island seat, is drawing heat from women's rights groups and others for bankrolling two R - rated sex comedies that include gratuitous nude scenes — «Surf School» and «Death to the Supermodel.»

Chris McGrath, the GOP candidate for the Republican ex-Majority Leader's Long Island seat, is drawing heat from women's rights groups and others for bankrolling two R - rated sex comedies that include gratuitous nude scenes — «Surf School» and «Death to the Supermodels.»

«I found it gratuitous when she referred to Simcha Felder as «the Jewish senator from southern Brooklyn.»

In London, where the exhibit ran for 11 months in 2002 and 2003, tabloid headlines ranged from the hesitantly charitable («Gratuitous gore — or the most amazing art exhibition ever?»)

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.

With an R - rating, the film is afforded the opportunity to go weirder and dirtier than the lame brained spoofs from Friedberg / Seltzer, like the Gratuitous Nudity district or when they keep reminding us that Katniss is underage.

Hunted balances its cheesy dialogue and gratuitous sex and violence with an overarching narrative that dramatizes endemic moral rot and the dark money pulling strings from behind the curtain.

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.

It differs from the campaign in terms that it doesn't offer the same level of gratuitous kill streaks in a bid to balance out player to player combat.

That's interesting, I suppose, but the murder subplot never doesn't feel like a gratuitous «hook» in a show blessed with such a unique and potent milieu, and it paves the way for more gangster shit from a former writer of «The Sopranos» (Winter) who apparently can't leave that series behind.2

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.

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!

As for the complaints of eye - burning scenes of violence: this is far from the most violent 2013 movie, and the violence is neither extraneous nor gratuitous.

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.

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.

Other scenes show blood from gunshot wounds, fisticuffs, and traumatic incidents, although the images don't reach the point of explicit or gratuitous.

That movie wasn't all that special, so you can imagine how flat this PG - 13 version must be, without inspired casting and cameos, a sense of humor, cringeworthy carnage and gratuitous nudity to distract from its storytelling shortcomings.

Its refusal to linger on the sexy, flashy or gratuitous is also a good move from the directors, it instead makes Linda's story the main focus of the film and is all the better for it.

Moving away from the horror elements of The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day is an all - out war of car chases, fight scenes, shoot outs, nuclear explosions and a phenomenal, if gratuitous set piece where the Terminator blows up numerous police cars with a machine gun for no other reason than the script required an action beat.

Whilst never gratuitous, it certainly doesn't shy away from truthfully creating the type of blood and gore that would result from such acts.

This fun but smart characterization is typical of Hunted, which balances its cheesy dialogue and gratuitous sex and violence with an overarching narrative that dramatizes endemic moral rot and the dark money pulling strings from behind the curtain.