Sentences with phrase «seeming gratuitous»

On the surface, the scene seems gratuitous, an offense to the prudish and titillation for the prurient.

Indeed Wright's use of the word «transcendent» seems gratuitous.

The gentle Mr. Wood's derision of Dunlap had seemed gratuitous, out of character.

Mainly it's marking time: the characters take a definite backseat to the special effects, and much of the action seems gratuitous, leading nowhere.

The supporting characters have barely anything to do — Vince Vaughn's role seems gratuitous and Keith David's miniscule appearance competes with Lindsay Crouse's in The Impostor for the smallest cameo ever.

Even with long scenes of action utilizing modern effects, the approach doesn't seem gratuitous, which is an impressive accomplishment after having seen so many action films already this year.

Needless to say, this isn't remotely suitable for children or anyone squeamish or easily offended, but none of it seems gratuitous: it seems impossible, but Haneke films his extreme material with some taste and discretion.

The comedian turns in haunting work as a Polish detective, but at times the film's depiction of women in distress seems gratuitous.

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.

An additional 20 mins on what I watched does seem gratuitous, but for that 2 hrs and 47 mins I was riveted, not bored once.

Also, the Native American spirituality scenes seemed gratuitous.

After reading the paper published by Kirkby et al. in the journal Nature, the gag order by the director of CERN seems gratuitous and petty.

Of course it ramps down, so effort expended is minimal.Susanne Labarre of Fast Company wonders why «What would seem gratuitous and gross anywhere else just kind of makes sense in go - go capitalist China, right?»

However, considering the added expense of printing such material, his attempts at scholarship often seemed gratuitous to those legal practitioners in demand of concise and timely information at low cost.

Not exact matches

The comment on masturbation is gratuitous and seems to reflect somebody's need to address a pet hang - up.

But the preoccupation of the leaders of the American churches with the crumbling foundations of European churches seems somewhat gratuitous when the foundations of their own churches are crumbling under their very feet for exactly the same reasons.

Yet when he strays from his own discipline into another, he himself seems to have gratuitous assertion near at hand.

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.

But when we look at the world around us, we find prevalent instances of apparently gratuitous evil — pointless suffering from which no greater purpose seems to result.

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.

It is full of recipes for Red Pepper Coulis and Poppy Seed Vinaigrette, things that now seem dainty and gratuitous.

Responding to a series of written questions from a Liberal Democrat councillor, Billings said: «To speak about «a premeditated ambush» is not helpful and seems designed to heighten emotions in a quite gratuitous fashion.

To be fair, Ford is warmer to Schumer later in the chapter, although that seems a little gratuitous.

In all these cases it does seem like Mr Speaker had valid grounds for intervening, but his gratuitous and over-long criticisms may well have alienated another chunk of backbench Tory opinion.

This film does seem a lot more pointless and the ending gets racked up into a silly hollywood - like chase, and with some gratuitous cinematic and editing

Ana occasionally offers meek resistance to his demands, but these moments seem feeble and gratuitous.

This film does seem a lot more pointless and the ending gets racked up into a silly hollywood - like chase, and with some gratuitous cinematic and editing decisions made that shows this films wants to be something new but can't let go it's predecessor.

Ramsay seems to be offering herself — backed by a universally admiring media — as a female candidate for the Scorsese - Tarantino school of perverse, gratuitous and inexplicable brutality.

The best performance was given by the CGI animators, but again, seemed more akin to the brutal comic books than the toys or cartoons with gratuitous dismemberment aplenty.

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.

(Jarmusch) seems... to introduce gratuitous bloodshed that is out of sync with the engaging, offbeat tempo and dark, comedic moral fable that has come before.

Spoilers be damned, anyone familiar with Christie's story knows that not everyone is going to make it out alive, and for as gratuitous as the movie may seem (the red - band trailer ensures this is going to be a hard R), it looks like an absolute blast.

Because of Depp's detached performance and a rushed third act that seems cruelly indifferent to the horror of the murders, the gruesome ending does not feel like the shocking reveal the film was building up to, but rather like a gratuitous and unpleasant fuck you.

Such admirable aspirations might make her seem like an automatic nemesis for director Zack Snyder, whose hedonistic movies have, to date, reveled in cynicism (Watchmen), gratuitous violence (Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice), and the objectification of women (Sucker Punch, 300).

Ridiculously conceived, one can only laugh at how the film is set - up, with gratuitous car chases chock full of spontaneous explosions, muscle - bound pretty boys, and rooms in deserted buildings which seem to be used for little more than storage for dangerous objects for Seagal to use in hand - to - hand combat.

While these moments play for laughs, they seem mostly gratuitous from a story standpoint, and weaken the focus whenever they occur.

References to Dunkirk come across as gratuitous considering that awful film's recent engagement to a plethora of fawning critics who seem to have never seen a competent war film in their lives.

** NOTE: While gratuitous sex in movies often draws much attention, it should be noted that a gratuitous shot of Alice Eve in her skivvies seems to be the main reason her character exists.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Match Point) seemed completely gratuitous, and I wondered if he had a larger role that was cut during postproduction.

While these scenes might seem mostly gratuitous, they do cement the relationship as primarily driven by sexual interests, which explains why the two could end up living together without ever really learning as much about each other as they probably should.

Bell deftly parodies Vivian's vérité style of wobbly, gratuitous close - ups of hands and facial features but her characterization of Vivian as a nasty feminist gadfly seems a little reactionary.

The «prepare them for college» statement seems more than a bit gratuitous considering the statistics he is trying to rationalize relates exclusively to children aged 6 and under.

With any new Mercedes - Benz comes, sooner or later, the inevitable AMG version, some of which seem appropriate and some gratuitous.

- Library Journal «There are times... when the violent ending seems willed and gratuitous.

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

It does seem a little odd that this has gotten so much attention, given the God of War series» history (gratuitous nudity, graphic and grisly murder of innocent women, major female mythological characters whose main in - game purpose is to provide a sexual interlude, complete with quick time events and experience rewards, etc).

There seems to me to be a fair amount of evidence of deliberate promotion of disinformation (for example, the reactions to the CERN Cloud study or the reaction to Mojib Latif's statements about «global cooling), but the assertion of a «campaign» requires an elaboration of evidence, and the use of «dupes and minions» is unnecessary and gratuitous.

If we attempt to analyse the few facts that seem to be known, the first part of the test is relatively easy to overcome in that it is clear that the aircraft was under the respondents control, there was an attempt by the respondents to argue the point on the basis that Mr Williams was on a gratuitous joy ride which had not been sanctioned by them.

College students don't seem to mind spending thousands on electronics or other gratuitous expenses, but often overlook basic necessities, such as renters insurance.

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.