Sentences with phrase «less gratuitous»

and less snark — I'm adding these 2 posts to McIntyre's Sourcewatch page, for which purpose a less gratuitous tone would be more suitable.

Even X-ray kill - cams for skilled shots return, though they seem less gratuitous given the bad guys are already dead.

Mr. Shifty (tinyBuild Games, $ 14.99)-- Heavily influenced by Dennaton Games» Hotline Miami, Mr. Shifty is a similarly fashioned top - down brawler, albeit with far less gratuitous bloodshed.

Daniel Craig's first Bond film presents a slightly different tone, with a more serous plotline and less gratuitous sexuality.

Not exact matches

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.

Ted is hobbled by a labored third act and a subplot involving a demented loner played by Giovanni Ribisi that is so ragingly gratuitous, it almost feels like an homage to the famously unnecessary diamond - smuggling subplots of the»80s, but Ted is so consistently, even explosively funny and oddly good - natured throughout that it really doesn't need a plot at all, let alone an even - less - welcome chase scene.

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.

From an N - word laced opening sequence to a steady diet of profanity to its graphic dialogue to gratuitous frontal nudity to its much - anticipated sex scenes, Zack and Miri Make a Porno leaves even less to the imagination than its suggestive, testosterone - teasing title.

Gratuitous female nudity, they say, is a far cry from the more mysterious less - is - more school of noir, which the film claims to aim to channel.

In a less confrontational blog post, Cliff Harris, the creator of Gratuitous Space Battles and owner of Positech Games, sees Star Citizen funding and wonders if more government oversight is needed for games industry marketing and addiction manipulation.

Kim, joshie has found that his smarmy pseudo-intellectual posturing gets him far less attention than his gratuitous pettiness.

Were she less polite, prof. Mathen could have described the Supreme Court as delivering a benchslap to the trial judge, at once gratuitous and telling.

For the most part, these new editions are unnecessary and unjustified, lightly sprinkled with gratuitous and often ill - considered changes that fail to advance citation practice, confuse and sow uncertainty and even disagreement among even seasoned legal writers, editors and instructors, and generally make citation practice even less uniform and uniformity more difficult to realize.