Sentences with phrase «gratuitous reference»

[FN121] The section appears after a detailed Child Support Guideline that has been interpreted as applying to all proceedings * 798 to determine the care and custody of minors, and seems to be a gratuitous reference intended to neutralize criticism of the joint custody presumption as an end run around child support.

Pointing out, in detail with specific examples, and with appropriate caveats that I was not referring to all «skeptics», the parallels between climate «skepticism» and fascism is not the same as inserting a gratuitous reference to Hitler into an unrelated topic.

* It would have been more effective without the gratuitous reference to testosterone, which doesn't at all suit an academic / finance type like Hewson.

With a gratuitous reference to my brand new precious baby coming to harm.

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Back in 2010, Pachauri rejected the suggestion that his work contains perhaps too many gratuitous references to sex.»

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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.

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Ebert and I agree on a couple of points: I am also tired of illiterate directors who pepper their stupid opus with gratuitous gore and «hip» one - liners and references to other films.

Throughout, the narrative padding is conspicuous, and the copious references to better films are gratuitous, even lazy.

In the films that have become the face of this comedic tradition, lowest - common - denominator pop - culture references take the place of jokes, and gratuitous raunch takes the place of zany cleverness.

Throughout, the narrative padding is conspicuous — when one hastily introduced character is dispatched, another character is introduced — and the copious references to better films are gratuitous, even lazy.

References to Dunkirk come across as gratuitous considering that awful film's recent engagement to a plethora of fawning critics who seem to have never seen a competent war film in their lives.

The seemingly gratuitous Sears reference is not without somber purpose.

While we accept all styles — including experimental, hybrid, and conventional forms — we aren't interested in submissions of light verse, genre fiction, and any piece that references gratuitous violence or exploitative sexual imagery.

Gratuitous Queen reference!

If you're looking for some tips, or just want to know how many Wang references are in the game, check back in as I'll be posting Easter Egg guides and an article with nothing but gratuitous Wang references.

I had seen and studied many of Andersson's works in reproduction and while her muted color palette and references to period interiors sometimes cast a vintage - like shadow over her surfaces, an effect that I might normally find gratuitous or off - putting, her strange way of telling a story with no resolution or creating an in - between space transported me to a timeless realm where I was free to imagine with reckless abandon.

It is peppered with references to nudity and breasts, not simply because «a bit of gratuitous filth might get me more hits,» but because, as she announces, she is pregnant and soon to be breastfeeding, and so bodies and breasts are very much on her mind.