Sentences with phrase «gratuitous use»
The phrase "gratuitous use" means using something unnecessarily or excessively, without any genuine reason or purpose. It suggests that whatever is being done or included is excessive and lacks justification. Full definition
iFixit gave B&N's gadget a repairability score of six out of ten (Kindle Fire got an eight), because of gratuitous use of adhesives and a battery that requires removal of the motherboard to be extracted.
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Bonus points for gratuitous use of suspenders and bow ties.
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.
Gratuitous use of slo - mo and fast zooms enhance the feel of effortless badassery we've come to associate with Tom Clancy protagonists, and give us a glimpse at the kind of toys we'll have at our disposal when it comes time to step into the shoes of the Ghosts.
But this 1080p rendering flattens the image even further through the gratuitous use of DVNR (which evidently necessitates a measure of no - less - irksome edge - enhancement to compensate), and if it's never applied as severely as it is on some of the recent James Bond titles, as with them there is a tendency for black to drop off steeply, thus heightening the synthetic appearance of the presentation.
The gratuitous use of the color red with a slightly «old west» fraying of the logo is quite a hint.
Not that long ago, I seemed to gripe about the gratuitous use of handheld «shaky - cam» photography in an awful lot of movies.
Maybe some gratuitous use of an animated gif here or there, or an occasional musical interlude.
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).
Crush Your Enemies is a RTS distilled down to the basics - foul - mouthed barbarians, gratuitous use of «bollocks,» and more chest hair than you can handle.
The Spencer decision therefore serves as a clear warning that police should cease and desist from the gratuitous use of warrantless requests to obtain private internet subscriber data.
The Court ruled that the scheme was a tax avoidance arrangement and commented in particular on the risk that the scheme would never be a profitable one, the gratuitous use of the promissory note mechanism and the timing mismatch between when expenditure was legally incurred and the point when it was required to be paid «in an economic sense».
You can convey my equal displeasure at the hackneyed and stilted language in this article, dead metaphors and the gratuitous use of junk science.
Older candidates» resumes seem prone to the gratuitous use of graphic elements.