Sentences with phrase «most gratuitous»

But haven't you ever deliberately executed the most gratuitous combo to finish an enemy?

But now we have actual statistics to show that they're some of the most gratuitous book - to - movie adaptations ever.

Simultaneously a San Antonio Beauty Pageant Queen and a covert agent trained to assist Machete in his mission, Heard's role is probably the most gratuitous element in Machete Kills.

There isn't much sense of escalation, except for the fact that when it comes down to the final battle the robots yell out dialogue whilst pummelling each other, in that most gratuitous of cinema traditions that refuses to die.

logical contractions, except as temporary slips of the mind — plentiful, though temporary — are the most gratuitous of errors; and usually they are trivial.

The most gratuitous practitioners of violence right now would be the Zetas, a rampaging league of sociopaths with a notable devotion to physical cruelty.

Not exact matches

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

Fewer rescuers than non-rescuers reported being slapped, spanked, kicked, and beaten or having their hair pulled by parents; 3) Many more non-rescuers than rescuers perceived punishment as gratuitous — a cathartic release of aggressiveness by parents; and 4) Rescuers most frequently used the word explained to describe parental approaches to correction and discipline.

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

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.

and his acts of insolence, and his rapine, and his habit of insulting people, and his cruelty and his continual murders of people untried and uncondemned, and his never ending, and gratuitous, and most grievous inhumanity» Pilate was «exceedingly angry and... at all times a man of most ferocious passions.»

I like the idea of apples and pecans for crunch — often the most texture you get in an egg salad sandwich is some gratuitous celery, if you're lucky.

A frequent visitor to Roach's Wild Card Gym, he sparred nearly every day, something most boxers consider gratuitous over-training and an unnecessary risk.

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.

There is some quality folk singing, gratuitous violence, and the most ironic of coincidences as John tries to live his Double life as an inteelfienve officer / employee at an industrial piping firm.

The film showcased some of the most disturbing images ever portrayed on film such as monsters devouring on humans, gratuitous violence, and perhaps shockingly the most, an African American man hitting a woman across the face, AKA «the punch.»

What I find most disturbing about DOAX3's release is not the gratuitous sexualized content that became the focus of its western press, but the biased and vendetta - driven journalism surrounding it here in the west.

Lost In Beijing is most noted for several thumb - nosing gratuitous sex scenes that got the movie reprimanded by the censors back home.

The show has some unorthodox elements, but feels fairly cliched in most of its beats, largely serving as an excuse for bouts of grisly violence and gratuitous sex.

Serreau directs for maximum freneticism, with her actors rushing around and regurgitating great torrents of imperfectly subtitled dialogue (a gratuitous subplot involving drug traffickers seems to have been inserted just to double the hysteria), and while there are more than a few laughs, most of them are laughs of recognition — seeing these gags again is like coming across long - lost (and vaguely embarrassing) relations.

Wisely, director Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Crimson Peak, and currently collaborating with celebrated video game director Hideo Kojima on the hotly anticipated game Death Stranding) never gets too gratuitous with these acts, allowing the juxtaposition to breathe, but most importantly, further investing audiences into what will go down as one of the most magical fairy - tales of its generation.

While it is true that the unassailable main character who leaves a wake of bodies in their path isn't often a waiflike teen girl, and not all action flicks feature European scenery (a novelty for North American audiences), the gratuitous content is just like most other offerings in this genre.

And while some scenes do portray a gratuitous amount of almost Tarantino - level violence that comes out of nowhere, most of Gangster Squad's violence feels justified, and redemptive, echoing a theme of the film that makes it more fun than your average action fare: heroism.

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.

She is the most idiotic and nonsensical inclusion (where gratuitous fan service is concerned) in the Fire Emblem series to date as far as I'm concerned.

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

Here his blankness is perfectly suited to Chili's unflappable cool — and in one of the most welcomely gratuitous dance sequences in cinematic history, he reprises both his defining rôle from «Saturday Night Fever», and his seminal floor moves with Uma Thurman from Pulp Fiction.

We love it for its globe - spanning cast of should - know - better Shakespearian talent; for its mixed bag of ideas (most originating in Herbert's book, others, like the gratuitous heart plugs, from Lynch's own warped mind); for its twisted wedding of ornate Euro - pudding epic, grotesque experimental horror flick and action blockbuster; for the stunning cinematography, immersive sets and beautiful costumes — and yes, even Sting's black nappy.

Taking a page out of Hitchcock, he accomplishes this feat without resorting to the gratuitous gore we see splattered across the screen in most of the scary genre's recent offerings.

Grounded by heartbreakingly poignant performances from two of French cinema's most iconic actors, Amour contains none of the moralistic finger - wagging and gratuitous sadism that so many critics have found off - putting in the director's work.

Bound by the courts of law and box - office expectations to adhere to a very limited perception of what our hero was capable of accomplishing, Never Say Never Again explicitly states its desire to ladle out «some gratuitous sex and violence,» which it does — in the most blank, perfunctory way possible.

That last revelation initially seems gratuitous, but it's at least essential to one of the film's major themes: Nobody can understand the role they play in their loved one's lives, especially not the people that are most affected by violence.

Even as it cuts between the police investigation, a gorier but not - that - gratuitous «CSI» episode, and the games at hand, it is the most cleanly plotted the series has seen in a while.

In fact, one of the most hilarious scenes is one of gratuitous body baring: Billie films her first music video wearing a translucent wrap over a silver string bikini, but the wind machine is too strong, and — whoops!

It weaves in and out of finding its path again, but there are far too many narrative digressions — most centered on graphic depictions of torture — that were, in my opinion, far more gratuitous than necessary.

And perhaps most telling of all is that after their gratuitous claim that, «We welcome this statewide conversation about suspension practices.

What's most striking about these objects is not their beauty per se but how sheerly gratuitous that beauty is.

Some of that content might be gratuitous, but the games are also smarter and better written than most videogames.

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.

Nail a killing shot and the camera will lovingly follow the bullet in slow - motion before switching to glorious X-ray, letting you to watch as the gleaming piece of metal drives through muscle, shatters bone and ruptures internal organs in an orgy of gratuitous violence which stands alongside Mortal Kombat's brutal X-ray moves as the most pleasingly savage display of bodily destruction to ever appear in a videogame.

Together with other gratuitous effects, like fountains of blood, pieces of corpses that keep lying on the floor, burning enemies running around screaming, and Ryu nonchalantly shaking of the bloodstains from his weapons, Ninja Gaiden II is surely one of the most violent and gory games in existence, and they might have overdone things a bit.

Although in most cases, notably the parodic nature of Rebecca Warren's Corccioni, this avoids being gratuitous.

VP: You continue to dance around the substance of my criticism, most lately with gratuitous displays of professorial pedantry.

I encountered gratuitous hostility and got my posts censored or truncated while those of certain ideological tint were given free pass even though they violated most posting guidelines.

Your statement that George Mason University is «one of the most conservative institutions in the country» is gratuitous hyperbole that insults many dedicated academics at GMU.

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.