Sentences with phrase «n't gratuitous»

While children may not get as much out of it as teens and adults will, there at least isn't gratuitous violence, profanity, or nudity on display here (three checkpoints many action films try to deliver in spades).

That includes its use of profanity, which isn't gratuitous or pretentiously supposed to recreate «how people talk», but rather serves to clarify characters and punctuate humor.

But unlike a lot of content on the web (i.e porn), this blog post isn't gratuitous for the sake of it — this information may prove invaluable for someone else who is perhaps nervous about having their first child or having a home birth.

One of the remarkable aspects of this song is the way it combines sadness and joy — or rather, how Dylan allows joy to arise from the sadness, so that the joy is not gratuitous and the sadness not self - indulgent.

It's not a gratuitous flash of skin because it actually serves a design function by creating that uber - flattering V - shape at her waist.

A bit off topic, but this outfit and how I like to address my daily looks, is just that, a bit sexy and ladylike but not gratuitous.

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.

The inevitable violence in the film is teased and built up to a fever pitch so that when it boils over it feels earned and not gratuitous.

It's not gratuitous, however, and younger kids could probably watch without a problem so long as they aren't impressionable when it comes to displays of violence.

It's not gratuitous — Regan is deaf (as is Simmonds), so they've been using it since well before the invasion; or like the way the family says a silent grace before a meal; establishing that they believe in something greater than themselves.

Now don't get me wrong, there is plenty of blood, but it's not gratuitous like it was in Evil Dead or other gore fests.

If the scene requires it, and it's for a reason and not gratuitous, then yeah, absolutely.

The Weinstein Company argued that the scene was not gratuitous, but rather realistic and necessary.

However, the film is not gratuitous in its depiction of the gore even if it is graphic, and I respected the fact that it held back the shots of carnage during many scenes when it could have been expected.

Very eloquent, but I think the major difference between grindhouse violence, and the violence in something like Antichrist, is precisely that the latter is not gratuitous.

Hopefully someone comes up with a solid movie, with well envisioned special effects that are not gratuitous, but make things look real.

With realistic violence, but not gratuitous in nature, the somber painting of Juarez Mexico would make even Edgar Allen Poe shutter is disgust and fear.

This is not a gratuitous comment on the part of the writer of this op - ed.

No, not gratuitous promotion but only by way of interest since I'm actively developing the print and ePub versions of the book now.

The delivery of just one new work a year under the new scheme won't be able to redress any significant imbalances, but it should help ensure that the work is of quality and not gratuitous (although the budget for the purchase has not been disclosed).

The ECtHR was satisfied that her statement was a value judgment that was measured, and not a gratuitous personal attack aiming to offend.

Despite the fact that the communications materials stated that the employer «reserve [d] the right to modify, amend or terminate the plan at any time», other statements that benefits «represent [ed] a significant and valuable part of [employees»] compensation», to which they were «entitled», established that the benefits were a form of compensation, and not a gratuitous perk of employment.

At first glance let me say that you are amazing... a true artist... and that is not gratuitous sycophancy... I don't have the time for that.

Not exact matches

But considering it starred Jonah Hill, who never saw a sentence that didn't need a gratuitous swear word, it lacked a certain trash talk realism.

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.

Not even a gratuitous quarter point bump.

What that gratuitous shot at the Republicans has to do with her premise is not a mystery if you check out her leftist political views.

I never appreciated his use of gratuitous nude pictures he used earlier on to increase his numbers... but I saw it for what it was... I can also see why my husband and I'm sure others, would be offended by what they see & read here if this is not their view of church & religion.

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 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.»

(3) Another justification for Whitehead's apparently gratuitous assumption that the experience of CE is accurate requires that the «experience» of CE not always be conscious.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer reminded us that grace is free but not cheap, gratis but not banal, gratuitous but not superfluous.

Grace by definition is gratuitous, but that does not mean that it is an optional extra or super-addition to our nature.

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.

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 authority).

We can not exist without the gratuitous care of others and the prodigal love of God.

In response to Hasker's fourth proposition, however, I argued against his contention that the notion of gratuitous evil does not provide the needed criterion.

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.

In the case of the latter theory the fact of such hierarchies of composites is strictly gratuitous, as it is merely a state of affairs which is empirically found to be the case; in terms of that theory composites can not be any more than pure aggregates.

One does not want to give gratuitous offense.

Mr. George H. Pruette, Jr. (Director of Public Affairs, Advertising, for General Motors) says that «General Motors believes that positioning our advertisements in an environment of exploitative sex and gratuitous violence which violate the accepted standards of a community is not in the best interests of either the Corporation or to the sale of its products.»

Hasker's real position, in other words, seems to be that although at one level the prima facie evils of this world are gratuitous evils, they at another level are not, because their very gratuitousness is intended by God to evoke our moral efforts to overcome them.

Having added the second issue, which deals not with the proposed criterion as such but with an imagined situation in which we could know that God is abiding by it, Hasker then argues that God should not prevent all gratuitous evils.

Whatever Christianity considers to be a gratuitous event, a free decision of the love of God, not reducible to the exigencies of the mind as such, is considered inversely as a mythical pattern which is merely the expression of an inferior level of needs constitutive of the life of the mind.

A second problem with Hasker's argument is that, although he claims that he is arguing that God should allow gratuitous evils, he is in fact arguing that even the gratuitous evils are not really gratuitous, because they contribute to «God's intention to make us responsible moral individuals,» which from his perspective is a more important consideration than the relative balance of enjoyment and suffering in the world.

Hasker's fourth proposition states that this criterion can not be the insistence that God should prevent all «gratuitous» evils, with those defined as evils «that God could prevent... without incurring any equal or greater evils and without losing any goods that would be sufficient to outweigh them.»

No that wouldn't work because it is much easier to make an unsubstantiated, gratuitous attack against those of the Christian faith.

Dean Burch, then Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, indicated at the Senate hearing that the broadcasting industry «s response should be «immediate and decisive,» and that their response should include sharp reductions in «all gratuitous and needless violence» in the programs children watch, and «the creation of substantial amounts of new diversified programming, not just the usual diet of cartoons, to open the eyes and expand the minds of young viewers.»

Therefore, if we hold that grace is constitutive of human nature, then we can not at the same time hold that it is gratuitous, that it comes from above and as a favour.

Since it didn't «work,» it seems like nothing more than gratuitous evil on the part of God, or at the bare minimum, some sort of childish temper - tantrum when the people He created stop doing what He wants.