Sentences with phrase «so gratuitous»

Does it have to be so gratuitous and over the top?

It would be logical to wonder why Microsoft would release an app so gratuitous when their target audience is normally much more corporate.

Never has a film been so gratuitous in its attempt to grab the fanboy market and I'm sold.

One scene is so gratuitous it's almost funny, Lawrence lying naked and spread - eagled on an assembly desk, only her genitals obscured by a conveniently aligned elbow.

But it's so well made, the violence is so gratuitous, and the general reception has been so delighted, that attention must be paid.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

So, after creating Adam and Eve and giving them all that their spiritual nature required (that was the first gift), God added a second and totally gratuitous gift — the capacity and desire to know and love Him, and be united with Him forever.

In this respect, God's love for others and the creation and redemption that are its two essential aspects must themselves always be contingent and so utterly free and gratuitous.

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.

For traditional theism, the qualifier «if possible» can be deleted, so that its God, to be considered perfectly good, would simply prevent all gratuitous evils.

So here's a gratuitous life update from me.

The childishness, the gratuitous fear mongering and race baiting, has been so consistent that it's almost expected.

As was so perfectly illustrated in yesterday's article, 48 Hours in the Life of West Ham Transfer Speculation, we are now firmly in that positive upswing phase of gratuitous optimism, where you could easily be forgiven for thinking that players are falling over themselves (and not in the simulation sense) to earn a move to the London Stadium.

And sometimes the gratuitous joke does the job so much better.

I would very rarely tell a joke I don't believe in, but it's so easy to go for the gratuitous joke.

This portrait of motherhood is extremely blunt, bleak, gratuitous, and so funny it's painful.

The Ring Two is never scary, never even moderately tense, and its jump scares are so carefully telegraphed that it feels as though Nakata's embarrassed to resort to gratuitous startles.

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.

Lucinda Dickey plays Christie, a telephone engineer working on overhead lines, and her hobbies include cheesy stuff like pastel leotards and leggings for gratuitous aerobics — so her character is obviously composed of welder Alex (Jennifer Beals), from Flashdance, and Regan (Linda Blair), from The Exorcist.

Wearing red gloves in a cold, blue world, Heidi has the warm hands, warm heart that don't come so easily to her emotionally troubled, noncommittal new boyfriend (but do come easily to the gratuitous local kid with Asperger syndrome, the film's sole unspoiled man).

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.

That movie wasn't all that special, so you can imagine how flat this PG - 13 version must be, without inspired casting and cameos, a sense of humor, cringeworthy carnage and gratuitous nudity to distract from its storytelling shortcomings.

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.

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.

After the first film was released, there were no end to these sorts of movies around, full of all manner of kinky sex and gratuitous nudity, so by waiting 14 years to deliver the follow - up, the producers have come to the party after everyone else has had their fix and left.

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.

There are also a few shots, not so much gratuitous as emblematic, of some severe wounds that ooze lividly.

The film isn't for the squeamish, but Travis shows necessary restraint in not making this a gratuitous spectacle just because it's rated R. Yeah, it's violent, but understandably so and Travis has a flair for making what could have been standard action scenes fresh, which is only enhanced by the stellar 3D.

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.

«In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!»

«In so many films and TV shows, we see gratuitous female nudity, and that's not OK.

Arty sci - fi headscratchers, gratuitous superhero - film reboots, old - fashioned melodramas, new films by Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson and [gulp] Michael Bay — it's the cream of the crop and the bottom of the barrel of the year so far.

The scene is gratuitous — Rodriguez's portrayals of women are often said to be empowering, a claim negated when he's partnered with the notably misogynist Miller — but it's also easy to understand why some dumb schmuck might be so heartsick for her.

It's also quite graphically violent, purposefully gratuitous in many ways, although so absurd that you actually are able to distance yourself from the horrors of the sadism to actually find it amusing without feeling like a sick bastard.

It's an essential key to why «Pulp Fiction» resonated with so many people, even those who normally abhor foul language and gratuitous violence.

The scenario is full of money drops, doublecrosses, and gratuitous killings; curiously, the last are rendered so bloodlessly that the hardcore Bronson audience is likely to go on strike.

Naturally, sparks do fly between Rhyme and Amelia, and while I usually frown upon the gratuitous romantic angle so often shoehorned into films, I did not mind it here.

It's a cool evening with a thin crowd, so I have plenty of time to acclimate to the car and practice my gratuitous water - box burnout technique.

So although my books aren't littered with bodies or gratuitous violence, there is definitely the thrill of the chase and enough physical danger and interaction to cause excitement.

Where so many attempts at erotica fall short, namely in the random and inexplicable gratuitous sex scenes, Roux's books is full of complex story lines that really have a lot to offer a broad audience.

Debit: Meanwhile, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's latest round of gratuitous money printing increased inflation fears this week as evidenced by the so - called break - even rate between nominal and inflation - protected Treasury debt; it reached its highest level since 2006.

It's gratuitous from the get - go, so after a few hours the violent deaths are no longer shocking, just unpleasant.

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).

Afterall, many of the things we will purchase can be reused, so you can be certain that the dragons, aliens and gratuitous explosions in this game will be the first of many!

In my creative endeavors it is better to ponder these issues as reflection rather than a plan, for in planning I would likely over-focus, with superficial and gratuitous results; so for me it will be better to ask, «In what degree was I?»

The punk rock thing was wide open and it liked lurid, vulgar material, see, so I could do a lot of gratuitous sex and violence.

Follow up to memo to Showtime: You don't have to have gratuitous sex and nudity so much as promise it in the promos!