Which isn't to say they're gratuitous, or gratuitous without reason, if that makes sense.
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If it's gratuitous for gratuitous sake, then I will discuss with a director on how to make it more subtle.
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Readers sometimes object to "gratuitous sex" or "gratuitous violence," on the ground that the graphic depiction of these things can reduce complex relationships to carnal fundamentals.
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Really nothing to criticize, except maybe the gratuitous puking scene.
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And we don't mean the constant and gratuitous cocaine use.
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To every reviewer that found The Underground Railroad gratuitous in
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I'm not interested in doing gratuitous sex for no reason.
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These last two especially are more gratuitous flourishes than conveniences.
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Like Price, Venus has not been a gratuitous attention seeker.
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I would probably have to pass on just gratuitous violence.
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His inventions were at times gratuitous and other times breathtaking.
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He conveniently fails to mention his gratuitous statement that Mrs.
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That all the suffering had become too much, even gratuitous?
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I find it hard to excuse gratuitous depictions of violence.
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Yes, this is gratuitous automotive theater and a marketing ploy.
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Some of Albinati's accounts of his own sexual exploits seem so purely gratuitous, in this banal sense, that they undermine the more robust idea of the gratuitous on which his very long novel depends.
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As on the cover, celebrating Britishness is pushed to gratuitous lengths.
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But the point is that this nudity is, in fact, gratuitous.
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"Gossip can be gratuitous, without any purpose beyond entertainment," he acknowledged.
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"I don't like gratuitous violence against women at all," she said.
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Cronenberg utilizes a lot of body horror, but it's never gratuitous.
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Actually, the gratuitous damage he has just done is no joke.
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It was gratuitous, demeaning, and upsetting to a lot of people.
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But his approach doesn't rely just on removing gratuitous high notes.
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It's worth noting that this parade of unabashed sexuality isn't gratuitous.
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It's "Spartacus" with half the gratuitous violence and considerably less sex.
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Give me all this weird, gratuitous horse footage you've got, AMC.
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But this particular genital sighting is about more than gratuitous nudity.
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Gratuitous double-height spaces make for inefficiencies in your mechanical systems.
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I'll receive that, and any gratuitous sequels, like a royal visit.
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Several of these "games" end in a lot of gratuitous death.
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Expect the nicknames to get nastier and the attacks more gratuitous.
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It's extortion," he said, calling the administration's actions "gratuitous and retaliatory.
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Mr. Trump's gratuitous, schoolyard abuse of Mr. Sessions is nonetheless breathtaking.
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"A lot of the times they seemed gratuitous or exploitative," she said.
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"Lyft seems gratuitous in its one-off donation," wrote one anonymous panelist.
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There's plenty of room for debate over where the "gratuitous" line falls.
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That's gratuitous and unnecessary and terrible for your exhausted precious crotch. Really?
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Very rude, very gratuitous, extremely accurate on the football merits, extremely memorable.
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That crime is the novel's link to the conceit of the gratuitous.
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There is, pointedly, no cable-standard gratuitous female nudity in Sharp Objects.
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One viewer even coined the term "sexposition" to describe the gratuitous nudity.
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In this case, the use of a violent photo was not gratuitous.
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We don't just cut away to a rather gratuitous, icky sex scene.
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Orman is offering the service pro bono through a gratuitous service agreement.
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The world's most gratuitous and hefty masturbation device is now a reality.
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She finds validation in gratuitous sex with loathsome men with bad teeth.
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The violence done to the hero's body by his torturers seemed gratuitous.
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If we've gotta have another somewhat gratuitous reboot, that's probably justification enough.
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Audience members criticized the flick's gratuitous nudity, lackluster dialogue, and extreme gore.
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And for the first 15 minutes of the match, that seemed gratuitous.
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So what is the point of this law apart from gratuitous cruelty?
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We still see gratuitous photos of people jamming needles into their bodies.
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Under the circumstances, the bleak subject matter could easily have felt gratuitous.
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The movie is a gratuitous indulgence that also happens to be provocative.
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No spray of blood is too powerful; no sex scene too gratuitous.
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How did you make sure the love scene was respectful and not gratuitous?
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Baron Cohen is a comedian who's often gone for the gratuitous, but what's
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Within about 60 seconds, Nick is already starring in a gratuitous shirtless montage.
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Don't write a gratuitous 'haha' back to something you don't think is funny.
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On the downside there'd be no swearing and a lack of gratuitous violence.
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It also casts gratuitous suspicion on the relationship between the Maldives and China.
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And usually, as it was in my case, the nudity is so gratuitous.
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The gratuitous shot at Paul's looks was an entirely Trumpian non sequitur. 2.
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But the gratuitous stuff it does, it gets a little old sometimes, right?
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Most people probably expect at least some gratuitous flesh from a Baywatch remake.
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The new Uber intro sequence is so gratuitous and futuristic and awesome. pic.twitter.
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Nostalgia for a more innocent age of gratuitous nudity, gunplay and cigarette smoking.
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It's hard to ignore the gratuitous excess, the worrisome superficiality, the aqueous extravagance.
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An extraordinary and gratuitous act of violence took place in Slovyansk that day.
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No, the filing was just a vicious and gratuitous attack on L.G.B.T. Americans.
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" Federal prosecutors, however, said during the hearing that Collins's actions were "totally gratuitous.
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I've been pretty patient with your attacks, which are completely gratuitous, for years.
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"Nothing can explain such cowardly and gratuitous acts," Couillard said in the statement.
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Indeed, in America, gratuitous cruelty has often been directed at people of color.
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It is a gratuitous, costly, deliciously absurd creation, whose intoxicating fragrance enraptures the audience.
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Jay tweeted about the interview -- pointing out Boosie's gratuitous use of the n-word.
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But there are also a lot of gratuitous visual nods to the original series.
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If that player happens to be prone to gratuitous legato runs, all the better.
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"Although obviously you don't want it to feel gratuitous," he adds to Mr. Porter.
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They barred depictions of pornography, criminal acts, gratuitous violence, threats, spam, and hate speech.
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And that the more gratuitous violence it pumps into your News Feed the better?
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DuVernay includes tough-to-watch videos and photos as evidence, but none are gratuitous.
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"We felt that it wasn't gratuitous," Feud showrunner Tim Minear told The Hollywood Reporter.
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I give myself permission to do some gratuitous things like that and enjoy it.
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The severity of her self-exile from the United States struck me as gratuitous.
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The result was mixed; often, as in Ms. Morales's show, the innovations felt gratuitous.
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There's plenty in the Trump administration to excoriate without any gratuitous huffing and puffing.
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The scene is powerful in its sheer brutality, but is it necessary or gratuitous?
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Your spontaneous confession of disliking physical contact with men seems gratuitous, but who cares?
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Centipedes make cameo appearances, while intimations of child abuse and stalking are wholly gratuitous.
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He's shirtless — gratuitous fanservice for Bachelor Nation — and suddenly, hands appear all over him.
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Gratuitous provocation has been the only thing that has consistently paid dividends for Trump.
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He even took a gratuitous shot at people who use TurboTax, for some reason.
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The Australian confrontation has gotten the most press, probably because it's so weirdly gratuitous.
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By 1995, the gratuitous sexualization of women in video games had reached its peak.
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Critics argue not only that it is gratuitous but also that it is unconstitutional.
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It also included Piazza taking a gratuitous shot at the city of St. Louis.
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It is not gratuitous that Leticia and her compatriots have strong and well-formed arms.
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France were magnificent with Zidane ascendant, a phoenix from the ashes of gratuitous disciplinary issues.
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The subwoofer adds a hefty thump to proceedings, but it can feel gratuitous at times.
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But when these stories feel exploitative, thoughtless, or gratuitous, they can lead to trauma fatigue.
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It feels like a polite nod to the female gaze, rather than anything specifically gratuitous.
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The very long novel is even more gratuitous in Italian than it is in English.
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It felt that adding gratuitous uncertainty to interest rates would deter speculative inflows of capital.
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But the kissing always seems gratuitous, more so than any sex scene in any movie.
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It&aposs just gratuitous violence that&aposs unnecessary and does no good for the city.
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But most of Californication, a series well-known for its gratuitous nudity, survived Amazon's airbrushing.
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Does the addition of gratuitous violence and advances in filmmaking and storytelling make it better?
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The word that kept coming to mind while watching Handmaid's Tale Season 2 was: gratuitous.
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She has never been out to get anybody, and her anger has never been gratuitous.
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"The Americans" can be very violent, and it occasionally includes torture, though it's not gratuitous.
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Perhaps even a few years ago, Dietland might have seemed gratuitous; a show about extremism.
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Nearly a gratuitous note, but I think it's the only time we actually did that.
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Still, much of the menace and violence perpetrated by women in "The Power" seems gratuitous.
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But Legacy Records uses it in a gratuitous and offhanded way that made me uncomfortable.
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But the result doesn't feel grim or gratuitous; it's a public service announcement against superstardom.
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I learned that it rarely pays to neglect or underestimate Russia, or display gratuitous disrespect.
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And while the picture is startling, it's not gory or sensational in a gratuitous way.
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Yes, and our intention is never to offend or upset readers with gratuitous, unwanted visuals.
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And ok, it includes some gratuitous shots of the nose-dicks rubbing all over one another.
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But that positive influence doesn&apost outweigh the "gratuitous violence" Van Hook demonstrated, the board said.
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What would Instagram be without the gratuitous pictures of your friends' and acquaintances' fancy, foamy coffees?
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Not so the very long novel: impractical, gratuitous, it has to justify itself as it goes.
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Female comics characters have likewise evolved in reaction to regressive tropes — in particular their gratuitous sexualization.
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But we all want the same thing: an end to gratuitous nudity in the Seven Kingdoms.
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You never see a gratuitous penis flapping about on-screen but I've seen so many boobies.
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According to the President-Elect, it won't be the gratuitous, gold-dipped space some have imagined.
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The gratuitous use of antibiotics also means that antibiotic resistance is becoming more and more common.
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In Newcastle, seemingly gratuitous arrows point toward the marked spaces, while Naples opts for blue markers.
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Fox will not allow this flagrant injustice, riddled with errors and gratuitous character attacks, to stand.
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That it wasn't a sort of gratuitous thing, but just from or love for the music.
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"What happens here is nothing more than gratuitous porn," the Hollywood Reporter's Boyd van Hoeij wrote.
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It fails to perceive why our Framers opposed emoluments of all types — including gratuitous election assistance.
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Hollywood action films in the mid 1990s were about megastars, B-story romances, and gratuitous explosions.
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Some of those questions, like, "Did Salem the cat actually talk?" are just gratuitous, silly nostalgia.
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It is clear that most Saudis despise the Islamic State's gratuitous violence, especially toward other Muslims.
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Of course, two days of gratuitous and self-defeating Trump bombast and threats preceded this resolution.
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The moves seemed a little more than forced, and the gratuitous twerking didn't seem to end.
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So if rural America is suffering, a large part of the explanation is gratuitous political cruelty.
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In places the story staggers under the weight of unwieldy plot mechanics and gratuitous emotional explication.
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In the funniest, most gratuitous tangent, a member of Merrimen's crew played by Curtis Jackson, a.k.a.
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He has sent her countless tips throughout the decades, some touting clients and some "gratuitous" items.
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It is, in fact, gratuitous, because it provides no explanation and offers no legal path forward.
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That's a widely held position, but its gratuitous enunciation doesn't make Israelis' hearts go pitter patter.
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I don't even know what to say about the gratuitous rape scene in the mental hospital.
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In short, it's not gratuitous, which feels like a minor miracle after watching, say, Game of Thrones.
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It's a trailer targeted solely at those who loved the book, or will love the gratuitous callbacks.
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But why does gratuitous violence make a film festival-worthy, when so many other films are not?
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Of the novel's many forays into ideas, the richest is its exploration of "the gratuitous," la gratuità .
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They will also executive produce, so let's hope they opt for gratuitous screams rather than fart jokes.
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On the one hand, it gives weight to critics' claims of gratuitous sexual violence on the show.
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Not all of them have to do with Earhart, but there's a gratuitous amount of bone jokes.
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On release, the movie was criticized for its gratuitous violence, a complaint that entirely misses the point.
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Everyone is nude at some point, it's rooted in reality, but when it's gratuitous it's just frustrating.
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Facebook's aggression with Messenger looks especially gratuitous when you consider it also owns mobile messaging giant WhatsApp.
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He throws an unremarkable cross-court pass and adds a gratuitous no-look head-whap to it.
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No more accepting his gratuitous offers of signing ceremonies, White House cocktails, or meetings with his children.
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The FCC responded in a statement on Monday, accusing Tshisekedi of launching "gratuitous attacks and unfounded allegations".
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But even if it's not dangerous, we've been taught that the appendix is basically a gratuitous organ.
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He accused Macron on Monday of leveling "unreasonable and gratuitous attacks on the Amazon," according to CNN.
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It's that the level of barf was so excessive and gratuitous that it made the scenes unwatchable.
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Some deemed the images gratuitous, excessive, and even offensive — and those are just the comments on Instagram.
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Anything with excessive hair gel, high-sheen synths, or non-gratuitous violence was left in the dust.
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But those involved with "Westworld" defend it as a key, and non-gratuitous, part of the narrative.
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The Guggenheim Museum was right to pull three cruel and gratuitous animal displays from its new show.
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Sometimes the deliberately ink-as-blood-splotched aesthetic of the book feels gratuitous — sensationalizing already dramatic images.
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Its creators say it's an unglamorous death, and they worked hard to make sure it wasn't gratuitous.
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The violence is gratuitous, yet stylish; upsetting, but in a way, you're meant to cheer along too.
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It wouldn't be a fitting sendoff for The CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend without a gratuitous karaoke moment.
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Rich Lowry, the editor of the conservative National Review, was especially gratuitous in his criticism of Bannon.
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But the piece isn't sordid or gratuitous; instead, it boldly proclaims and subverts taboo with punk flair.
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Trigger warning: This week's roundup includes what might be a gratuitous swipe at Oscar-adjacent actor Michael Keaton.
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"This gratuitous torture of a cat has us at a loss for words," said HSU representative Deann Shepherd.
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The company is emphasizing it's looking for "different" content, as long as it has substance and isn't gratuitous.
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The video takes inspiration from classic American western films, complete with cowboy hats, vintage cars, and gratuitous fringe.
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Additional Thoughts - This episode had a lot less sexual violence and gratuitous nudity than in the previous season.
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Recipe: 1 part American Psycho1 part Trainspotting1 part "the club"Sprinkle with gratuitous sex and violence to taste.
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The movie thus develops themes, instead of relying on survival quest and gratuitous ass-shots for its thrust.
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It's so much more than a gratuitous sex scene, and it is getting the proper recognition as such.
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Most surprising, perhaps, have been Graham's lukewarm responses to Trump's gratuitous attacks on the recently deceased Sen. McCain.
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The president's gratuitous disregard for genuine nuclear threats is matched by his evident indifference to worldwide human rights.
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Whether that is a good thing or not depends on your stomach for gratuitous violence and graphic scenes.
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I saw that a lot of the critics were saying it was gratuitous, but I don't necessarily agree.
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Touting the virtues and benefits of vitamin C feels needlessly gratuitous when most of us already know them.
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But the Yankees, with their deep, dominating bullpen, are built to make a man of Lynn's talents gratuitous.
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"I was informed by the White House counsel's office that all gratuitous volunteer contracts were ended," she said.
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The decision has garnered outsized attention, as if it's another gratuitous Trumpian obstacle on the road to peace.
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Where Schneiderman described Trump's decision as "gratuitous," the same description could be leveled against much of this complaint.
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It now looks like the president has confused United States policy and given Mr. Maduro a gratuitous gift.
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In the '80s, with the Reagan revolution, gratuitous displays of wealth became popular again, and balls did, too.
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Mr. Porgo's family, though, were not the only ones jarred by the brutal, gratuitous nature of the attack.
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In the grand tradition of exploitation cinema, Hunters feeds into the most gratuitous impulses of a Jewish audience.
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Yes, that allows me to bring some personal expertise to the topic, but it also just seems gratuitous.
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Cohen aided their mission by offering an opening statement laced with unnecessary and gratuitous barbs about Trump's character.
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A federal judge could simply declare that an executive order is "gratuitous" or too "devastating" to be allowed.
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" She adds ... "For me, it's the gratuitous violence that this film glorifies and elevates with the Joker character.
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If we were to simply stop inflicting gratuitous pain on animals, that would be a huge step forward.
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Luhrmann's 3-D Great Gatsby adaptation was a gratuitous, painful mess that made the 1970s failure of an adaptation seem genius by comparison, but it's also a perfect example of Luhrmann's directing style: Gratuitous, self-consciously stylized, and somehow so loud and in-your-face that it winds up being boring.
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But the typical criticisms of gratuitous scenes like this may not fit as well as they used to either.
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Entertainment and several producers from the show claiming they asked her gratuitous questions, including: -- How often do you masturbate?
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That was followed by the Daily Mail running even more gratuitous photos, prompting a "revenge porn" lawsuit from Hill.
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But behind the gratuitous selfies and humble-brags, the socialite is hard at work on his own clothing brand.
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Some flash-forwards are jarring and confusing, others feel gratuitous, and keeping track of the chronology becomes a struggle.
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The effect is painful, but the careful organization of the musical material makes it more than merely gratuitous suffering.
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More broadly, he regards this notion of the gratuitous as a key that unlocks the mysteries of contemporary life.
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Though it does show the violence and emotional trauma they went through, it doesn't rest on gratuitous torture porn.
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Yes. But Sex and the City served a solid dose of cheese alongside every gratuitous shot of Carrie's footwear.
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"Often, you're trying to decide if it's gratuitous or not," McAdams, 39, said of filming the movie's sex scene.
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Each successive sequel was worse than the last, culminating in the gratuitous machismo nightmare that was 2008's Rambo.
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There are more Tomcats and a few Corsairs, more people, more steam, and even more gratuitous graduated tobacco filters.
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This show is pretty free of gratuitous tits so I'll let this scene slide without too many eye rolls.
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Twenty-eight Major League teams and a hilariously gratuitous contingent of media understood the reason why we had gathered.
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Burned out from gratuitous faculty meetings, undergraduate grading, and grinding East Coast winters, she felt a little entombed herself.
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He refers to a recent report of the Texas Department of Public Safety that essentially destroys his gratuitous analysis.
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Aside from a gratuitous (but totally welcome) opening shot of Ventimiglia's bare bottom, everything about it turned me off.
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Yet, it's possible to find a balance between trying to inform the public and publishing gratuitous portrayals of suicide.
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They still want to keep their taxes low, just without the dysfunction — and gratuitous cruelty — of the current administration.
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I'm neither an old man nor obese, but I am someone offended by this kind of gratuitous, needless insinuation.
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If you want to see several scenes of gratuitous violence against women, then this is the show for you.
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Or why so many G.O.P. leaders twisted and turned after his petulant, gratuitous attack on a Mexican-American judge.
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But it was certainly gratuitous, which fits—mascots, after all, are nothing if not Extra in the modern parlance.
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Despite its commercial success, critics couldn't get on board with the film's gore and torture, citing it as gratuitous.
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It's hard, however, to think of a calamity as gratuitous, an error as unforced, as the current federal shutdown.
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He rounded the whole thing off with a gratuitous mention of Inter, the team he turned into European champions.
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We kill things in our games, too, but there's a difference between what we do and just being gratuitous.
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There are gratuitous shots of the Enterprise, complete with the musical riff familiar to Trek fans of multiple generations.
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They also tend to document their actions extensively, which makes the occasional use of reenactments here feel especially gratuitous.
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Even the relatively sensible long suffering girlfriend, Isabel (Angela Trimbur), has to endure gratuitous humiliation through Mr. Bates's lens.
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Mark Zuckerberg is gratuitous in saying that the social-empathy calculus improves with making available more information about others.
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I'm not a prude, but gratuitous blue material to me is not only not classy, it's a cheap laugh.
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It is not simply a gratuitous insult to millions of Russian Americans, but a careless exercise of congressional authority.
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Corrupt policemen, seeming good guys who bend the rules, gratuitous violence, criminals killing other criminals: That's the "Narcos" style.
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The evocation of the religious space seems just as gratuitous as the pussy words — a hodgepodge of appropriation without interrogation.
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A male-directed movie about a young blonde ingenue rising to pop stardom felt like a recipe for gratuitous objectification.
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Rather, these uses were gratuitous and, according to many critics, harmful from the point of view of the people represented.
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The more I sat with these vivacious paintings, the more metaphorical and thus less gratuitous the work became to me.
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The carousel UI is all over the place, the multiple front-facing cameras are gratuitous, and the design is clunky.
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"The Disney XD policy does not allow for gratuitous violence in programming that children may be viewing," the spokesperson said.
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At least HBO hit (and far surpassed) its weekly quota for gratuitous nudity this week with the orgy in Pariah.
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It could have been overkill, but it's a pleasantly disquieting ride, devoid — thank God — of gratuitous, doll-themed horror visuals.
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Gunning down feral hogs is gratuitous, and possibly even ineffective: The Post noted that Texas wildlife officials have warned that .
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Science fiction may not have to reflect reality, but this seems like a pretty major and gratuitous departure from it.
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Figures in the industry whispered to the Hollywood Reporter that executives have become skittish about greenlighting films with gratuitous sex.
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" The American Civil Liberties Union blasted the DOJ's position as a "gratuitous and extraordinary attack on LGBT people's civil rights.
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Moreover, Sullivan's prose is so gratuitous, so nearly unhinged, that it's impossible not to wonder what he's really enraged about.
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The Braves, for instance, sent lefty reliever Evan Rutckyj and his gratuitous consonant back to the Yankees on March 18.
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But all of this connectivity is like nudity on TV: it feels natural in some places and gratuitous in others.
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But the movie keeps a lighthearted tone with a "Pineapple Express"-like soundtrack and gratuitous close-ups of weed strains.
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These sections are hard to read, but never gratuitous, and, like the whole book, feel emotionally true at each beat.
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Interviews can be gratuitous, and with a cult of personality surrounding many artists, it gets annoyingly beside the point sometimes.
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Miguel Pereira makes nearly forty mentions of his racial background—mostly gratuitous—in the three hundred pages of her biography.
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He picks gratuitous fights — with the widow of a slain soldier, with the father of a detained college basketball player.
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Felver may situate his tales from New York through Ohio up to Montana but their gratuitous savagery homogenizes these settings.
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I generally shy away from the gratuitous use of JQXZ-type letters because usually it results in lower quality fill.
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I would call it an unpleasant and gratuitous assault on the hapless theatergoer — one to be avoided at all costs.
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His tariffs have caused gratuitous and serious damage to the US economy, the world economy and the global trading system.
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Greenwell's superpower is writing sex scenes that, while at once unsettling and vividly detailed, avoid the feeling of being gratuitous.
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Critics and pundits argued over what they viewed as Tarantino's use of gratuitous violence, racism, and perceived lack of morality.
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Mr. Scaramucci's language was particularly tricky because it represented not just gratuitous profanity, but personal denigration using crude anatomical references.
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Certainly, in just 10 tumultuous days as president of the United States, Trump has demonstrated a streak of gratuitous cruelty.
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If President Donald Trump wants to crack down on gratuitous video game violence, he had better prepare for a fight.
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The "numerous demonstrations" all over France "have frequently been accompanied by gratuitous violence, assaults, vandalism and destruction," the court said.
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It would be gratuitous to pick on a modern-day U2 lyric, and I do not intend to do so.
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In this case, the egg stunt was a little gimmicky, at least in terms of gratuitous promotional material for Hulu.
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To the extent that incarceration has reduced crime (as it surely has), it has done so inefficiently and with gratuitous harshness.
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It's also a pretty good way to print out gratuitous bunny photos, if you're in the market for such a thing.
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While the whole thing felt gratuitous, it did pave the way for some truly hilarious memes, and Twitter did not disappoint.
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Have you been in other circumstances where you felt that love scenes or other gratuitous sexual moments were diluting a film?
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While we wouldn't necessarily dub this the follow up to her Ice Bucket Challenge, it is indeed worth a gratuitous watch.
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Sharp soundtracked the on-screen soul-swallowing with phasing drones, pounding toms fed through gratuitous delay, and a bed of feedback.
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" While underdressed people in most underwear ads may be considered appropriate, "gratuitous use of an overtly sexual nature will be unacceptable.
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It's frankly shocking, in light of the gratuitous nudity embraced by the screen version, that this wasn't adopted for the show.
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But whatever their differences, each, when cornered, will deny facts and tar opponents with flagrantly false accusations and wildly gratuitous smears.
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The key difference is that Truman was an unwitting victim, while many of us are happily complicit in the gratuitous oversharing.
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They believe the Twitter essay is a futile, gratuitous, and narcissistic bid for attention—an assault, even, on the Twitter community.
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But what's refreshing is that neither the female nor male nudity (what Newman and Buffini call "equal opportunity nudity") feels gratuitous.
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Game of Thrones is a show infamous for its gratuitous sex scenes, rampant sexual assault, and countless scenes of female nudity.
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Tasha: The Wolverine segment seemed mighty gratuitous, but I enjoyed watching the young X-Men react to him in awed terror.
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If this situation continues unabated it will cause extreme harm to future generations and eventually a gratuitous loss of human life.
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What Popeye's lacks in caucasity it more than makes up for in shitty labor practices, animal cruelty, and gratuitous trans fats.
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Rather, as in the "womp womp" moment, he's a representative figure of the presidency and its driving impulses of gratuitous meanness.
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I thought ENAMELWARE was actually kind of a gratuitous misdirection until I looked up all the pretty things you can get.
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Despite its reputation for gratuitous violence — or maybe because of it — the franchise has become an iconic part of pop culture.
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With female backers, they also weren't subject to the normal demands of studio filmmaking: no gratuitous nudity or foregrounded love stories.
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"Hands of Stone" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian) for language and almost hilariously gratuitous nudity.
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But the emotional curveballs the show throws don't ever feel gratuitous, due to the mostly-effective pacing and Platt's grounding performance.
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The film that Hannaford is making, meanwhile, features lots of nudity, nearly all of it female and most of it gratuitous.
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After the most gratuitous of dick shots in the history of dick shots, we meet the actress Arya is to kill.
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Finally, here was a place where I could indulge in all the gratuitous wedding talk I wanted, anonymously and guilt-free.
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That's not to say there isn't a relief, and maybe a sense of respect, in avoiding gratuitous images of Bundy's victims.
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America pays for such gratuitous grandstanding with loss of influence in Africa and in multilateral institutions where we need African support.
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Such florid unpleasantries feel all the more gratuitous because the most compelling aspects of "Boy Swallows Universe" come from real life.
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For another, a comparison of mere death rates does not take into account the barbarism of gratuitous violence committed against prisoners.
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Annoyed, I noted that I wouldn't even have thought to text him if he hadn't blanketed me with such gratuitous flattery.
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We ignored the gratuitous feedback and went on with our lives — our attention focused on raising a good and obedient dog.
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There are too many gratuitous photos of people jamming needles into their bodies and bloated corpses carried out of filthy homes.
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Seems like Michelle doesn't wanna hear gratuitous cuss words throughout, so she throws on the family-friendly filter for good measure.
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He gives us the gratuitous example of his patient with seasonal allergies who comes to see him unnecessarily every few weeks.
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The Mississippi of the late 19th century was a rigid apartheid state, its criminal justice system defined by cruel, gratuitous punishment.
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Now, I will never defend Trump's gratuitous insults to so many groups, especially the grieving parents of a fallen American soldier.
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This trend goes beyond the gratuitous queso shots and yolk porn of years past — it's more about the process, the craft.
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"It was a gratuitous drive-by that you wanted to smear the ranking member," Collins charged, aiming his frustration at Goldman.
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No gratuitous insults, no personal threats or childish tantrum — only judges and lawyers debating complex legal issues with respect and restraint.
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Russian intelligence is not known to run "colluders" in carrying out secret operations and rarely expose their operations in gratuitous meetings.
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One part '103s nostalgia and two parts gratuitous violence towards women, American Psycho is a scary staple with widely mixed reviews.
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The average unemployment rate over the past decade was 6.3 percent, which translates into millions of person-years of gratuitous joblessness.
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NFC NORTH The Minnesota Vikings stayed alive in Week 14 by driving a gratuitous nail into the Jaguars well-sealed coffin.
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That set the stage for Thursday, when Trump talked tough on Assad and avoided making another gratuitous dig at his predecessor.
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My stomach turned when she walks into her lovely house in her high heels to that gratuitous infant playing on the floor.
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Over the course of his acting career, Hemsworth has graced us with smoldering stares, gratuitous shirtlessness and, of course, high-quality performances.
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Kanye West never leaves our news cycle — whether he's there to stir up boring, gratuitous social media controversy or simply share music.
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The term "the gratuitous" appropriated Christian claims about God's grace, freedom, and inscrutability, applying them to human actions in a godless world.
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There are so many reasons to love Halloween: parties, gratuitous amounts of sugar and the opportunity to wear absolutely anything you want.
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So as not to shock us too much with that hairstyle, she labeled the pic, "Gratuitous donkey shot in wig," on Instagram.
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Scenes depicting physical intimacy between the two women—too often an opportunity for gratuitous nudity or pornified raunchiness—are handled deftly here.
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Or for someone to give you a heads up that the film you're about to see contains a gratuitous sexual abuse scene?
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When Halloween movie marathons roll around every October, we have to wonder: When did gratuitous gore become the norm for scary movies?
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The sudden nudity isn't gratuitous (although welcome, judging from the gasps in the audience, and the major Twitter attention it's been getting).
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Mostly, London Has Fallen relies on gratuitous violence and sadism to break up the tedium, but even the kills get old eventually.
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"Instead of prepping for that meeting and strategizing for that meeting, he's calling reporters in to level gratuitous, outrageous charges," he said.
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The Policy team worked quickly with the legal department to relax its gratuitous violence policy, on the fly creating a newsworthiness exemption.
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President Trump's reference to Director Comey's alleged three-time denial that the President was under investigation is incredible and gratuitous at best.
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This rape was the catalyst for her revenge storyline, but some fans felt it was gratuitous, and others were turned off entirely.
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In our gratuitous, sweat-inducing search of thousands of Madonna looks, we noticed something similar with all of those red carpet appearances.
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The duets when Ms. Canuso and Mr. Sobelle finally come together, rolling around and throwing in gratuitous headstands, are thin and mawkish.
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The grocers who lived in cramped quarters attached to their downstairs shops have long given way to gratuitous fashion and electronic boutiques.
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It turns gay sex into nothing but a shocking cartoon—a gratuitous punchline, the foil for the uptight yank telling the story.
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And even when AQAP publicizes punishments, their videos and photographs never show the level of gratuitous gore that Islamic State revels in.
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Those waiting periods are little more than roadblocks, filled with gratuitous logistical hassles, paperwork and government-authored pedagogical materials riddled with misinformation.
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Not only is it unscientific; it's gratuitous, and Pinker ends up undermining his own arguments with a tendency to overstate his case.
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For the most part, though, the multiple allusions to canonical ballets feel gratuitous — ingenious but discrete, like many of the production's ideas.
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"Putting aside that they are inaccurate and wholly gratuitous, the government's demeaning attacks on (Health Choice) are legally irrelevant," the brief said.
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That group expanded the lawsuit last month to include the "gratuitous Chinese trademarks" among the examples of violations of the Emoluments provision.
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This gratuitous publication will horrify many, inspire a few, and, by a small but perceptible increment, further desensitize the rest of us.
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We've seen countless ultra-violent revenge quests in games, films, and TV before, many of them far more gratuitous (hello Quentin Tarantino).
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Obviously, a stupid and gratuitous diplomatic spat with the British is not going to lead to an exchange of nuclear saber rattling.
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He also doesn't shy away from some very intense love scenes between Sook-Hee and Lady Hideko that are only slightly gratuitous.
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"YouTube's Community Guidelines prohibit among other things, gratuitous violence, nudity, dangerous and illegal activities, and hate speech," a YouTube spokesperson told The Verge.
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On the run from masked gunmen, the target—Justin Bieber—gets cornered and eventually shot down in a gratuitous bit of self-martyrdom.
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Tibbetts is not deserving of clemency in part because Hicks&apos killing was "particularly senseless and gratuitous," the board said at that time.
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It's really hard to imagine there won't be malevolent anti-immigrant bad faith and gratuitous cruelty as part of this forthcoming executive order.
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Blockbuster action games have long portrayed violence in a gratuitous and emotionless fashion; killing becomes a mechanic, and death, a signal of success.
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It's Arrow's seventh season, and by now the show knows what works: superhero landings, martial arts, and gratuitous shots of Stephen Amell's abs.
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At this point, we've lost so many characters — from minor players to major game-changers — the violence might seem utterly gratuitous and unnecessary.
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Less than a week after the story came out, Melania "severed the gratuitous services contract with Ms. Wolkoff," a spokesperson told the Times.
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When I talk to friends (or anyone who'll listen) about anime, they often imagine explosions, hard to understand inside jokes, and gratuitous violence.
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The frequent rape and victimization of its female characters, not to mention all that gratuitous nudity, was all anyone wanted to talk about.
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The Gratuitous Shots of Women's Bare Feet And here it is—the worst cameo in all of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
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Our favorite gratuitous festival style trend returned to the polo field this year, along with the requisite flower crowns, crochet, and animal onesies.
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I don't think using augmented reality takes away from the enjoyment of art if the app development is done correctly and isn't gratuitous.
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But we're also getting a second gratuitous season of Fuller House and are on our 17th Spider-Man movie in as many years.
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Humans are sometimes attacked by rabid otters, and the horrifying acts of depravity otters commit against baby seals include gratuitous killing and necrophilia.
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There's also a gratuitous musical number that gives Russell a chance to sing, with Bruce Springsteen's guitarist Steven Van Zandt among the cameos.
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The screenwriters of "Game of Thrones" have tested their viewers' boundaries and patience on numerous occasions with gratuitous depictions of violence against women.
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What's most impressive about the series is how the interactivity is fully baked into the story, rather than feeling like a gratuitous addition.
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It was a petty and gratuitous insult, compounded by the fact that State apparently didn't bother to inform the EU of its decision.
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Trump's decision to end #DACA would be cruel, gratuitous, and devastating to tens of thousands of NYers – I will sue to protect them.
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Comedy that lives on Netflix, he thinks, can't be dated, and, anyway, political talk is now gratuitous, a dead weight on comic communication.
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Shadowed by a parade of followers — young filmmakers, photographers, reporters, producers — Hannaford struggles to raise money for his flashy, gratuitous-sex-laden film.
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Love, Death, and Robots isn't perfect: A lot of the nudity feels gratuitous, and a lot of the show favors style over substance.
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I was trying to guide our driver onto the engineer's bridge while scanning the landscape for other threats; being shot at felt gratuitous.
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The gratuitous nature of his unpresidential behavior adds an element of farce to the tragic bargain many of Mr. Trump's apologists have struck.
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There is good reason to believe that, if nothing is done, gratuitous surveillance will be built into nearly every business and business model.
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To be truly effective, privacy laws must seek to change the incentives that foster gratuitous surveillance and the reckless accumulation of personalized data.
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That is why burnishing the aura of power with gratuitous displays like a military parade with no obvious occasion are constitutionally ill advised.
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The 21-page document had credibility, however, because it contained details that only insiders could have known, some of which were utterly gratuitous.
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He made virality central to his art, and was the first pop star to truly weaponize its power in a non-gratuitous manner.
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Ever the insomniac, he puts Larry David to shame, never able to curb his own enthusiasm for some offensive remark or gratuitous slur.
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"This is just another gratuitous attack from the self-designated chiefs of the purity police on an issue of great consequence," he said.
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It's not quite as polished as Q.T.'s World War II masterpiece, but they both turn gratuitous Jewish vengeance into a gleeful bloodsport.
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" Representative Eliot L. Engel of New York, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called Mr. Kerry's speech "gratuitous" and "wrong.
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He documents a string of gratuitous massacres of Native Americans, much to be deeply regretted, but insists that official Washington never contemplated genocide.
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The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple wants high-quality shows with broad appeal that do not include gratuitous sex, violence or profanity.
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" The beehive is obliterated, but the strange thing is, out of all that gratuitous destruction, "not all the Kamikaze bees dead in there.
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The art and writing are crude and shoddy, the violence is beyond gratuitous, and the depiction of Muslims is callous in the extreme.
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McConnell said he agrees with Trump that the border should be better secured but criticized him for his "gratuitous" attack on New Mexico Gov.
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In addition to its plot-generated shocks, the movie packs in so many gratuitous "Boo!" moments that you can set your watch by them.
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The humor landed in a way that it hadn't before and the violence, more gratuitous than ever, became an integral part of the joke.
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If this seems like some of the most gratuitous displays of wealth (and tradition) we have in this modern era — well, that's tradition, too.
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His position, first reported by The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was criticized here as being gratuitous and exaggerated, but nevertheless, it was considered devastating.
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Evan Rachel Wood and Thandie Newton defended the choices the show made, saying they were not gratuitous and appropriate for the story being told.
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A lot what Tumblr is banning is just gratuitous porn GIFs, and the internet is not lacking options when it comes to free pornography.
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Click here to view original GIFThere is no better way to celebrate the passing of time than with a gratuitous display of synchronized dancing.
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Weinstein does not recall pressuring Salma to do a gratuitous sex scene with a female costar and he was not there for the filming.
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Previously, violence in the Westworld park was gratuitous by design: there were no consequences to harming hosts, and humans couldn't be hurt at all.
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Why not throw Huey Lewis in there, and hoverboards, and a gratuitous musical number, and a weird relationship between our hero and his mom?
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That's probably because we're going to turn everything we can get our hands on into a smart device, even if it seems super gratuitous.
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Google's YouTube subsidiary has clear policies that prohibit content like gratuitous violence, hate speech and incitement to commit violent acts, a company spokesman said.
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Netflix has a new documentary series about food, but this one is about so much more than just gratuitous shots of beautifully prepared meals.
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Additionally, Thrones' treatment of women has been criticized since the beginning for gratuitous nudity, "sexposition," and the use of rape as a plot device.
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We're told authorities are adamant the video will never be released to the public ... it would be gratuitous, gruesome and painful for his family.
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If in the very first pages I'm forced to read gratuitous phrases or banal metaphors, I won't be able to get inside the story.
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But the Trump lawyers thought naming the President was gratuitous because others weren't identified in the documents, and they complained to the Mueller team.
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It was a gratuitous and egregious thing to do, and therefore absolutely in character for a nation whose politics are tumbling out of control.
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Maybe it's a sense that a lot of gratuitous suffering is or should be part of the human condition, or God's plan, or something.
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Mr. Vance replied on Friday, dismissing what he called Mr. Blanche's "gratuitous claims" that the prosecution was politically motivated and violated double jeopardy protections.
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These narrative devices, designed to intrigue, risk annoying instead: The book conceals vital information for no clear reason other than to create gratuitous suspense.
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Frank Bruni One hundred days, too many of them filled with needless drama and gratuitous insult, and still I remember the first full one.
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The more gratuitous the violence — gang rape, ceremonial sacrifice, mutilating and murdering neighbors or family members — the harder it becomes to contemplate returning home.
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They said Wolkoff denied them the opportunity to remove and preserve their work, calling his actions "gratuitous, willful, and malicious," according to court documents.
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But there's a fine line between thoughtful provocation and gratuitous shock tactics, and school shooting-themed hoodies fall on the wrong side of it.
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Gorsuch signaled his loyalty to this anti-regulatory agenda by writing gratuitous opinions laying out new limits he hoped to impose on federal agencies.
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But the torrent of internal, confidential, and classified content coming out of this White House — or wherever — is gratuitous and bad for the country.
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To the Editor: Re "Understanding Republican Cruelty" (column, June 30): Paul Krugman rightly laments the gratuitous cruelty of Republicans in their proposed health bill.
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To understand how deep and gratuitous the Republican tax con is, you have to watch what Republicans do, not listen to what they say.
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That's not usually a sentiment I'd ascribe to Game of Thrones, which has been known for its gratuitous use of graphic and often violent sex.
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How did you make sure it had that kind of impact with the audience, especially in a genre that is so built on gratuitous violence?
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" They then pointed out that Trump breaking his promise to release his tax returns "is even more gratuitous than Clinton concealing her Goldman Sachs transcripts.
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Don't be fooled by the twee names and gratuitous puns, Werdelin says: Pets are big business, and the industry is growing at a rapid clip.
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In 1942 Joseph Goebbels scrambled to present the Baedeker raids, in which Nazi planes attacked historic British towns, as legitimate retaliation rather than gratuitous vandalism.
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The similarities are eerie, but I'm not quite sure it lands as well as its inspirations do — the gratuitous nudity isn't a great sign either.
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The system also offers a kind of interactivity that doesn't rely on branching paths, something that often results in more gratuitous padding than compelling fiction.
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But part of vacations' allure is that they're opportunities for indulgence — whether that comes in the form of cliché frozen drinks or gratuitous beach selfies.
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In the past 215 years, a new image joined the bumper sticker pantheon, right next to gratuitous honor student boasts and outdated political endorsements: Coexist.
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For all the controversial instances of gratuitous and unnecessary sexual violence, the show also offers depictions of sexuality rarely seen on a primetime TV show.
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In the case of Tess McGill's topless housework and these other examples, the nudity and sex scenes feel gratuitous, exploitative, and just straight-up superfluous.
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Star Trek has never been about gratuitous violence and action, but introspection, exploration, and deep philosophical questioning among a diverse group of humans (and humanoids).
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Though certainly an improvement from Restoration drama, many television programmes offer only gratuitous depictions of the violence itself, with little interest in the ensuing distress.
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One episode features what may be HBO's only non-gratuitous orgy, on a ferry of kinky cultists who worship a hyper-fertile lion named Frasier.
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The videos are earnest and adorably cheese-ball, bearing the production tropes of '80s VHS: There are spinning wipe effects, gratuitous zooms, saccharine background music.
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The original "Mortal Kombat" games were originally arcade hits, boosted by the game's penchant for gratuitous violence and the early use of motion-capture technology.
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Immediately and intelligently, the new president challenged an entire generation of young Americans to think beyond stifling policies of narrow self-interest or gratuitous antagonisms.
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If you want nostalgia—the crotch chops, the "suck it," the gratuitous imitations of wrestlers living and dead—well, the Young Bucks can do that.
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"YouTube's Community Guidelines prohibit among other things, gratuitous violence, nudity, dangerous and illegal activities, and hate speech," a YouTube spokesperson told Motherboard in an email.
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After five seasons filled with violence, prostitution, rape, and gratuitous boob shots, season 6 finally finds women playing an active role in their own destinies.
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Mr. Weinstein does not recall pressuring Salma to do a gratuitous sex scene with a female costar and he was not there for the filming.
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His gratuitous insults, evident racism, hair-trigger temper and lack of preparation suggest he would be a reckless, even perilous, choice for the Oval Office.
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What else is the "all lives matter" rallying cry but an attempt to neutralize Black Lives Matter and portray it as both exclusionary and gratuitous?
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There is much gratuitous use of video in German theater productions at the moment, but when used wisely, it can greatly enrich the dramatic experience.
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Add to that the gratuitous murder by the American government of close to a quarter million Japanese civilians in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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So he started with threats of "fire and fury," then turned to surprise initiatives, then gratuitous flattery of one of the world's more brutal dictators.
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"Just throw some gratuitous criticisms into a couple of opinions and a few years later point to them as 'special justifications' " for overruling a precedent.
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Can we continue to wake each day to the tweets and tantrums, the nasty, often gratuitous fights and the ensuing turmoil that surrounds this president?
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Catholic and Protestant authorities agree on the mysterious nature of grace, which they see as a free and undeserved or gratuitous favor, not a reward.
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When he drops in the occasional heavenly choir — a gratuitous gesture given James Newton Howard's marvelous orchestral score — the effect is less numinous than overworked.
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Just avoid re-litigating the matter or adding any gratuitous caveats to the effect that you never agreed with the criticism in the first place.
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But my impulse here is part of the problem: It's not just socialists who have a tendency to take gratuitous shots at their natural allies.
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For the most harmful content (gratuitous violence and pornography) it wants to strict control measures applied to online platforms, such as age verification or pin codes.
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In testimony before Congress, Judge Lefkow made a plea to lawmakers: "I ask you to publicly and persistently repudiate gratuitous attacks on the judiciary," she said.
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Showing the murders when you're going to allow your characters to escape their fates is gratuitous — a voyeuristic, borderline offensive way of tricking viewers into caring.
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That same sensitivity was applied to scenes depicting sexual assault: there's no gratuitous nudity, and psychological advisors were available on set to help offset any discomfort.
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And now it seems Facebook hopes that Instagram can deliver an even better service for those moments you want to send some gratuitous snaps in private.
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While it's an illuminating look through recent political media history in hindsight, it also feels like gratuitous attention for a man who positively thrived on it.
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Trucks just has a lot of glaring Canadian accents — despite the fact that it takes place in a small US town — and bursts of gratuitous violence.
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But even with the video footage, the photographs, the DNA and the gratuitous police narrative, we still have a jigsaw puzzle that is missing two pieces.
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The publisher guidelines also highlight some of the company's policies around what types of content it allows, noting that "gratuitous" violence or hate speech are forbidden.
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Its lurid use of sex and violence are not simply gratuitous, however; they're a tool used to demonstrate the overindulgent, sometimes disgusting nature of being human.
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Of course we should still celebrate culture that is gratuitous, and I personally can watch a horrifyingly violent film and then get on with my day.
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The key difference between our lot and Truman's is that he was an unwitting victim, while many of us are happily complicit in the gratuitous oversharing.
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We'd laugh about the purists who didn't approve of how, when the powers that be adapt something from a book, they add all the gratuitous sex.
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"Trump's breach of promise over the release of his tax returns is even more gratuitous than [Hillary] Clinton concealing her Goldman Sachs transcripts," the organization tweeted.
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Nor have Putin and his surrogates been especially subtle in their extortionate attempts to use this gratuitous proscription as leverage for dismantling of the Magnitsky Act.
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One of them asked if the sex in the video would be protected speech under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution if it was gratuitous.
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It's Sansa who's been able to absorb the many seasons of gratuitous violence and emotional torture to which she's been subjected without turning to violence herself.
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He hit a wildly unnecessary tweener shot at the net, followed up by wholly gratuitous...jumpy-hitty thing after Satral lobbed his return to the baseline.
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Yes, the requisite need to have a lot of nudity and the struggle to avoid making it gratuitous and instead an integral part of the story.
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United Airlines, a company that is most known for beating up a paying customer and dragging him off a plane, is doubling down on gratuitous violence.
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Between songs, he repeats the gratuitous sentiment: "Thank you all for coming out tonight…," a tell that he's nervous, but the crowd doesn't seem to notice.
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The bar of the future will still have the element of luxury that we want to enjoy, it just won't have gratuitous opulence that's highly wasteful.
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They set their own rules and retain the right to moderate content, routinely screening it for instances of gratuitous violence, harassment, profanity and other offensive material.
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That's not quite the case here; the violence in Detroit is gratuitous simply because there is so much of it and it is so profoundly repugnant.
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If, however, they understood cruel and unusual to mean "causing gratuitous physical or psychological suffering," then they could, if not should, arrive at the opposite decision.
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There might be a case for avoiding contaminating the American flag with the emblem of an odious regime if it is done for purely gratuitous reasons.
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If you guessed "double-wristing," the totally gratuitous but weirdly enduring practice of wearing two wristwatches at once, you're possibly guilty of the extraneous practice yourself.
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The U.S. would be well advised to make a quick trade deal with China and to tone down its gratuitous and counter-productive anti-Chinese rhetoric.
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The folders of photo editors bulge with powerful images that did not make the cut because they were considered too horrific, too invasive or too gratuitous.
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But two things leap out right away: the gratuitous humblebrag about the speaker's fancy expertises (sashimi!), and the labored, self-conscious explanation of her narrative context.
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I wanted to suggest violence in the past instead of showing it all the time, while in the '70s setting it's much more gratuitous and stylistic.
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And so the whole thing seems gratuitous, self-serving and, most importantly, quite removed from the very fraught relationship most of us have with our phones.
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Malaysia is "concerned by the unnecessary and gratuitous naming of certain matters and individuals that are only relevant to domestic political manipulation and interference," he said.
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It took the then-rookie actress some time, but eventually, her character's "fuck ton of nudity" was less gratuitous and more clearly linked to her storyline.
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Now, more than 50 years after the sexual revolution, women seem to feel that turning a rigorous strength-training workout into something overtly sexual is gratuitous.
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The gratuitous use of cowbell is just one extra sweet cherry on top—and if you have a chance to see them play live, do it.
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And even Samantha's relationship with a woman (which was handled mostly well) feels gross and gratuitous next to the queer ladies who grace our TV screens today.
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Male candidates have received an outsized amount of fawning attention (think Beto O'Rourke's gratuitous Vanity Fair cover, which he himself has said he regrets) and donor money.
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You has a lot to say about the insidious ways men exert control over women, but it may have been considered gratuitous to show the actual moment.
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"This drastic enforcement action followed months of notifications from YouTube, in which O'Brien was told that three of her videos had been flagged for containing "gratuitous violence.
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The development team uses the internal tagline "Jaws not Saw," with a stated goal of having violence that's intense and mature, instead of overly gratuitous and gory.
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For all of Game of Thrones' problems during those seasons of endless gratuitous rape scenes, the show apparently got one thing very right with regard to women.
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Sure, the animated short Blade Runner: Blackout, which helped set up last year's Blade Runner 2049, was pretty good, but a full-fledged series just seems gratuitous.
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At the same time there are signs that the studios are becoming squeamish about gratuitous sex and misogynistic violence, two staples of the silver screen (see article).
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I think (and I might be alone on this) that Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam books are gratuitous feminist torture porn, so maybe it just looked good in comparison.
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The camera never obsesses over specifics, avoiding needless or gratuitous close-ups, but it also never shies away from what's taking place: hot and steamy gay sex.
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But AHS has always had a problem with hokey characters and mismatched ideas, B-plots that get abandoned, gratuitous, stylized sexual violence, and odd notions about race.
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It earns an R for gratuitous violence, but those scenes are so few and far between that the rest of this film could pass as G rated.
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When I'm watching stuff on my MacBook alone in my apartment, I don't enjoy being on edge as I watch a movie with lots of gratuitous tension.
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Its philosophies may be basic, its violence and action gratuitous, but undeniably, for anyone working or with an interest in video games, the BioShock series is pivotal.
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Yes, the gang on the "Today" show again pops up, along with a gratuitous Xfinity banner, but so do morning-show hosts in the UK and Australia.
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Adding booze to coffee or tea is a recipe for myriad wintery drinks, but they usually also include gratuitous amounts of orange slices, cloves, and cinnamon sticks.
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He strikes me as more of a gratuitous vaper of mango-flavored juice than someone who would have the faintest idea what to do with a dab.
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Both Republicans — Bush, Paulson and Bolton — and Democrats — Obama, Geithner and Emanuel — are treated fairly and, importantly, viewers hear their firsthand recollections unfiltered and without gratuitous commentary.
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Remember, the party's congressional wing deliberately set about extracting concessions from President Obama, using the threat of gratuitous default via a refusal to raise the debt ceiling.
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The note feels gratuitous, partly because Brown's relationship to the swells is plainly vexed, and partly because the odd thing isn't her diary's glamour but its aperture.
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The game used motion-capture actors to animate all sorts of gratuitous violence, earning an infamous reputation, thanks in part to its deadly finishing moves called fatalities.
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So it won't be long before athletes on other parts of the LGBTQ spectrum come to the Olympics to compete and cause similar waves of gratuitous handwringing.
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This is usually the time of year when Game of Thrones kicks off to distract us from real life with dragons, wargs and gratuitous sex and blood.
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We didn't want it to be gratuitous, we didn't film it in any kind of titillating way, we wanted it to just be the terror of it.
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However, there is little gore and a complete lack of sex and gratuitous nudity—the characters even get in the water fully clothed, which, frankly, seems impractical.
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Rick Nolan (D-Minn.), who represents a district won by Trump last year, said he tries to avoid gratuitous partisan insults in his media statements and speeches.
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Perhaps the subtext here is the reconciliation of tensions among the races, but a gratuitous sensationalism prevails, something akin to the grotesque photographs of Joel-Peter Witkin.
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Even the abbreviated summary of an upcoming "Family Guy" two-part episode — which will depict Donald Trump manhandling the show's resident teenage girl, Meg — already feels gratuitous.
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These should be solemn occasions, but Trump has managed to vulgarize the moment yet again with his gratuitous attacks on the mayor of London and Meghan Markle.
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A few were just gratuitous head-scratchers, like THE Y (which I tip my hat to) and maybe SHORT E. Not to mention BIG D, cutely clued.
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A few were just gratuitous head-scratchers, like THE Y (which I tip my hat to) and maybe SHORT E. Not to mention BIG D, cutely clued.
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What would have been the reaction if a federal judge declared DACA to be gratuitous or cruel to those who are awaiting entry into the country legally?
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It might include a medical examiner's gratuitous request that you disrobe, not only because you're the suspected cause of the boyfriend's death but, you know, just because.
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Numerous reports from health advocates like the Environmental Working Group have pointed out the gratuitous amount of sugar in the usual suspects like Lucky Charms and Honey Smacks.
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But sandwiched between a 2018 podcast about Bundy and Berlinger's upcoming biopic, it mostly just seems gratuitous — the kind of self-aggrandizing focus that Bundy would have loved.
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Categorically, they do not fit neatly anywhere, a strategy at once gratuitous and opaque, that is, they do not reflect back upon the artist in any particular way.
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A surprising amount of contestants are ready to start a familyTo balance out the gratuitous makeout shots, producers made sure to slap some wholesome family values in there.
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Infinity Ward seemingly wants to tell a story about how soldiers are shaped by circumstance, but the campaign's propulsive energy depends too much on gratuitous shock-and-awe.
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That means a bloodbath of gratuitous violence, irreverent sass, fourth-wall-smashing meta moments and the occasional feeling that one of this guy's superpowers is being excruciatingly annoying.
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" The spokesperson also claimed Weinstein does not recall pressuring Hayek to do "a gratuitous sex scene with a female costar and he was not there for the filming.
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" In response to Hayek's op-ed, a spokesperson for Weinstein said that he "does not recall pressuring Salma to do a gratuitous sex scene with a female costar.
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Shows about gangs and guns too often rest on gratuitous fight scenes to forward the narrative, while "The Chi" lingers at funerals and kerbside vigils to fallen teenagers.
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Music pulses throughout the project, giving "The Get Down" a beating heart even when it detours into the mythic, strange and surreal, including a few mildly gratuitous shootouts.
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But it was backstage, with one of the actors worriedly checking out his warts — right after a gratuitous onstage boob shot when stage Tyrion ripped stage Sansa's bodice.
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"We worked hard to make sure the flesh quota was high; there's more gratuitous boobs, bums, abs, whatever per minute than you can imagine," he told The Sun.
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BRANTLEY It's a musical that sounds more like what audiences are hearing on the radio than we've had in a long time — and not in any gratuitous way.
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Any first use against lesser threats, such as countries or terrorist groups with chemical and biological weapons, would be gratuitous; there are alternative means of countering those threats.
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The question came from a young man in the audience who asked the senator bluntly, "How can you sacrifice basic Christian principles" with such personal and gratuitous attacks?
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YouTube deleted over 22019 million channels between July and September for violating its community guidelines, which bar content including pornography, gratuitous violence, hate speech, cyberbullying, spam, and more.
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Apparently millions of people don't realize you can just watch the sex scenes—which include incest, rape, lesbians, orgies, and simple prolonged gratuitous nudity—on the show itself.
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When Mr. Rau finally recreated the crime itself, for all its savagery, it didn't feel gratuitous: By this point, the audience had enough critical context to process it.
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" But that one moment is a long way from some of Menkes' favorite examples of gratuitous voyeurism, like the naked locker-room romp at the start of "Carrie.
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It's audacious, and also a little gratuitous: It gives you a way to remember where you'd been, even if you aren't quite sure how you ended up there.
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Setting aside that gratuitous shot of those women in "Endgame," nobody financially seems to have a problem with women doing two hours of superhero work in a movie.
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For viewers of a certain age, it's best remembered as a gratuitous (or sexually confusing) excuse to watch Pamela Anderson and David Chokachi flail around in slow-motion.
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"I think critics and audiences were exactly aligned — this is not a gratuitous sequel," Chris Aronson, 20th Century Fox's president of domestic distribution, said by phone on Sunday.
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When we as a nation are willing to pay extra so that we can lock people up and rip apart their families, that's gratuitous cruelty posturing as policy.
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Mr. Cohen has been treated poorly by Mr. Trump over the course of their relationship, with gratuitous insults, dismissive statements and, at least twice, threats of being fired.
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After recommendations from coworkers and the gratuitous research that follows from working as a professional product reviewer, I landed on Dagne Dover&aposs Landon Carryall in medium, ($155).
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In a gratuitous muscle play, Mueller may have added a potential complication to the use of evidence that could contaminate much of his investigation in any later trial.
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But he's also got the skills to toss in some killer action sequences and dazzling scenery porn, and maybe we'd even get a little gratuitous Michael B. Jordan.
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There's a lot of sex talk, obviously, but not in a gratuitous or unrealistic way, more a round of "never have I ever" over a row of shots.
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Sonically, Tinguely's fidgety machines of mechanical disorder produce gratuitous Musique concrete-like noise fields that are sometimes scarcely audible, such as "Trompette" (1962), which rubs and never blows.
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However, especially if it is about the future, and not a gratuitous criticism of Scalia personally, there is nothing wrong with people discussing the political implications of this.
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Like the cover of a cheesy romance novel, Colton's shirt is open, exposing his chest, which we all know is not an accident, considering his many gratuitous shower scenes.
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Sure, some people might find them gratuitous and silly, but if you're super fancy and want all your friends to know it, this is the perfect gift to give.
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"In a craven and gratuitous abuse of presidential power, Donald Trump issued a Friday-night pardon to an adjudicated discriminator and disgraced former sheriff," Saenz said in a statement.
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It's a conceit very similar to indie title Gratuitous Space Battles, but TABS' wacky, flailing polygon people add a level of surrealism to the experience that made me smile.
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SpacePorn, SciencePorn, HistoryPorn.... If you see "porn" at the end of a Twitter name and the account isn't filled with photos of gratuitous sex acts, run the other way.
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"I have never in my life been spoken to with such insolence, treated with such disdain, with so many insults and with so much gratuitous impoliteness," Fox told ABC.
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To keep the Panda Day fun going, check out 16 gratuitous photos of baby pandas, and find out which pandas you can meet in real life in North America!
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Bloomberg kicked off his own presidential campaign last November with an equally gratuitous mea culpa, repudiating his support as mayor for the police tactic of stop, question and frisk.
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Even among Game of Thrones sex scenes, this one stands out as the ultimate example of "sexposition," where exposition is made more interesting to audiences with some gratuitous fingerbanging.
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As our allies and partners such as Japan, Australia, the Philippines and Taiwan observe Trump's gratuitous concessions in Singapore, they will question the United States' commitment to them, too.
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Master of explosions and gratuitous hero shots Michael Bay has a new movie coming to Netflix next month, and it looks, uh, like the most Michael Bay thing imaginable.
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The gratuitous shots at Jeb Bush (from the stage and beyond), the insistence from Mr. Trump that he was the victim of a wide-scale, poll-number rounding conspiracy.
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In erotic frankness without judgment or gratuitous titillation, "Much Loved," the French-Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch's group portrait of prostitutes in Marrakesh, pushes boundaries without asking us for sympathy.
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" In his statement, Weinstein said he "did not recall pressuring Salma to do a gratuitous sex scene with a female costar and he was not there for the filming.
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I'm reluctant to admit it and astonished to say it, especially since the president mocked Christine Blasey Ford in his ugly and gratuitous way at a rally on Tuesday.
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The producers flattened out some nuances, relied on cultural exoticism and loaded episodes with gratuitous sex and rape scenes — some of which they seemed unaware even were rape scenes.
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The score by Mr. Apple, who also wrote the book, is so unchallenging that almost all the actors take it upon themselves to embellish it with gratuitous vocal stylings.
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Critics have been grappling with the genre's powerful resurgence, its gratuitous violence, and, worst of all, its perennial relevance ever since Margaret Atwood unleashed The Handmaid's Tale in 1985.
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If gratuitous male nudity (courtesy of the actor and sometime playwright J. Stephen Brantley) makes for a change, Mr. Tolan and Mr. Hardy wisely avoid staging any actual sex.
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No, this one's on Trump, who practices such gratuitous cruelty — he once mocked McCain's agonizing years as a prisoner of war — and leaves nothing but scorched earth behind him.
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Since the authors' chronicle rarely goes beyond the journalistic accounts written at the time, and since nothing ultimately came of these talks, sections of the book can feel gratuitous.
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The latest effort is outlined in a recent column by Keith Noreika, the acting comptroller, which is his second gratuitous attempt to undermine the evidence that supports our rule.
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Goldburn P. Maynard Jr. teaches courses on taxation, gratuitous transfers and elder law as an assistant law professor at the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville.
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They have been consistently criticized for Game of Thrones' gratuitous depiction of rape and the lack of the significant characters of color and the lack of diversity behind the camera.
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Whether it's an overblown statement about a cereal brand or the gratuitous use of a certain tablet, product placement is a necessity to keep your favorite shows on the air.
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The president's prerogative to disclose or declassify secret information aside, the arbitrary, gratuitous, and conspicuous exercise of that power minimizes security concerns, lending the impression that classification doesn't really matter.
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So yeah, there's like eight more weeks of coping with gratuitous tinsel tacked onto everything, which can be difficult if you live in a state where weed still isn't legal.
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There's certainly more gore than in the original, but it largely feels gratuitous — these are kids getting brutalized, after all, and upping the violence makes it that much more unpleasant.
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The chefs are as taken with fermentation and native ingredients as any other modern Australian cooks, but here there is intent that veers toward pleasure and away from gratuitous posturing.
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Ahead, you'll find Macy Gray promoting her album in the best way, Lindsay Lohan pre-Speak era, and a gratuitous Tila Tequila moment (because the '00s were a weird decade).
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Cage says he has long strived to avoid gratuitous violence, but that the tragedy made him more aware — and in some ways, fearful — of what his own work might say.
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HBO reportedly faced angry viewers cancelling subscriptions, as women fans in particular objected to the constant gratuitous nudity, as well as the sheer scale of the violence depicted on screen.
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Apostle occasionally seems entirely over the top — the last-act conflict degenerates into a particularly gory mess that seems gratuitous after the sadder, stranger, more human battles that precede it.
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But at the time, it seemed completely fine, because you see all these games that have gratuitous sexual elements that are really nothing to do with the plot or anything.
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Game of Thrones is as much a show about politics as it is about war, intrigue, and the occasionally gratuitous violence and nudity that the show is occasionally known for.
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If I were asked to offer one answer to the question posed by the movie's title, I'd advise Mr. Hart to steer clear of such gratuitous indulgences in the future.
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Instead, their current arc is a disservice to both characters' development over the past six seasons, and it feels like little more than an attempt to stir up gratuitous drama.
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He's just a sentient action figure who loves pummeling unsuspecting bad guys with a barrage of bullets, and each subsequent movie is shittier and more gratuitous than the one before.
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It seems gratuitous at first — in fact, it is — but Owuor's descriptions of religious extremism sketch a virulent strain of Islam against which she can contrast Ayaana's benevolent spiritual journey.
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" Magnet ends his book with a gratuitous, even racist assault on Barack Obama, in which the former president's mother is trashed as a "Kumbaya mother" and a "flibbertigibbet white mother.
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Indeed, the Trump administration is going a step further by wrenching children from the arms of asylum-seekers, apparently as a way of inflicting gratuitous cruelty to discourage new arrivals.
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" The judge ruled that for many women, the administration's contraception rule would "transform contraceptive coverage from a legal entitlement to an essentially gratuitous benefit wholly subject to their employer's discretion.
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By the same token, Mr Schiff's effort to reinvigorate the House investigation, despite Mr Mueller's ongoing investigation, could look gratuitous to a public that has little interest in the Russian plot.
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By way of a gratuitous comparison, he then slammed Puerto Rico, which has suffered even worse storm damage, unleashing a vast exodus of islanders to Florida, for being greedy and corrupt.
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Sansa Stark's rape by the ever-evil Ramsay Bolton was painful to watch and particularly controversial, with many viewers and critics calling out the show for including a gratuitous, demeaning scene.
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Baz Luhrmann has been trying to recreate the success of Romeo + Juliet for the past two decades, and each subsequent attempt is more gratuitous and brain-bleedingly extravagant than the last.
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We know Westworld is full of gratuitous violence, but this is just brutal... Westworld co-creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy recently hosted a Reddit AMA about the upcoming second series.
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The book's sex scenes were totally gratuitous, and I never understood why an eager employee knowing she's constantly being watched would start hooking up with a co-worker all over campus.
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Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, he writes, presided over "gratuitous years of carnage, merely to conceal from the American electorate, for their own partisan purposes, the inevitability" of defeat in Indochina.
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These offensive posts that violate Facebook's or Twitter's terms of service can include content that is hate speech, threatening or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.
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Starting with his gratuitous and disturbing slap at Ghazala Khan, the Gold Star mother who appeared at the Democratic National Convention, Trump has been careening from one unsettling comment to another.
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The second is that it includes a gratuitous list of progressive measures—including a federal jobs guarantee, a universal basic income, and universal health insurance—only tangentially related to climate policy.
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The premise alone should be incentive enough, but let's add weird accents (not one person is authentically or even convincingly French), gratuitous sniffing, Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman in weird wigs.
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It was created by Rhoda Koenig, a literary critic, and Auberon Waugh, at that time editor of Literary Review, who felt that sex scenes were becoming increasingly gratuitous in literary fiction.
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This is not to trivialize or make secondary his suffering: It was gratuitous and racist with a crude obviousness that is rarely legible in the racist scandals of our own moment.
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And even though I loved Jenny Slate's cameo, the dance scene felt a little gratuitous (but maybe I'm just holding it up to the instant classic Robyn scene from Season 1).
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He sprinkled apologies among gratuitous attacks on Trump and juicy stories of Trump mocking Vietnam veterans, getting Cohen to lie to the first lady, or rigging bids on his own portrait.
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What I take away is that the promotion of revolution and the departure from figuration in art amount to alternative strategies of visual seduction, booby-trapping intellectual programs with gratuitous pleasures.
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This crucial point should resonate loudly and instructively with all who would still heap gratuitous praise upon a White House that bombastically equates personal success with the elicited envy of others.
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Here, one can shut the brain off and welcome in the gratuitous violence, shock, death, and sex that lives here—where they mean what they say, and do what they mean.
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And for too long: The show, directed by Sash Bischoff, clocks in at more than three hours, with nearly a third of that time given over to maximally gratuitous dance sequences.
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In 2012, Saturday Night Live even did a sketch in which Andy Samberg played the 13-year-old boy in charge of making sure the show always had more gratuitous nudity.
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The Exile, I regret not because, not necessarily because it was offensive to any particular group, but just because it was mean in a way that was really gratuitous and unnecessary.
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Trump's spokeswoman, said the office had "severed the gratuitous services contract with Ms. Wolkoff," who Ms. Grisham said had been employed as "a special government employee" to work on specific projects.
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Regular order stopped and the year ended with yet another gratuitous omnibus spending bill that locked in waste and added about $2 trillion in new debt over the next two decades.
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The imprecision of the dubbing also complemented the unsavory tone of the films themselves, which tend to involve cynical characters who engage in dirty dealings and inflict gratuitous violence without remorse.
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Republicans seized on a small subset of evidence in the report to accuse Democrats of what Mr. Collins called "a gratuitous drive-by" targeting a conservative journalist and a Republican lawmaker.
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The first lady's spokeswoman told The Times that the office had "severed the gratuitous services contract with Ms. Wolkoff," who had been working as "a special government employee" on certain projects.
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Winston Wolkoff told the Times that the White House informed her "that all gratuitous volunteer contracts were ended" and said she still expected to have a strong relationship with Melania Trump.
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They said such "indiscriminate" and "gratuitous" use of force illegally targeted people protesting lawfully as well as unlawfully, and gave police officers "unbridled" and unconstitutional authority to suppress their free speech.
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The same year, he appeared onstage at the Royal Shakespeare Company in "Infanticide in the House of Fred Ginger," a controversial work that ended with the gratuitous killing of a child.
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The single donkey and the single horse crossing the stage always seem gratuitous, and you have to wonder how long such conspicuous consumption can survive amid the company's current budgetary constraints.
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It's not just that Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his sadism have dominated a plot line that has often felt listless and stalled out except for occasional gratuitous acts of violence.
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Which is to say, if you're going to define gratuitous sexuality as sexuality that can be cut out and not diminish the final episode in any way, we weren't gonna do that.
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Perhaps this all means we've learned to object to gratuitous female nudity in media because it reinforces the trope that women's bodies are disposable, rather than for reasons of morality, or shame.
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Rather, we get lots of gratuitous looks at Apa's abs in an impossibly steamy shower followed by a shot of Veronica realizing she can only help her boyfriend with some sexual healing.
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By refusing to let us inside the mind of the person enacting the violence, Game of Thrones sacrificed the personal stakes that previously made its gratuitous violence consequential and its villains meaningful.
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The scene has predictably renewed conversation about how popular entertainment (including HBO series like Game of Thrones and now Westworld) use sexual assaults as gratuitous plot catalysts that effectively propagate rape culture.
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Just as soon as you thought "Game of Thrones" was getting soft by showing you 55 minutes of happy reunions and gratuitous nudity, they give you a shrieking, flaming undead-child pinwheel.
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The second is that it included a gratuitous list of progressive measures—including a federal jobs guarantee, universal basic income and universal health insurance—that are only tangentially related to climate policy.
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She acknowledged in her Instagram caption that another underwear shot of herself is "starting to feel gratuitous" but posed in her favorite nursing bra to raise money for the nonprofit Hourglass Underground.
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Sadly for libertarians, that political canniness also involves blatant reversals on criminal justice reform, gratuitous calls to "carpet bomb" ISIS, and public vows to fight the alleged "crisis" of same-sex marriage.
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While Resident Evil 7 taps into more conventional fears — killer insect swarms, lumbering monsters, gratuitous gore, and direct physical threats — much of the horror taps into our primal fears of the unknown.
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The gratuitous display doesn't damper the goodbyes the next morning, and everyone leaves feeling like they changed for the better after a few weeks in one of America's top spring break destinations.
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There are bike chase sequences and gratuitous slow-motion shots of Modi sweeping floors, outwitting terrorists, and delivering condescending monologues that compare running a government to making the perfect cup of tea.
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The Trance Vibrator is a pretty much unnecessary yet gloriously gratuitous testament to the sorts of things Japanese game developers could get away with in the heady days of the PlayStation 2.
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" From this, Rich arrives at the conclusion that it's necessary to identify "the villains—those who have tried to bewitch an unassuming public with uncertainty, lies, and the gratuitous fantasies of denialism.
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"[We are] concerned by the unnecessary and gratuitous naming of certain matters and individuals that are only relevant to domestic political manipulation and interference," Prime Minister Razak's press secretary told the Times.
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From the meme-referencing voice over opening, to the gratuitous slow-motion glory shots, to the actually enjoyable gags, to the ample Jeff Goldblum, this looks like a very different Thor movie.
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It's a wonderful little thing of beauty and pleasure, an act of thoroughly gratuitous showmanship, the kind of shit the NBA has been doing for decades better than any other sports league.
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But this peaceful period is short — shorter than the plaid schoolgirl skirt Megan Fox dons before partaking in a very Michael Bay-sian gratuitous slo-mo scene — because Shredder escapes police custody.
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Senate Republicans are frustrated by the lack of any evidence that Trump is making an effort to discipline himself and ease off his penchant for gratuitous insults since locking up the nomination.
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Then, as if to provide a gratuitous refresher course in the preciousness of life, Mr. Prine again learned he had cancer in 2013, this time with a spot on the left lung.
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TBH, the reference to Cardi seemed totally gratuitous -- under cross-examination, Aljermiah Mack's attorney asked Tekashi if he had copied the blueprint to Cardi's success by using gang members in his projects.
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They should reject the elimination of the individual insurance mandate and make up for lost revenue by reducing gratuitous giveaways to the wealthy through the elimination of estate or alternative minimum taxes.
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Though we're still waiting for a gratuitous ring selfie capturing every angle, the tennis champ did offer fans their first real look at the bling gifted to her by new fiancé Alexis Ohanian.
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For years Mr. Trump treated Mr. Cohen poorly, with gratuitous insults, dismissive statements and, at least twice, threats of being fired, according to interviews with a half-dozen people familiar with their relationship.
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After public anger at the display of the flag, the Nelson Mandela Foundation applied for an order declaring "gratuitous display" of the flag as hate speech, unfair discrimination and harassment based on race.
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Theoretically, this should narrow the range of false positives — videos that were incorrectly flagged for promoting drug use, using excessive profanity, highlighting gratuitous violence, or otherwise featuring content that advertisers might find objectionable.
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But the original version, released a few years back, featured a gratuitous use of exposed studs on the hood, fenders, and roof to recreate the car's curves, which many fans weren't thrilled with.
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As Foxy Brown also occupies the sexploitation genre, there's a lot of nudity that feels gratuitous (later in the film, Foxy is tied up by the bad guys with her breasts completely exposed).
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She exhibits an awareness of herself, a hint that she's in on the joke a bit — she seems just as over the gratuitous zipping and unzipping of her wetsuit as the audience is.
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"After review, we've determined that activity in your account violated our Community Guidelines, which state that the promotion or display of gratuitous violence is not acceptable on our site," the second email states.
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It was a "Thrones" throwback — the series has mostly abandoned the gateway gratuitous sex of early seasons — and perhaps one last kiss-off from a show that's been known to tweak its scolders.
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And federal prosecutors clearly hope that Mr. Cohen will cooperate — his testimony that Mr. Trump directed his crimes was gratuitous unless prosecutors intended to lock him into that story for possible future use.
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On Thursday, she fired back with her own accusations that the actor subjected her to "gratuitous unwanted physical contact" and saddled her with domestic tasks that male employees were not asked to do.
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But Peter Campbell, the managing director of Triple Star Management, a New Zealand construction firm, told me that, by and large, once his American clients arrive, they decide that underground shelters are gratuitous.
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High school administrators who want to support activist teenagers should provide media literacy skills that allow students to see how anti-social and gratuitous violence is marketed on screens and in video games.
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The Trump White House – but perhaps not Trump himself — is beginning to see that the same gratuitous provocations that landed him in the Oval Office may not keep him there for eight years.
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Such gratuitous score-settling carries a whiff of the Cosa Nostra, in which talking to the feds results in one's family being targeted — in part to send a message to other potential rats.
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"President Trump's decision to end the DACA program would be cruel, gratuitous, and devastating to tens of thousands of New Yorkers—and I will sue to protect them," Schneiderman said in a statement.
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But it added sometimes there were reasons to post violent content — such as with educational, newsworthy, artistic and satirical items — in which case context should be provided to show it was not gratuitous.
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Across the globe, Frei, a more gratuitous on-camera presence, is first seen in Boston attending a convention where scientists and students hope to make advances in the developing field of synthetic biology.
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Sure enough, in addition to the album title, the lead track announces he's on a "downward spiral," and throughout the album he continues making similarly gratuitous remarks about the excesses of his lifestyle.
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Their selfies have become a gratuitous, blatantly self-indulgent act meant to celebrate their own self-confidence, their own pride in their bare form, rather than something seeking the validation of a mass audience.
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We'd be remiss to go without mentioning the most gratuitous spectacle of the night: Ford's joint debut of his underwear line (available in June) and time pieces (available in March) for the show's finale.
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According to a 2015 article in Vanity Fair, Ringwald, co-star Ally Sheed, and producer Michelle Manning all banded together to scrub a gratuitous topless scene featuring a female teacher from The Breakfast Club.
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If World War II-set games have traditionally shied away from heavier topics, what makes it OK for Call of Duty — a series that is known for its gratuitous action — to now go there?
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Still, the cameo to end all cameos comes from Rihanna as a burlesque performer -- complete with stripper pole -- an appearance every bit as gratuitous as that sounds, bringing the movie to a grinding halt.
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Fans of Boardwalk Empire will know it's not the first time, but hey, with so much gratuitous female nudity on other HBO shows, it's nice to see a penis or two every so often.
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The camera's eventually knocked to the ground, of course, and we then get the rare Last Camera Standing With Gratuitous On-Screen Violence as a demonic force grotesquely bends the man in half. Backwards.
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Stick with me, I'm your queenLike a Tennessee Stella McCartneyIt doesn't get more British than Stella McCartney — if only Swift had a gratuitous clothing collaboration with the designer that she could subliminally promote here.
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State legislators fear the growing demand and support for higher wages among low-wage workers and so they have responded with a gratuitous display of the state's power and intention to keep pay depressed.
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Patrick Walker: I can't overemphasize how much I agree with you on the "cult of personality" and gratuitous nature of so many interviews; reading "artists" indulging in their own myth-building and so forth.
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Using the accelerometer to control the whirring orbit filter seems gratuitous and that's because it really is, but it's in more of a show off "yeah, this sounds awesome, doesn't it?" sort of way.
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" The Justice Department's intervention in Mr. Zarda's case led to sharp criticism from groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, which called the brief a "gratuitous and extraordinary attack on L.G.B.T. people's civil rights.
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In an era when many video games are criticized for gratuitous carnage, the Madden franchise, named for the celebrated football coach and commentator John Madden, has been among the sports games that stood apart.
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"Do not invent gratuitous 'Mc' or 'Mac' terms or phrases that add no long-term strategic value to the brand, such as 'McPhone,' 'McMeeting' or 'I work at McDonald's with McPride,'" the code states.
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The advice has resurfaced a day after a New Yorker reporter, Ryan Lizza, published a piece detailing the gratuitous, obscenity-laden phone call he got from the new White House communications director Wednesday night.
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Nobody expects a zombie series to be for the faint of heart, but under producer Scott M. Gimple, "The Walking Dead" has periodically tripped over the line that distinguishes edgy from cheap and gratuitous.
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The president characterized the ISIS chief's demise in cinematic and grisly terms during an address from the White House on Sunday announcing the overnight raid's success, employing vivid rhetoric that some critics deemed gratuitous.
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I found Chris Hayes's review of Michiko Kakutani's "The Death of Truth" to be primarily a vehicle for Hayes to deliver a personal, gratuitous and venomous attack on the president of the United States.
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Along with Liam Hemsworth, Usher represents the franchise's "new generation," a clutch completed by Nicolas Wright as that most gratuitous of reboot stock characters, the ironic nerd who has apparently seen the first movie.
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It's sort of comical that we didn't get to see Game of Thrones' brattiest character since King Joffrey get served, considering how much criticism the show receives for being sexist and gratuitous in its violence.
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Even if the footage is misleading as one of the producers suggested, the prevailing feeling is how pointless the scene is -- a gratuitous police sequence during one of Bailey's lesser lives as a canine cop.
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But in that scenario — if women were running things — these gratuitous displays of male genitalia would have been curbed decades ago, and those that persisted would be regarded as a nuisance, not a power play.
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" Dennis Hutchinson, a professor at the University of Chicago School of Law and an editor for the Supreme Court Review, told BuzzFeed News that Trump's pardon for Ali would be a "gratuitous and empty gesture.
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Mr. Van Amburg and Mr. Erlicht said they never intended Apple to be squeaky-clean, but admitted to telling agents and producers that violence, sex or language should not be "gratuitous," Mr. Van Amburg said.
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In return, Mr. Trump treated Mr. Cohen poorly for years, with gratuitous insults, dismissive statements and, at least twice, threats of being fired, according to interviews with a half-dozen people familiar with their relationship.
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Some argued that showing any rape at all was gratuitous and should be banned from the show, and I have to admit, I avoided watching for many months until just before the Season 6 premiere.
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Rattled by the gratuitous sadism he's just witnessed, Eugene tells the women of Negan's harem he's seen through their ruse to try to kill Negan and refuses to let them have the pill he made.
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There's some fabulously cliché dialogue (try to get through the scene of Angel and his father without predicting every millisecond) and gratuitous murder of characters we love, but it all worked out eight years later.
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From vitriolic attacks against undocumented immigrants to gratuitous and illegal suggestions that law enforcement rough up American citizens, the President has willfully abdicated the role other presidents have played as moral leaders of the nation.
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These gratuitous tendencies were even parodied in a Saturday Night Live sketch about the show consulting a 267-year-old boy on the plot, whose primary objective is to show as many boobs as possible.
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When Poussey Washington died on Orange Is the New Black, the internet was alight with black women and LGBTQ women furiously protesting the gratuitous killing of a character who meant so much to so many.
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But if, like me, you felt that DX's wild, gratuitous hedonism detracted a little from the purity of the original CE's austere design, just know that CE 2 eats another few dots along that path.
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In the field of Japanese comic book production, there's a term of art called "fan service": the introduction of material, usually gratuitous sexual imagery, that serves no narrative purpose but to please the hardcore devotees.
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But Mr. Kelly's dream includes much more, a great deal of which seems gratuitous, like the awkward bits of audience participation or the five or six movie-trailer-style ads for other coming dance shows.
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The Federal Reserve should let the private sector proceed on its perfectly healthy course of modernizing the United States payments system and not make such a gratuitous push for a major role of its own.
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Maybe the government can promise to pay fees in perpetuity, in effect "renting" the repaired levee or waterworks — but that makes it even clearer that we're basically engaged in a gratuitous handout to select investors.
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Women of the leisure class wore constricting corsets that did not permit a great deal of movement, let alone strenuous labor; their male counterparts often carried gratuitous canes that suggested a physical inability to work.
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From its gratuitous rape scenes and brutal deaths to incestuous affairs and mind-blowing plot-twists, the HBO fantasy drama may have generated the most WTF moments of any show in the history of television.
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His argument, if that term can apply to such an inchoate position, is that America for too long has been "losing," a situation he has set out to correct with nonnegotiable demands and gratuitous confrontations.
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The MMA elbow knock out skills of Anderson Silva, Jon Jones and Gary Goodridge, sensational and novel in their own right, somehow pale in comparison to the gratuitous, but graceful, disrespect of the Thai elbow.
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But what made it stand out was a sophisticated understanding of how pop music functions as sensory overload and emotional release, culminating in a finale that was a gratuitous, indulgent, loud explosion of pure joy.
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His gratuitous deregulation agenda, the lynchpin of the White House's public works projects, allows the administration to sell Americans' public health and public lands to industry and special interests to finance the infrastructure spending program.
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" The ability to shrug off the mean crack, the sexist joke, the gratuitous jab at the weak is, in some quarters, seen as a form of strength, of "being flexible," of "not taking shit serious.
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In addition to conducting racial profiling on a mass scale and terrorizing immigrant neighborhoods with gratuitous raids and traffic stops and detentions, he oversaw a jail where mistreatment of inmates was the stuff of legend.
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In design, their gratuitous beauty humbles us into reflections on the divine; in cruelty of purpose, they are a memento mori, a symbol of ineluctable fate embodied in the futile wriggling of an ensnared fly.
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"It's insensitive and gratuitous for the artist, primarily — then the curators and the museum — to willingly participate in the long tradition of white people sharing and circulating images of anti-black violence," Lumumba told Hyperallergic.
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Deadpool is seen in a phone booth changing into his uniform, and in the process, he presses his butt cheeks into the glass, giving the audience a gratuitous serving of what is presumably Reynolds's naked butt.
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"The vicious and gratuitous murder of Fred Hicks immediately following the brutal slaying of Judith Sue Crawford was so heinous that the mitigation presented does not outweigh the aggravating factors in this case," the board said.
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Each of these books also addresses the structures and systems in place that subject women to violence and the circumstances in which women are forced to undergo such violence — without subjecting readers to gratuitous violence themselves.
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The only thing lamer than laughing at something like this is believing it rises to the level of commentary, and it's embarrassing that anyone greenlit such a gratuitous show of basically calling the president a fag.
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He uses his power over June to force her into humiliating, morally compromising positions, and those blows are actually more emotionally effective than the previous seasons' repeated physical assaults, because they feel calculated rather than gratuitous.
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Are we simply dismissing a tweet as the honest, insensitive opinion of Mr. West, or do we believe enough in the Kanye West genius that we'll sacrifice the gratuitous trolling of rape victims to his dictates?
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Jibes and digs like Mr. [Johnnie] Cochran's gratuitous comments to Detective Tom Lange about his house in Simi Valley conjured up images of the Simi Valley jury that acquitted the police officers who'd beaten Rodney King.
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In retrospect, the sex scene feels gratuitous, but one tends not to question things of that nature when the project is helmed by a female director and creatively backed by the woman starring in the scene.
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In response to the latest lawsuit, a spokesman for Najib said the lawsuits raised concerns about "the unnecessary and gratuitous naming of certain matters and individuals that are only relevant to domestic political manipulation and interference".
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Like Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" before it (which this seems in response to), "Swish Swish" is full of gratuitous celebrity appearances that offer little more than the novelty of seeing these people in the same place.
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Yet the excerpts from "Get On The Good Foot," a tribute revue that Philadanco participated in at the Apollo Theater in 2013, largely squander the funkiest of grooves in favor of gratuitous remixes and false emotion.
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This grid has a lot of constraints on it, which may be the reason for the fair-to-middling fill, although I liked the revealer and the long Downs, GRATUITOUS and the debut of ANGIE'S LIST.
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The perks many Trump officials demand — the gratuitous first-class travel, the double super-secret soundproof phone booths, and so on — are outrageous, and they tell you a lot about the kind of people they are.
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Such R-rated comedies have become all the rage ever since "The Hangover," but that clone army has been uneven at best, and it's not uncommon for boundary-pushing material to be more gratuitous than inspired.
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Game of Thrones, for example—a renowned benchmark for dramatic television writing—seemingly couldn't finish a single episode throughout its first few seasons without a gratuitous rape scene or some other violent manipulation of women characters.
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It's a horrific image — Trump putting young children in what critics are labeling "prison camps" — and one that seems like more gratuitous cruelty from an administration that's not afraid to use cruelty to make its point.
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But the remix switches focus a bit, mostly likely to showcase nabbing two big names like Skep and Chip, plus a Jammer cameo (though the same model makes a reappearance and several gratuitous booty shots do, too).
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And the child soldier scene was gratuitous, even if the mission's opening featured Farah's father ushering her through a Russian massacre of her small village in one of the most disturbing video game cinematics I've ever witnessed.
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It's a gratuitous portrayal — her shorts appear to have ridden all the way up into Robbie's lower intestine at one point (they were rumored to be digitally altered in trailers after production on the film was complete).
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But the Eagles defense not only allowed the Lions an answering score, they escorted them toward the end zone with a gratuitous hit on a helmetless Stafford: The second half was a tight, back-and-forth affair.
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LG's newest flagship phone features a metal housing, which is not only a welcome change to the company's gratuitous use of plastics in previous handsets, but a necessity if it wants to compete with Samsung and Apple.
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"He needs to quit these gratuitous attacks on other Americans, not only those who competed with him for the nomination, but various Americans based on their ethnicity, which is completely unacceptable in America in 2016," he said.
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But images of gratuitous violence against unarmed targets — which is evident from the movie's trailer — took on a new dimension as mass shootings over the weekend in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, dominated the news cycle.
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"President Trump's decision to end the DACA program would be cruel, gratuitous and devastating to tens of thousands of New Yorkers, and I will sue to protect them," Schneiderman said before the administration made its decision public.
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"In large part because we do not like confrontation and don't feel like generating gratuitous ire when there is so much ire already overabundant in the world," my friend Rebecca, who is getting married this year, said.
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Much more than a show on television, Game of Thrones has become (at least for those who have only seen the show casually, if ever) a byword for misogyny, gratuitous violence, and breathy monologues amid exotic climes.
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As Mr. Mitchelson had just died and Mr. Spector was about to stand trial for murder in Los Angeles, that would be an example of a "gratuitous item" — meaning Mr. Presten received no payment for the placement.
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Motorola's gratuitous use of glue makes the device tricky to open in the first place, and even then there are plenty of flex cables that are easy to accidentally snap, creating "booby traps" for would-be repairers.
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But between 2000 and 2019, those dividends grew at an almost violent 22 percent annualized pace, even as the company simultaneously spent tens of billions more on the gratuitous pursuit of buying shares of its own stock.
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Perhaps seeking to distance themselves from the gratuitous whimsy of the cake-throwers and men in mouse masks, chart-bothering EDM producers have begun churning out songs with lyrics that resemble inspirational quotes penned by the Used.
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"The childishness, the gratuitous fear-mongering and race baiting has become so consistent that we almost expect it, the bar has been lowered so far," Gregg Popovich, head coach of the San Antonio Spurs basketball team, told reporters.
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You could write off a day at the spa as gratuitous, an indulgent pastime reserved for the rich and the privileged, the same people who can afford to stay in Aman hotels and resorts every time they travel.
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" The terrorist violence of neo-Fascists in Italy in the nineteen-seventies, for example, was gratuitous, in that it did away with "any need to answer for its deeds" and kept them "uncontaminated by the leprosy of reason.
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I don't ever want to be gratuitous or anything but I think it goes to if you're not getting it at home — the education or the exposure or the conversations…sometimes people don't know how to have that.
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A ten day launch window for the Electron opens this Sunday at 5pm ET. Oh, and here's a completely gratuitous photo of the rocket with googly eyes, in case you needed that:Excellent Photoshop Work By Andrew Liszewski[Space.com]
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Although America remains in tatters economically, if Schwarzenegger teaches us anything over the course of an hour and a half of gratuitous violence, it's that the dogged pursuit of truth in the face of tyranny is worth it.
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If you were a NATO ally looking at all these gratuitous insults, you could be forgiven for believing that you couldn't trust the Trump administration to have your back in the event of an actual high-stakes crisis.
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Instead, the SEC asserted Monday, the advisors acted negligently by steering customers into higher-fee fund share classes and keeping them in accounts with gratuitous "wrap fees," which cover trading charges even when a client's trading is minimal.
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The "finsta" or dark Instagram, is a separate account which users accept very few followers, then post whatever they want — niche memes, gratuitous selfies, personal anecdotes — without worrying about judgement or how many likes their posts will get.
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But what makes it more than a gratuitous pay-cable sex scene is the look on Kip's face late at night, gazing regretfully at the nude bodies of Jamie and Alex as they sleep wrapped around each other.
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The gift was all the more gratuitous considering that Kim did not reciprocate with any corresponding concession such as pulling back North Korea's thousands of rockets and artillery tubes targeted at Seoul from just across the Demilitarized Zone.
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After all, in a country that preaches rehabilitation yet practices gratuitous imprisonment and punishment for its own sake, society should encourage those who turn over a new leaf and want to contribute to their country through public service.
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" He then threw in a gratuitous paragraph saying, "Hey, please, take more notice of how concerned people are about school busing and appoint Supreme Court justices who will be more skeptical of the school busing and integration push.
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Visual novels often occupy a niche within an already niche medium, and this has led to many games seeking appeal via gratuitous displays of sexual content, with some even going so far as to include explicit sexual scenes.
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That doesn't mean it is intrinsically unimportant, but let's be honest: Many of us consume political news and commentary in a compulsive, concupiscent sort of way, voluntarily subjecting ourselves to gratuitous information and stimuli, particularly on social media.
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The only thing that this show appears capable of is retreating into tired fantasy tropes complete with dark warlords, gratuitous nudity (predominantly female), and chaotic evil women that could, in a moment of heated anger, obliterate the world.
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"President Trump's decision to end the DACA program would be cruel, gratuitous, and devastating to tens of thousands of New Yorkers—and I will sue to protect them," New York Attorney General Schneiderman said in an emailed statement.
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There's plenty of toplessness, one pretty girl feasts on her lovers, and the musical numbers include a mostly gratuitous Soviet nightclub performance of Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" that could've come straight out of a Pedro Almodóvar comedy.
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Over the course of two tweets, Trump pushed back on McGahn's testimony to Mueller that Trump asked him to get the Department of Justice to fire Mueller, and worked in a gratuitous shot at the media in the process.
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"While willfulness may be inferred from blatantly wrongful conduct, such as a gratuitous kick to the head, an officer's mistake, fear, misperception, or even poor judgment does not constitute willful conduct under federal criminal civil rights law," Donoghue said.
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His statements on torture convey a gratuitous and undisciplined sentiment that is unbecoming of a Commander in Chief of the United States and that would begin to warp America into the enemy it is fighting if not reined in.
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"Originally, I was gonna put Drakeo on it, because I know that's what my boy be doing," Swaye says, referring to the song's lyrics about the gratuitous consumption of prescription-grade cough syrup and dark nights of solitary skullduggery.
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It has to make you wonder why you twisted and turned and tried to justify your support of him in the face of his petulant, gratuitous attack on the Muslim parents of a soldier who died fighting for America.
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Understanding how America arrived to such a cruel and sadistic place -- acts of gratuitous violence and, according to the president of the American Association of Pediatrics, "government-sanctioned child abuse" -- requires we identify those who champion these horrific policies.
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Violence is only gratuitous when it serves no purpose, and throughout "Friday Black" we are aware that the violence is crucially related to both what is happening in America now, and what happened in its bloody and brutal history.
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When Thor is reintroduced after the big time skip, the whole notion of the gratuitous Marvel shirtless scene is turned on its head: Hemsworth's unkempt god has let himself go, trading his superhero physique for a transformational beer gut.
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This movie feels gratuitous in terms of scope and scale and budget and attention, so just to acknowledge that they might have some actual meaningful role to play in our general existential society consciousness is really nice of you.
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Also at play is a heightened awareness of how women are portrayed in culture, reflected in criticism of HBO shows like "Game of Thrones" and "Westworld" for what some say is the gratuitous female nudity and violence against women.
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In his director's statement, Damien Power, who also wrote the script, cites '70s "survival thrillers" as his inspiration, and like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," this movie has the hallmarks of torture porn: gratuitous slaughter, remorseless murderers and gruesome acts.
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The world's most valuable company wants high-quality shows with big names and wide appeal, but it doesn't want gratuitous sex, profanity or violence, the WSJ said in a report released Saturday, citing producers and agents it spoke to.
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However, the row of small acrylic stripe paintings by Nayland Blake from the mid-1990s and the two still-lifes by Gedi Sibony from 2017-2018 were gratuitous gestures by artists who made their name working in other mediums.
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Being that I am so fueled by all that is lavish and decadent, I sometimes struggle to draw the line between the little delights that make life that much more enjoyable for the luxury-loving Taurus, and the fully gratuitous.
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When the show did kill off the character, it did so in a teasing season cliffhanger, which culminated in an act of such remarkably gratuitous, unnecessary violence that it made headlines — and drove viewers away from the show in significant numbers.
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But all three were members of good standing in their respective parties — they didn't pick gratuitous fights with their major partisan allies, and they certainly didn't portray their parties' leading electoral officials as corrupt sellouts trying to hoodwink their own voters.
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It isn't the copious amount of foul language and "fucks" the film has to give (somewhere around 35, give or take for different variations, mumbled, or muttered half-fucks), or even the gratuitous violence that hammers this point into the ground.
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In fiction, the gratuitous descends from André Gide's 1914 novel, " Les Caves du Vatican ," in which the callow young Frenchman Lafcadio, on a train between Rome and Naples, spots a man he knows slightly and pushes him off the moving train.
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It features an over-the-top, gratuitous trigger warning before an episode of the in-show drama American Hero Story, one that feels like red meat for whatever audience exists in the Venn diagram intersection between Watchmen and Fox News.
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That is why the Republican move to lay off federal workers and reduce the benefits of those who remain is so significant, as is a gratuitous revival of a rule that lets them punish individual bureaucrats by slashing their pay.
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Following a fittingly dramatic promo video loaded with gratuitous shots of the concept car's curves, Yueting hailed it on his phone using voice recognition, a nod to the company's plan to market the LeSEE as a sort of futuristic, autonomous taxi.
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A moment like the one above comes from the deep-seated assumption that superhero franchises are really for men and that in this woke era there needs to be a gratuitous moment to pander to the women in the room.
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And Mortal Kombat not only paved the way for the gratuitous and controversial over-the-top depictions of violence in modern games, it was also partly responsible for the creation of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) back in 1994.
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"On the day that will go down in history as Anti-LGBT Day comes one more gratuitous and extraordinary attack on LGBT people's civil rights," said a statement from James Esseks, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's LGBT & HIV Project.
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The message voters sent is that they resent gratuitous accusations of racism simply because they opposed President Obama's policies, recognized Obamacare for the disaster it was, and were tired of the lack of real wage or job growth in their lives.
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It has a quad-core 2.6GHz i7-173HQ Intel Skylake processor, an Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M GPU, a USB-C port with Thunderbolt 3, a 512GB SSD backing a 1TB hard drive, and a frankly gratuitous 32GB of DDR4 RAM.
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An openly gratuitous, gruesome post depicting fatal violence against a teenager posted by a man insinuating that he was the one who killed her should rank among the easiest type of content to flag by an algorithm trained to do so.
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It is also the day House Republicans will try to pass a bill that would repeal Obamacare—a gratuitous thumb in the eye of anyone who helped write or pass the Affordable Care Act, or who has benefitted from it since.
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The Christian concept of grace comes to mind, and as it does I am transported from the moment of gratuitous bliss—the word "Christian" is the fulcrum—to a painful and shameful reality of my inner life as a child.
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Still, her immediate entry into the world of magic feels rushed in the pilot (as does most of Episode 1, a flurry of exposition and character introductions) — and did she need to find her way there via a gratuitous sexual attack?
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Along the way, Castle endures nearly as much punishment as he dishes out (although "The Punishee" doesn't have quite the same ring to it), and the gore factor rises to bordering-on-gratuitous heights during the closing flurry of episodes.
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Just as with Facebook's censorship guidelines, there's a fine line between what is in the public's interest and what is gratuitous violence—a distinction that the media has grappled with in deciding how best to cover these kinds of videos.
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"The only remaining deterrent it seems is that there will be real accountability in the court of world opinion and disgust – goodness knows, nothing else seems to be working to stop this deliberate, gratuitous carnage of lives lost," he said.
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His gratuitous goodbye letter to Thibodeau, while written in dense corporatese, made no effort to veil his contempt for the outgoing coach; this is how you say "fuck you" while using words like "interdepartmental" and "foment," an art Reinsdorf has mastered.
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"Empowerment" here is quite the misleading word, as you'll feel none of it while watching Mother brutally beaten and exploited, especially in the movie's climactic sequence—whether that feels gratuitous is up to the viewer, though its producers argue otherwise.
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"I don't know what type a woman needs to be for him to decide to sexually assault someone, but that kind of gratuitous insult about her appearance is the kind of the thing that juries and judges look to," Kaplan said.
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Among the questions the editors discussed were whether prominent use of the image on the front page would be seen as gratuitous (they decided it wasn't) and whether it added important context to our coverage of the border, Ms. Flynn said.
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But British dramatist Stephen Jeffreys's work is so rigorous in its emotional truth, so complex in its intellectual arguments, and so comical when comedy is the only fallback position, that nothing (including simulated shagging and a dildo dance) seems gratuitous.
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And of course, no Republican bill would be complete without taking a gratuitous swipe at Planned Parenthood, which the Senate bill defunds for one year even though the organization is already prohibited from using federal dollars to finance abortion services.
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Over six seasons, the show has unfurled a sprawling narrative that occasionally veers into gratuitous sex and violence, but more frequently presents complex sequences — high-stakes weddings and battles, often — that are more richly cinematic than the average Hollywood blockbuster.
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But for the latter movement, stories of officer-involved shootings were dismissed at first as gratuitous race-baiting, then as exceptional cautionary tales, then as isolated incidents, then as pleas not to allow one bad apple to spoil the bunch.
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" Justice Huot announced the sentence after a hearing of more than five hours, during which he gave a minute-by-minute account of the rampage, which he said was "premeditated, gratuitous and abject" and motivated by "visceral hatred toward Muslims.
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If you can find some way, however gratuitous, to mention the president's name in the text, that's great — unless he's already stopped reading before he even gets to what you're trying to say because someone else didn't jam his name into a paragraph.
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Are the Hillary Campaign nerds too young to remember the documentary "The War Room," where a grinning Bill Clinton remarks how he loved the Republicans ad hominem attacks because they allowed him an opportunity to hit back and not seem mean or gratuitous?
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"ABC News gave careful consideration to publishing these images, which are evidence of the mistreatment of a child and not in any way gratuitous, and we believe their publication is strongly in the public interest," the news network said in a statement.
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His gratuitous disclosure of the discovery of new emails (which may or may not have anything to do with Hillary Clinton) has done more to politicize the bureau than anything done by any other FBI director since Hoover died in office in 1972.
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YouTubers like Tyler Oakley, Grace Helbig, Lilly Singh and more – as well as thousands and thousands of their adoring fans – are tweeting about the convention in Anaheim, California, while attending panels, discussions, meet-and-greets, performances and taking gratuitous selfies, of course.
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Tasha: I'm so used to HBO's tits-n-butts-n-blood-n-guts aesthetic that nothing in Westworld really registered as meaningfully excessive until the orgy scene, and that only hit home because it was so utterly pointless, so willfully, obviously gratuitous.
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There were other things in, for example, in "Sicario" that I thought pushed the envelope, the sort of gratuitous and casual torture taking place on US territory, that in my experience, you know, it happens very rarely, I'm really not aware of it.
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"I will continue to do all I can to fight back against the Obama administration's repeated and gratuitous attacks on our coal miners whose only crime is working hard to maintain a reliable source of energy and provide for their families," McConnell said.
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His latest album, Father Figure—which we dubbed "An Album For Anyone Who Likes Breathing and/or Good Music"—combines undulating electronic beats with trap-influenced flows that get their melodic qualities from Raj's church-worthy singing voice instead of gratuitous autotune.
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"Under the laws of war, absent a treaty, there is nothing wrong with coercive interrogation, applying pain, discomfort and other things to make people talk, so long as it doesn't cross the line and involve the gratuitous barbarity involved in torture," Barr said.
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The roommates trope allows them to have that epiphany while being super domestic and acting as if they're already married, resulting in a heady bouquet of confusion, sexual tension, gratuitous touching, and any number of sweet romantic moments that ratchet up the excitement.
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Act 3 is prolonged by gratuitous solos for Siegfried's pal Benno and Odette's nemesis, the sorcerer, Rothbart; Act 4 is rushed, with no opportunity for Odette and Siegfried to release emotion before they decide to defy the sorcerer Rothbart and take their lives.
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But any gratuitous cut in immigration threatens to cause a recession at home, and would be a reminder of that older Australia that thought it could have it both ways: as an exporter to the region who didn't want its people in return.
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The juxtaposition of gratuitous gore and tour-guide patter finally became too much when, outside of a narrow alley, our guide passed around a photograph of the Ripper's final victim, a woman named Mary Jane Kelly, taken by the police after her death.
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Nuclear disarmament will occur not through the caprice of an egocentric president, but through a renewed grass-roots global movement to halt a gratuitous nuclear arms race and to rid the Earth of nuclear weapons before we suffer an actual nuclear catastrophe.
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"What happens here is nothing more than gratuitous porn," the Hollywood Reporter's Boyd van Hoeij wrote, adding that in Kechiche's other films, the explicit sex moments did not jar as much, building on a much more developed rapport between some of the characters.
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Their fitful attempts to reconcile grow a bit melodramatic by the end of the film, which was directed by Jim O'Hanlon and written by Leon F. Butler, though Mr. Elba has plenty of gratuitous opportunities to show off his well-toned body.
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But polling and focus groups reflect a growing unease among a small but potentially decisive group of voters who sided with Mr. Trump in 2016 but are increasingly turned off by the unremitting nastiness, the gratuitous squabbles and the endless chaos he sows.
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However, rumors that Tim Cook had prohibited programming from including any sex or gratuitous violence has dogged the service ahead of its official release, leading to a presumption that Apple's streaming service will be about as clean-cut as the company itself.
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Hypocrisy can be aspirational: Political actors claim that they are motivated by ideals perhaps to a greater extent than they really are; shedding the mask of hypocrisy asserts that greed, vengeance and gratuitous cruelty aren't wrong, but are legitimate motivations for political behavior.
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After being repeatedly criticized for subjecting its female characters to gratuitous rape scenes over the years, "Game of Thrones" staged a female uprising in its sixth season, in which Sansa Stark got revenge on her rapist (with the help of killer dogs).
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Several of Ms. Bouder's clichés are thoroughly 21st-century ones: She can use same-sex partnering or make the women do the partnering, but in her work these devices look like gratuitous afterthoughts amid a piece whose gender politics are largely conventional.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair's gratuitous snog twists the trope of the American Pie sex romp genre, playing out to the malaise of Blur's "Coffee & TV" rather than some appropriately adolescent pop-punk or a sweet acoustic number by a singer-songwriter.
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They're stilted and strange, with bland stories that get stuck in first gear, performances that can't escape director George Lucas's apparent desire to create an emotionless universe, and gratuitous visual effects that at times seem to be the movies' main reason to exist.
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What happens to her in the aftermath is left to our imagination, and while it's clear she is undoubtedly facing severe punishment for practicing bodily autonomy, the absence of descriptions of further violence against her make Dalcher's treatment of sexual violence feel anything but gratuitous.
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The OnePlus 7 still has the so-called 2.5D Gorilla Glass, but that's just a softening of the very edge, whereas the 7 Pro has some gratuitous slopes on its sides that make it harder to grip and easier to accidentally palm something on screen.
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For Gide and his modernist disciples, the "unmotivated crime," the gratuitous act, was a challenge to both the European civilization of the Enlightenment and the older Christian civilization, which in their different ways maintained that human behavior is shaped by reason, motive, and purpose.
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He sees the rape and murder on Monte Circeo as "gratuitous" because it was a crime that he feels any of his classmates could have committed—essentially date rape taken to a terrible extreme—and one in which they are, in a sense, collectively complicit.
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This may be why Albinati the Catholic-school alumnus is fascinated by it: because rape is a brutal rejection of the traditional Catholic teaching that sexual intercourse is meant for the purpose of procreation in marriage and that all other sex is immoral—gratuitous.
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Little did I know, I was about to embark on an hour-and-a-half-long filming session during which I followed Jenner's lead (tutorial above) down to the last detail (I also took a few gratuitous selfies, but I imagine she probably did, too).
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Over the top, gratuitous hack porn is constantly looking for the next elaborate way to break in, or demonstrating a hot new attack that may seem realistic and slick in the demonstration, but is nothing like the reality most people are going to face.
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" She said, "But I think, because I know Ted Cruz, and I don't know and have never met Donald Trump, that with Donald Trump I hope he can minimize his weaknesses, change his approach, knock off the gratuitous personal insults, and draw on his strengths.
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If, for example, they understood cruel and unusual to mean "causing gratuitous physical suffering," then judges would have to decide that 90 days of solitary confinement for simple battery is not cruel and unusual because the suffering is not so much physical as psychological.
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On first watch, I found it painful, both in terms of its gratuitous, sadistic violence, and also in terms of its absurdity: How could this pass for normal activity in a refugee camp 200 miles from perhaps the most-watched border on the planet?
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LiBa Mildew Resistant Anti-Bacterial PEVA Shower Curtain Liner, $8.99, available at AmazonEspecially when living with roommates, cutting corners on gratuitous style in favor of utility is a smart strategy — it keeps your place looking nice without effort from one member more than others.
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In the interim, there's a tremendous amount of bloodshed -- blunted in its impact by the fact that some of it feels gratuitous, and a lot of it directed toward characters (a term used loosely, in some places) about which there's little reason to care.
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And given how spectacular this God of War looks, and noting its debut on PlayStation 4, it wouldn't have been shocking to see the developers follow in their old footsteps, indulging in over-the-top and gratuitous violence meant to shock the player's sense.
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People often forget the importance of offering dancefloor relief via gratuitous melody, and like countless Red Planet releases or so many other Detroit classics, a tune like this manages to be demanding on your legs while at the same time overflowing with beautiful instrumentation.
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" A work of Marxist sociology and scalding polemic, it took a gratuitous swipe at the New Negro: the black upper class, Frazier said, had "either ignored the Negro Renaissance or, when they exhibited any interest in it, they revealed their ambivalence towards the Negro masses.
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On "Screen Memories," he gives us synths with the glow of an old TV screen, New Order bass lines (minus the exuberance), and lyrics ranging from the deftly ominous ("It's written on the walls of silence") to the simply gratuitous ("Your pets are gonna die").
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Its new handhelds featured a gratuitous use of plastic—from the housings, to the buttons, to even the display covers—and simple segmented LCD screens, barely a couple of inches in size, that could only display a limited and crude collection of graphics and animations.
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Though all of Radigue's slowly shifting works are very long (some over an hour) and demand our full concentration, only the two versions of her 1971 Buchla piece "Chry-ptus" included in the box set seem gratuitous — there are only slight variations between them.
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" In an email, the writer Roxane Gay, who has been published in NOON, said of her experience working with Ms. Williams: "She really stripped away everything unnecessary, and that is something she does expertly without being gratuitous or disrespectful to the work she is editing.
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Although the show remains widely acclaimed, some critics found the brutality of the second season's early episodes — in which June painstakingly cuts a tracking tag out of her ear and Emily provides a window into the hopelessness of life in the euphemistically named Colonies — gratuitous.
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"Your age could be a consideration when it comes to cultural fit," she tells CNBC Make It. Laura Slawson, certified professional resume writer and owner of The Creative Advantage, agrees that including your graduation date is gratuitous, unless you're applying for an entry-level position.
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In contrast, The Bachelor keeps getting too real in ways it isn't set up to handle — as with the multiple racism controversies, the latest musical guest episode, or with the gratuitous "mean girls" drama that just highlights the gendered banality of the flagship show's premise.
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Researching and writing about the crimes was daunting, Cummins said — "There were a lot of details I didn't want to know" — but it brought some relief and helped her learn how to write about trauma in a way that didn't feel gratuitous or sensational.
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"The Democrats' use of a phone call with the president of Ukraine — with a transcript the President himself released — served as their excuse for this partisan, gratuitous, and pathetic attempt to overthrow the Trump Administration and the results of the 2016 election," Grisham said.
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The news accounts of this rightly focused on Trump's gratuitous combativeness with the leader of one of our closest allies, but I was equally riveted by another detail: The president spent a portion of the call reliving and reveling in his Electoral College victory.
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Opposition to the president based upon gratuitous definitions of treason cannot realistically be separated from opposition to the millions of fellow citizens who voted for him, who in turn see the cry of treason as a self-serving attack on them and their choices.
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" AR: "I think part of the reason that the sex scenes don't feel exploitative, or gratuitous, is I really did think a lot about the female gaze, and how to portray it in a way where the women were in control, and they were in power.
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Ironically, it is the FCC's own response to this situation—complete stonewalling—that best underscores the need for records-seeking journalists to ferret out facts agencies can't be trusted to provide, and why freedom of information will always be the greatest stalwart against extreme and gratuitous secrecy.
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This game, even with its silly God talk, came as a bit of a relief after Saturday night's A.F.C. playoff game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cincinnati Bengals, which served, with its impressive stupidity and violent gratuitous hits, to demonstrate why football is so often indefensible.
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The two already prompt a lot of comparison thanks to their supplementary time slots and gratuitous violence, but "Reunion" was the first time the dystopian epic seemed to pull direct inspiration from the George R.R. Martin adaptation, and it took us a whole season to get here.
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He is referring to an event in the second season of "Game of Thrones", a series famous for gratuitous nudity, extraordinary violence and a huge array of characters, from a wise and libidinous dwarf to a princess who convinces three dragons that she is their mother.
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"Gold" (2018), a period film on India winning its first post-independence Olympic gold medal in field hockey, crossed the 1 billion rupee ($14.1 million) milestone at the domestic box office in August, but was panned by some critics for its slow pace and gratuitous nationalism.
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The makers of Mario mightn't seem likely bedfellows for a game featuring a bucket-load of blood and guts and gratuitous profanity—not to mention a lead character whose own hair is her outfit, and can be temporarily shed to form weapons—but here we are.
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I had heard it was a show in which cowboys rape prostitutes, in which McShane played yet another vainglorious anti-hero whose use of the word "fuck" every 20 seconds was an edgy tic, in which gratuitous murders made up a large portion of the action.
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It doesn't have that slight madness of commitment that distinguishes the strongest books in its genre, the thing that will drive so many of us to stand gratefully in line for the new, no doubt wholly gratuitous Harry Potter sequel when it comes out later this year.
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So, having to watch Veronica get attacked and almost sexually assaulted twice in season three felt gratuitous—especially because the show switched gears and moved onto a new mystery, with little to no reflection on the trauma Veronica experienced in the earlier half of season three.
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In many ways, Godzilla vs Hedorah is exactly what you'd expect from the franchise: there are lots of shots of grown men wrestling in monster costumes, gratuitous laser battles, and all the (mostly) intentional comedy that results from the combination of giant monsters and low budget filmmaking.
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Calls from Congress and others for elevating relations between Taipei and Washington, including at the presidential level, bring objections that repeat Beijing's mantra that these are gratuitous provocations, as if all would be peaceful if only Taiwan and its American supporters would quietly accept the status quo.
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Where they could be seen as gratuitous (at least to those readers who are not paying close attention to the news, or to those who intentionally avert their eyes), I find them perfectly paced narratives filled with crackling dialogue and a rewarding balance of tension and release.
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A Few Thoughts While We Survey the Wreckage: • The special citation for the most gratuitous display of gore this week goes to Morgan, whose efforts at amateur espionage land him in a fight he resolves by jamming his finger directly into his attacker's open flesh wound.
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And while Tumblr and Twitter also contain self-injury photos, a new study that looks at photos tagged with #cutting on Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr found that the same app known for gratuitous selfies and #spon posts also hosted the greatest number of self-harm images.
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It's irreverent, but not gratuitous; when judy goes on to sing "We'll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home" (the original words to the song), it is with heartfelt mourning over all the lives — queer and not — that were needlessly lost in America's bloodiest war.
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Business Insider reported that KFC said in a press release that the test is being used to determined if "customers are craving chicken and doughnuts on a national scale" — and it appears that the nation is already divided over the gratuitous new menu items on Twitter.
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Early criticisms of Game of Thrones focused on the show's grisly violence and penchant for sexposition, and as the show has found its footing and developed a larger audience, it's gotten somewhat better about showing the ramifications of bloodshed and cutting down on the gratuitous sex.
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But Harris, through uncomfortable and gratuitous sexual simulations (is there any way they could be subtle and still widely legible?), is asking us to consider the grounds upon which these Black/white relationships, always indelibly marked by coloniality despite our agentic desires, become foundational to dominant society.
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That language is uncalled for and wholly gratuitous, especially in connection with an election featuring a fresh-faced and extremely conservative 33-year-old attorney who seems almost pathologically concerned with fiscal discipline, and if anyone was offended by that language it would certainly be regrettable to me.
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At worst, it produces disastrous policies—early in his term, an ill-considered "travel ban" on citizens of some Muslim-majority countries led to chaos at airports and hardship for travelers, while the separation of families at the border earlier this year was widely condemned as pointless, gratuitous cruelty.
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For Apple's content business, gratuitous profanity, sex or violence are all verboten as the company tries to thread the needle between being a widely beloved producer of high quality consumer goods and purveyor of paid entertainment to a public that's increasingly enthralled with blood and gore at its circuses.
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We wanted to be sure we were serving these issues well, not being gratuitous, not being violent for the sake of being violent — but rather portraying these events in a way that would make their impact unmistakable, and hopefully further the dialogue around these issues in our culture.
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The Internet of Things is like nudity on TV: it feels natural in some places and gratuitous in others For some people, this type of convenience is worth any price or amount of ridicule; thanks to the internet, we no longer have to remember to do things ourselves.
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When Chancellor Angela Merkel was wrestling with a dire political crisis in Germany this week, Mr. Trump jumped in with a typically gratuitous swipe about how migration is "rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition," throwing in the falsehood that crime in Germany is "way up" because of immigrants.
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More important, perhaps, is the fact that despite its growing political moderation and its Democratic governor, Virginia is among the states still refusing to expand Medicaid, even though that refusal means gratuitous financial hardship for many and a significant number of people dying from lack of medical care.
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Yet early trailers for Part II — one, in particular, that featured a girl getting her arm permanently disfigured by a hammer — seemed to deliver a level of gratuitous carnage that left many wondering whether Naughty Dog was going too far or amping up the gruesomeness for shock value.
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" The critic and author Michelle Orange points to the original seasons of "Twin Peaks" as "a master class in the difference between building an authentic, cumulative sense of suspense (Season 1) and the completely gratuitous, cheap use of cliffhangers to keep people tuning in next week (Season 2).
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My exhaustion with the idea of "Confederate" is multiplied by the realization that this show is the brainchild of two white men who oversee a show that has few people of color to speak of and where sexual violence is often gratuitous and treated as no big deal.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. special rapporteur on torture urged U.S. authorities to investigate and weigh criminal charges against jail officials in Ohio, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Arkansas for the "clearly gratuitous infliction of severe pain and suffering" from the use of Tasers on inmates, citing a Reuters report this week.
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" - Sue, 57 "I generally avoid shows with gratuitous sexual violence (especially when that violence is subjected on female characters to be used as a plot device for their male partners), so listening to my coworkers prattle on about it for the past few years has been a little grating.
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The reboot's attempts at modernization also came in for particular loathing, including a ham-fisted take on meme culture, a gratuitous twerking scene, and the presence of demi-misogynist villain Manboy, a would-be lumberjack criticised by Slate's Eric Thurm as an overly obvious take on the men's rights movement.
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There's no need for gratuitous or overly graphic period talk just to make people uncomfortable, but if you find that you're self-censoring when it comes to bringing up your period, try dropping it into normal conversation, the way that you'd tell someone that you have allergies or a cold.
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This is precisely the kind of violence that has permeated Game of Thrones throughout its entire run — gratuitous showdowns that writers on this very website have agreed are boring or don't make sense between people who will either both be killed off or end up on the same side after all.
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There is too much gratuitous death, as in the images of hunters taking down polar bears, which once powerful and stately after the crack of a hunter's rifle are made into an inert mound of fur and flaccid carcass which is then dragged across the ice as some scavenger's plunder.
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If the Democrats succeed in defeating the Senate health care bill -- which, despite its recent setback, is still very much in play -- it will be in large part because opponents, from elected officials to "resistance" activists, focused on the issue at hand and mostly eschewed gratuitous shots at the White House.
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" Over this period of hard drinking, Jamison sells a novel, discusses Milton's Paradise Lost in bed after sex with Dave, has an abortion, and then undergoes heart surgery "to correct persistent tachycardia—episodes of rapid, gratuitous heartbeats that I was told would slowly wear out my heart before its time.
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What's more, the plot itself, in Asher's telling, was the direct result of a gratuitous insult Algren inserted into "The Man with the Golden Arm"—mockingly employing the surnames of two known turncoats who had identified, sometimes for money, many former friends and colleagues as members of the Communist Party.
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Women in the series fall into one of two camps: the faceless (but not assless—Slashfilm counted 137 gratuitous shots of women across the first seven movies) women who gyrate at parties or street races, and the cool chicks who keep up with the dudes in their own 'suped up rides.
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They present it for what it appears to be: two gratuitous interlopers who are more than happy to put out a ton of immigrants and completely change a culture of cities like New York and San Francisco for the sake of improving and sanitizing and Wall-E-izing, really, American culture.
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When I called to say that I would be flying up to see him, my father made the expected but unexpectedly feeble attempt to dismiss my urgency as baseless and my visit as gratuitous, yet, as soon as I walk into the bedroom, I can tell he is happy to have me there.
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Despite his unparalleled ability to draw box office crowds to see something other than superhero movies, critics have accused Tarantino of only having three signature themes to unite his celebrated oeuvre: loud soundtracks filled with rare gems, a love of making actors say the n-word, and gratuitous depictions of violence against women.
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At times the president's insults have been gratuitous: On November 29, Trump retweeted a video showing a Muslim migrant beating up a Dutch boy on crutches, which was followed by another video featuring a Muslim destroying a Virgin Mary statue and a third showing a mob pushing a boy off a roof.
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Yet as the film progresses, its gratuitous peppering mostly recalls the hideous scene in Pulp Fiction in which Tarantino cast himself as a slacker with a black wife just so he could repeatedly say, "Do you see a sign in my house that says dead-nigger storage?" to a cowed Samuel L. Jackson.
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Although their graphicness ranges from the gratuitous to the insinuated, this permeation of sexual assault is too often used as a plot device that gives female characters something to react to—a devastating raison d'etre—or, worse, a throwaway narrative to illustrate something about a male anti-hero at the story's center.
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"Essentially, this is just a gratuitous slap in the face, not a body blow," said Kate Cronin-Furman, a human rights lawyer and political scientist at the Harvard Kennedy School, who predicted that the election of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States would lead to more harm for the court.
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Photo by Walter Wlodarczyk With its funky baseline and gratuitous (but not too much) cowbell with Siouxsie and the Banshees-like vocals, "Grass Shack" — the latest release from Guerilla Toss off their upcoming album Eraser Stargazer — will throw you into a weird, funked-out mood just in time for the sun to shine.
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The Trump-appointed judges clearly understand their marching orders; one of those new Fifth Circuit judges, James C. Ho, has already referred in a published opinion in a separate case to "the moral tragedy of abortion," a gratuitous comment that, whatever its purpose, served to make him stand out from the crowd.
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"Queen Sugar" airs on OWN, a network catering largely to women of color, and it's as if the creators thoughtfully considered how their audience, painfully familiar with the violent videos that circulate after a police killing, might feel about witnessing another gratuitous visualization of violence against a black body, even if fictional.
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Seated in the designated President's pew halfway down the church aisle, the President listened as McPherson lamented Friday's terror spree in New Zealand -- "one more gratuitous attack on innocent people at worship"-- and called on congregants to muster enough courage to denounce the type of hate speech that the attack's perpetrator espoused.
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The next day, after the National Park Service retweeted an accurate post about the size of the Inaugural crowd, the President called the director of the service to ask why its staff had shared the item—surely the most gratuitous case of Presidential intimidation of the career bureaucracy since the Nixon Administration.
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Facebook "You will not post content that: is hate speech, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence," Facebook's ToS commands—but of course, the world's largest social network has always struggled to moderate its sprawling platform, with revenge porn and livestreamed murders and suicides being an upsettingly common occurrence.
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It was somewhere around the gratuitous dim sum snack station that I found myself truly bowled over by a wildly entrancing assemblage in the shape of a woman comprised of newspaper papier-mâché, lace, wool, plastic baby figurines, and spider webs from 1964 by Niki de Saint Phalle at Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois.
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However, this change in approach revealed that the show's mishandling of rape and nudity was symptomatic of a bigger problem: When instances of gratuitous nudity and rape decreased, women characters suffered, highlighting the inability of showrunners to deploy other tactics to showcase complex character development or invent convincing, creative plot lines for women characters.
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In the strangest of many strange aesthetic decisions, the voices have been slowed down to give the dialogue a baritone sound, as if a combination of (mostly) black-and-white shooting, a fragmented structure, sporadic slow motion, quotations from Rainer Maria Rilke, Godardian title cards and absurdly gratuitous overlays of Bach weren't portentous enough.
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And I wonder about the gratuitous charge he paid for having failed for decades to live up to his own professed Christianity — even knowing that he was failing yet unable to help it — by allowing himself never to be bothered in any way at all with the all-American experience of someone like my father.
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We continue to hope that a way can be found for Benchmark to move forward, having profited so handsomely from the work of Travis Kalanick and many others, and to do so without inflicting gratuitous harm on the company which we have all supported, and for which we continue to have the greatest expectations.
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After the gratuitous theatrics of the season premiere, watching Carol attempt to navigate the bizarre terrain of The Kingdom with a combination of incredulity and mistrust is both fascinating and unexpectedly hilarious — the look on her face when first confronted with "King Ezekiel" (Khary Payton) and his pet tiger Shiva is worth the price of admission alone.
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So the splicing in of hazy, slow-motion close-ups of actors' hands and eyes begins to feel gratuitous and distracting; frankly, I'd go so far as to say it indicates a lack of confidence on the part of the filmmakers — specifically in the viewers, who are presumed to lack the imagination to envision the simplest of scenes.
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Not only were our personal twitter feeds filled with vulgar insults and allegations of having used sexual favors to get to positions of authority, not only were there comments on our bodies and physical appearances, but I personally endured the streets of my hometown being plastered with posters of my face scrawled over with death threats and gratuitous insults.
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Going off what we can glean from the first few Castle Rock trailers, that means we'll get to see prisoners at Shawshank, a very unhappy pooch who may or may not be Cujo, and gratuitous nods to the number 237, though it's still unclear what the show will actually be about—aside from, like, death and horror and stuff.
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Andrew Prokop: Emily, among the many ways to interpret the scene where Arya watches a Braavosi theater troop reenact her father's downfall, perhaps my favorite is that Arya is a die-hard fan of George R.R. Martin's books, gazing on with horror at how that crude, gratuitous nudity-filled, crowd-pleasing HBO adaptation gets so much wrong!
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"According to interviews and to documents that I obtained — federal tax forms, charity records, contracts, corporate filings, and internal communications — a small group of N.R.A. executives, contractors, and vendors has extracted hundreds of millions of dollars from the nonprofit's budget, through gratuitous payments, sweetheart deals, and opaque financial arrangements," reporter Mike Spies wrote for The New Yorker.
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The brief profiles of "The Know-It Alls," sprinkled with gratuitous ad hominem observations (for example, Mr. Cohen writes that PayPal is responsible for "releasing into the wild a self-satisfied Peter Thiel, a one-man wrecking crew who has been sowing chaos through American society up to this very day"), do not get the job done.
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" Stephens stopped short of praising Trump for mocking Christine Ford (he called the president's comments "ugly and gratuitous"), but he did appreciate Trump's willingness to face off against Democrats and the supposed scourge of false rape accusations: "I'll admit to feeling grateful that, in Trump, at least one big bully was willing to stand up to others.
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Everything from the size of a neighbor's dog ("there was something a little conceited in having an animal this big"), to the gratuitous shirtlessness of the unmarried serial D.I.Y.-er a few doors down ("it was still only March, after all"), to his wife's "pragmatism and lack of drama" swirls together, amassing into a more serious crisis.
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With "Star Wars: Episode VIII" on the horizon, Mr. Driver has made peace with the franchise that initially caused him agita, not least for his "very strong opinions about Hollywood movies and how they can be a waste of resources and seem totally gratuitous and dumbed down for an audience and sacrifice story for spectacle," he said.
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Other subplots include Judy's growing frustration at the church's patriarchal traditions — which is much funnier than it sounds, given that one of Judy's modes of rebellion is gratuitous raunchiness, and that she comes with a fiancé (Tim Baltz) so deathly dull he's downright riveting — and Eli's battle against a small local congregation that stands as the David to his Goliath.
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A lawsuit alleging President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE violated the Constitution's so-called emoluments clause now lists "gratuitous Chinese trademarks" among its examples.
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But the more I thought about it, the more I realized how gratuitous my guilt actually was: Fifty years ago, holding out 'til your wedding for a new blender or KitchenAid mixer would have made more sense; most couples were getting married in their early 20s without having lived together beforehand, and they needed kitchenware and furniture for their newly combined household.
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One key excerpt: "For years Mr. Trump treated Mr. Cohen poorly, with gratuitous insults, dismissive statements and, at least twice, threats of being fired, according to interviews with a half-dozen people familiar with their relationship...'Donald goes out of his way to treat him like garbage,' said Roger J. Stone Jr., Mr. Trump's informal and longest-serving political adviser."
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Darnell Hunt, dean of social sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an author of the annual Hollywood Diversity Report, said he had fielded numerous complaints from filmmakers whose projects were passed over because they refused to compromise their vision of casting solely actors of color, or whose movies got made only because they inserted gratuitous white characters.
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