Sentences with phrase «in gratuitous»

What it doesn't need to do is slip to the wrong slide once in a while during a presentation, or «accidentally» drop in a gratuitous cleavage shot when demoing a game on one of its new tablets.

«In a legal marketing world that is literally awash in gratuitous and duplicative listings, pay - for - plays, unresearched ratings, rankings and scams - over 900 at last count - there are innumerable ways for lawyers and marketing departments to waste their time and money.

Such a pretension would, under any circumstances, be truly alarming, but in a country like ours, where thousands of land titles had their origin in gratuitous grants of the States, it would go far to shake the foundations of the best settled estates.

By Michael Sagoe (mikedot) What happens when you take the TPS style of Gears of War, the visual aesthetics of Metal Gear and throw in some gratuitous vi...

As an evil character wielding a massive warhammer, most of my finishing moves resulted in mashing my opponents into a bloody pulp in gratuitous slow motion.

What happens when you take the TPS style of Gears of War, the visual aesthetics of Metal Gear and throw in some gratuitous violence together in a blender?

Envelope Budgeting is a fantastic option for visual people or those seriously looking to reign in gratuitous spending.

The combination of lugging around hefty batteries and electronics, a suspension tuned for comfort, and low rolling resistance tires results in gratuitous amounts of body roll and understeer.

I'd indulge in a gratuitous high - five with photographer Dean Smith, but this is the first time we've worked together and it's way too early for that sort of behaviour.

Oh, and just for good measure, in a gratuitous slap at House Republicans, the release quoted Barnes saying that the administration was forced to act because its «proposal to fix NCLB has been with Congress for 16 months» but had been sunk by «partisan politics in the House.»

Soviet director Timur Bekmambetov makes an unforgettable, if quite controversial, English - language debut with this relentlessly - amoral exercise in gratuitous violence.

Perish the thought the film - makers shoehorned in some gratuitous lechery there, but it wouldn't have worked if it had been, say, Burt Reynolds.

What remains is an exercise in gratuitous violence geared to titillate rather than horrify.

However, this character study, ultimately about the forgiveness of one's self, is still rough around the edges with a script that veers dangerously towards the shallow at times, in gratuitous moments that are hard to ignore.

He doesn't make a complete sale, however; after all, sometimes the script shoehorns in gratuitous extreme sports tricks with all the seamed non-grace of Gymkata, as in a dinner tray - cum - skateboard scene whose only apparent purpose is to serve as the obligatory skateboarding scene — and that's where Diesel's knowing sense of humor comes in handy.

Divided into three parts, it kicks into gear with part two, at roughly the halfway point; it also should have ended there, as part three (by far the shortest, thankfully) extends the narrative to no clear purpose apart from allowing Park to toss in some gratuitous, Oldboy - style violence.

Many people die (though the worst acts of violence are never shown in gratuitous close - up), and the fate of all of humanity is always on the table.

It is painful to watch Toni Collette as Madame, especially in a gratuitous nude scene.

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.

If ministers of the gospel indulge in gratuitous virtue - signaling by promoting the worst of black legends, as if the sum total of Christianity's impact on world history were embodied by «the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition,» why would anyone come to their churches or listen to whatever's being offered there by way of I'm - OK - You're - OK therapeutic balm?

I took some comfort in a unique aspect of El Chapo's reputation among the heads of drug cartels in Mexico: that, unlike many of his counterparts who engage in gratuitous kidnapping and murder, El Chapo is a businessman first, and only resorts to violence when he deems it advantageous to himself or his business interests.

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.

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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.

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.

I understand why there is so - called gratuitous sex and violence in art.

If harsh, gratuitous trash - talking were a crime, Chanel creative director and head designer Karl Lagerfeld would be serving multiple life sentences in a maximum - security prison.

Instead of gratuitous product slides in the PowerPoint presentation, spend most of the time talking about buyers.

Sometimes it may come off as a business blog especially with the gratuitous self promotion (hey, I'm a marketer) but there are often articles, tips and resources that come as a result of working in the search marketing business and being active in the industry.

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.

The worst harm done by gratuitous, judgmental proclamations that «AIDS is God's damning curse upon homosexuals» is precisely in the tremendous temptation on the part of the AIDS sufferer to believe it, thus raising one more obstacle to faith in God's all - sufficient grace.

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.

I find your gratuitous Blasphemy offensive, lacking in integrity and plain disgusting.

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.

The special logic of this theory, after all, is that the Christian philosopher — having surmounted the «aesthetic,» «ethical,» and even in a sense «religious» stages of human existence — is uniquely able to enact a return, back to the things of earth, back to finitude, back to the aesthetic; having found the highest rationality of being in God's kenosis — His self - outpouring — in the Incarnation, the Christian philosopher is reconciled to the particularity of flesh and form, recognizes all of creation as a purely gratuitous gift of a God of infinite love, and is able to rejoice in the levity of a world created and redeemed purely out of God's «pleasure.»

In Christ we can see revealed with total clarity how the whole cosmos, and every aspect of creaturely existence, depends on the gratuitous love, yet utterly coherent Wisdom of the Creator.

«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.»

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 program.

«Most sex scenes you see in films or on TV are gratuitous.

In 1983 it established a special study committee «to examine the problems of exploitative sex and gratuitous violence in the media.&raquIn 1983 it established a special study committee «to examine the problems of exploitative sex and gratuitous violence in the media.&raquin the media.»

God can be said to be «drunk with love,» 42 «madly in love» with us.43 It is an «immeasurable» love, 44 a «gratuitous» love, 45 an «unimaginable» love.

Following Bergson, the élan vital is obliged to interact with dead matter in order to actualize itself in the various finite forms it «wants to take» (I grant that speaking of the élan vital as if it has desires is a gratuitous personification, but it is difficult to avoid this manner of speaking, since the élan vital is the ground of all actual desire).

It appears to me to be in any case gratuitous to read, as Gunkel does (in an argument against the historicity of the event), «dass Elias die 450 Propheten Baals mit eigener Hand geschlachtet habe» (Hermann Gunkel, Elias, Jahwe und Baal, Tubingen: 1906, p. 36).

In a devastating review, Edward Rothstein of the New York Times describes the museum's approach as gratuitous...

In his first public comments on the scandals, Pope Benedict was both humble and sensible, saying they «brought sadness» to his heart, while affirming his faith they would be overcome, and rebuking the «entirely gratuitous» speculation of the media which was presenting a «completely unrealistic image of the Holy See.»

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.

In other words, this passage reads to limit unnecessary or gratuitous violence, but not as a per se prohibition of violence against a slave (particularly in light of «he is both their Master and yours» directly and indirectly engaging in violence to punish bad behavior and exact compliance with authorityIn other words, this passage reads to limit unnecessary or gratuitous violence, but not as a per se prohibition of violence against a slave (particularly in light of «he is both their Master and yours» directly and indirectly engaging in violence to punish bad behavior and exact compliance with authorityin light of «he is both their Master and yours» directly and indirectly engaging in violence to punish bad behavior and exact compliance with authorityin violence to punish bad behavior and exact compliance with authority).