Sentences with phrase «take gratuitous»

That doesn't mean you always want to play it safe; it means that you ought not to take gratuitous risks.

They simply want to hide behind an alias and take gratuitous potshots at the Church.

David, I took your gratuitous insulting of Mike Mann as a hint.

His post at FD was about libertarians, nothing to do with me, but it was in that post that he took his gratuitous swipe at me — quite en passant.

Not exact matches

I took some comfort in a unique aspect of El Chapo's reputation among the heads of drug cartels in Mexico: that, unlike many of his counterparts who engage in gratuitous kidnapping and murder, El Chapo is a businessman first, and only resorts to violence when he deems it advantageous to himself or his business interests.

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.

Following Bergson, the élan vital is obliged to interact with dead matter in order to actualize itself in the various finite forms it «wants to take» (I grant that speaking of the élan vital as if it has desires is a gratuitous personification, but it is difficult to avoid this manner of speaking, since the élan vital is the ground of all actual desire).

The punishment he takes is gratuitous, and I can't help the feeling that in the near future, we'll be seeing him slurring words and acting abnormally.

And because Chewie will no longer let us go take pictures in the stairwell without begging to come along, here are your gratuitous dog photobombs.

We also did some gratuitous posing and thankfully for me the girls were willing to take a few outfit shots for me since I left my camera at home.

If we took all the dark humor, the protagonist rudeness and the gratuitous violence out of Deadpool: The Videogame, we would be talking about a worthless game.

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

In the films that have become the face of this comedic tradition, lowest - common - denominator pop - culture references take the place of jokes, and gratuitous raunch takes the place of zany cleverness.

The gratuitous parade of celebrity cameos boasts John le Carré, Damon Albarn, Mark Rylance, Brian Eno, Ken Loach and Richard Branson, though it's unclear if all of them took to the streets.

Really, it's choppy and butt - ugly, mixing gratuitous and reliably incompetent automotive mayhem with Berry's porno - orgasmic howls of gnashing over-reaction: «Oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, they took my son.»

But I have to say, I'd never take on a role that was truly gratuitous for no reason.

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.

Sadly, my vow to never sit through another Farrelly Brothers yak - track remains unbroken, as it takes all of three minutes for their conversation to devolve into arcane trainspotting here: that's when they start furnishing the child actors playing Fallon's students with gratuitous biographies.

Whilst that I can acknowledge that it did take the film in a slightly different direction, and tried to do something a little different than the original (for example letting Murphy retain his memory whereas in the original Murphy was wiped or delving more into the family life of Murphy both as a human and as RoboCop), but for me it missed out on having the main villain, it cashed in on using the original them tune (which to be honest I did kinda like), the shoe - horning in of some of the original one liners that really felt out of place, there was tonnes of CGI which unfortunately is to be expected these days and I felt it was considerably toned down to appeal more to the younger audience, losing the over gratuitous violence and blood that the original had which in my opinion gave it some of the charm that it still has today.

One thing never in dispute, though, was that driveability should take precedence over gratuitous displays of outright grunt.

The internet especially has make it easier for sly lenders to mislead and take advantage of naïve consumers using any number of tricks, from quoting bogus rates over the telephone to slipping gratuitous costs into their loans.

What happens when you take the TPS style of Gears of War, the visual aesthetics of Metal Gear and throw in some gratuitous violence together in a blender?

By Michael Sagoe (mikedot) What happens when you take the TPS style of Gears of War, the visual aesthetics of Metal Gear and throw in some gratuitous vi...

It's impossible to ignore the idea that «3D - breasts» were a huge selling - point for the game; when the students take a certain amount of damage, or are on the receiving end of a special - attack, her clothing is incrimently destroyed; at the start of each Mission, players have the option of activating «Frantic» mode - the character will shed her clothes (she fights in a bikini) and her attack - power will increase, at the cost of her defenses; during «Shinobi Transformation» sequences, players are also shown some rather gratuitous fan - service angles of their character between the change from one outfit to another...

So you can believe people who tell you it's offensive and gratuitous to point out Canada's warts, or you can take a good long look in a mirror.

Witness for starters the barely veiled racism of «Rising Sun» (those Orientals are pretty inscrutable aren't they; and they don't take any prisoners), the gratuitous sexism of «Disclosure» (women in the business world are incompetents who will use sexual harassment suits as a way to cover their inability to manage).

For you — who within a few interactions started throwing around accusations of dishonesty — to complain of another's «gratuitous offensiveness» takes the biscuit.

The decision of the Court of Appeal in Hayden v Hayden [1992] 1 WLR 986, [1992] 4 All ER 681, in which the gratuitous services of the defendant father were taken into account in assessing the child's loss of dependency following the death of her mother, has for years been distinguished in subsequent cases without ever being overruled.

Instead, claims for gratuitous services must be carefully scrutinized, both with respect to the nature of the services — were they simply part of the usual «give and take» between family members, or did they go «above and beyond» that level?