Sentences with phrase «without gratuitous»

What would a week in Hollywood be without gratuitous nudity, bikini selfies and genetically blessed bubs?

* It would have been more effective without the gratuitous reference to testosterone, which doesn't at all suit an academic / finance type like Hewson.

I would imagine that may be a turn - off for females who may have wanted something without the gratuitous sex appeal that's in every game...

Besides giving its occupants a fine ride in stylish surroundings without gratuitous luxury trappings, it's downright fun to drive.

It felt like a crossbreed between a Guy Ritchie mystery and a Quentin Tarantino crime flick, just without the gratuitous violence.

It's actually a welcome change to have nice kids share the screen and have conversations without gratuitous violence, profanity or nudity.

Finally, one aspect that Vacancy does right by me is providing a suspenseful plot without the gratuitous violence or gore of low - grade horror films.

Without gratuitous violence and only minor amounts of other content, this movie may be one of the best choices this summer for older children and teens that want action without unnecessary amounts of language and sexual depictions.

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

Not exact matches

The first couple of books start out as typical «solve - this - murder» sort of books (without being gory or cruel or gratuitous, it's more about the story and the characters)-- very satisfying Saturday night read — but as the books go forward, the layers and complex storytelling becomes even more clear and right around book three or four you begin to realise that everything is connected and everything means something and something major is unfolding and OMG MUST KEEP READING.

The statement that one can be religious without attending church is seen by some as a new, gratuitous assault on organized religion.

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.

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.»

He exhibits a brevity and wit sorely missing elsewhere as professional thinkers struggle to make a point without positively paving the reader over with gratuitous jargon.

Credit: momontimeout.com via Lisa on Pinterest Chocolate Stout Cake Okay, okay — this last one is completely gratuitous, but how can you make a list like this without including a recipe for chocolate cake?!

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.

What's appealing about Bond is precisely its unhip classicism — its promise of clean, crisp excitement delivered without the interference of whiplash - inducing camera pyrotechnics, attention - deficient editing patterns, gratuitous color tinting and / or ear - splitting rock ballads.

For the team behind the «Captain Underpants» movie, striking a tone that captured the anarchic and irreverent spirit of the books without tipping over into gratuitous juvenile humor or excessive brattiness involved a tricky balancing act.

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.

The action and violence can be heavy duty without ever feeling gratuitous or relying on excessive gore or torture.

This time, Reeves cranks up the pace — without rushing it — and cranks up the gore — without being gratuitous.

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.

The violence is never as ferocious as in Nicolas Winding Refn's «Bronson» (it makes its point without being gratuitous), but director David Mackenzie doesn't sugarcoat anything either, providing an unfiltered look at what happens when the red mist descends on these wild men.

Nestled within that is a perfect demonstration of perspective and editing, as Renoir cuts between our heroine on a swing and unseen reaction shots of men around her to capture her burgeoning sexuality and her innocence without any need for gratuitous shots or explicit voiceover.

When a now - gratuitous Marvel Easter egg occurs two - frames removed from full frontal nudity, you know all parties dove into the «blue» without a second guess, which is maybe the surprise of the film.

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.

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.

Profound without ever being didactic, sordid without being gratuitous, above all the film succeeds by deftly dancing between the poles of dark and light, allowing for both cheap jump scares and sophisticated and subtle moments of performance.

The seemingly gratuitous Sears reference is not without somber purpose.

By submitting a Photo, you agree that your submission is gratuitous, made without restriction, will not place American Honda under any obligation and that we are free to disclose or otherwise disclose the ideas contained in the photo on a non-confidential basis to anyone or otherwise use the ideas without any additional compensation to you.

By submitting any Idea, you agree that your disclosure is gratuitous, unsolicited and without restriction and will not place Company under any fiduciary or other obligation, and that we are free to use the Idea without any additional compensation to you, and / or to disclose the Idea on a non-confidential basis or otherwise to anyone.

By submitting any Idea, you agree that your disclosure is gratuitous, unsolicited and without restriction and will not place Company under any fiduciary or other obligation, and that we are free to use the Idea without any additional compensation to you, and / or to disclose the Idea on a non-confidential basis or otherwise to anyone.

The gratuitous ad hominem attack on a family man when combined with confused aspersions aimed a Bastardi tell a different story — i.e., the Left is seriously lost at sea without Bush to blame and their cries that we are all headed for the edge of the world make humanity look small indeed.

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.

Moreover, the «vice versa» (that once children are in a flip - flop custody situation, they will begin to «function well with their mothers») is not only gratuitous, but is meaningless: a beautiful example of the nonsensical and robotic application without thought of politically correct gender neutralism.