CARYN GANZ For the last couple of months, Daddy Yankee's "Con Calma" has been nigh unavoidable, a gratuitously catchy Spanish-language update of a gratuitously catchy song (Snow's "Informer").
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People usually say WTF gratuitously ... but in this case, WTF!!!
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The trouble was that the system could be gratuitously cruel.
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Yet the language coming out of Ankara has become gratuitously hostile.
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Euphoria is shocking, often gratuitously so, for a number of reasons.
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They have gratuitously exposed the private lives of dedicated civil servants.
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"Nearly every action seems gratuitously … evil," Butterfield said of Trump's first week.
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Incendiary and demeaning content: Content that is gratuitously incendiary, inflammatory, or demeaning.
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Afghanistan is not the place where one wants to gratuitously offend anyone.
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I don't think anyone in that room would ever approach it so gratuitously.
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Why be merely socially conservative when you can be gratuitously cruel as well?
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He frequently denounces academics for draining the vitality from revolutionary history, sometimes gratuitously.
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Third, stop gratuitously attacking the morality or patriotism of candidates and elected officials.
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Why would you jeopardize homeland security, hurt people gratuitously just to play politics?
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We have not put it in headlines and do not cite it gratuitously.
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My Stetson is off: The guy is a gifted and gratuitously generous liar.
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" Butterfield tweeted that much of what Trump has done so far "seems gratuitously… evil.
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Because, yes, women still are frequently gratuitously photoshopped, which has generated ample internet outrage.
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"Last night, he insulted the Republican Governor Martinez of New Mexico, just gratuitously," Mrs.
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The AHCA gratuitously weakens Medicare, decimates Medicaid, and guts insurance for 85033 million people.
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To the extent that the movie has a political angle, it's perhaps gratuitously jingoistic.
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The N.C.A.A. has banned gratuitously hitting the head or neck of an opposing player.
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He also conspicuously -- and gratuitously -- used the modifier "sovereign" when describing New York's interests.
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The president's policy announcement today is gratuitously discriminatory and will damage our national security.
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Or even: Why should opinion writers be allowed to gratuitously insult duly elected officials?
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In the land of Johnson-Trump, gratuitously insulting foreign partners is a mark of virility.
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"Incendiary and demeaning" content that uses "gratuitously disrespectful language" is also included in the guidelines.
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It's not just sex; I find this whole experience—life—gratuitously slow and drawn out.
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Scenes where the Turtles gratuitously beat up on bad guys are few and far between.
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It's just that most people respect human dignity enough not to exploit people's weaknesses gratuitously.
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Both could be gratuitously foul-mouthed, viciously cutting to their enemies and unapologetically politically incorrect.
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An entire dance with the life force was enacted and life was never taken gratuitously.
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In previous versions of DOAXVV, womens' breasts jiggle gratuitously and players can "touch" the girls.
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Any "Romeo" abounds in fights and deaths, but this incident remains among the most gratuitously unpleasant.
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By gratuitously alienating allies and upending trade deals, he has eased the way for China's hegemony.
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I don't mean to give the wrong impression: There's nothing gratuitously gladiatorial about Mr. Abduraimov's playing.
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The exhibition is still packed to the gills, but for the most part not gratuitously so.
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It appears the pilot almost gratuitously delivers the punch out of frustration and then walks away.
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This year's events have felt gratuitously tragic, and many are looking to 2017 for some redemptive qualities.
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"The song gratuitously and repeatedly uses the name 'Sharon Stone' in its lyrics,&apos" the lawsuit states.
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For example, video content that uses gratuitously disrespectful language that shames or insults an individual or group.
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I trust that she and Jared, also gratuitously in attendance, will mention it in their holiday letter.
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To see more photography from Michael Wolf, including his other images of gratuitously populated cities, click here.
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Kurgin, 37, plans to go to court to prove he was gratuitously and violently attacked by the police.
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Unlike its forebears, the G5 grew smaller rather than larger, and LG added features judiciously rather than gratuitously.
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But nothing in the AWA or state anti-cruelty statutes would have prohibited the gratuitously cruel VW experiment.
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He accused Mr. Fischer of gratuitously sharing photos and descriptions of kills, violating the spirit of responsible hunting.
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He knows not to cross certain lines: there is no whining or screeching, and no gratuitously "funny" voices.
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As united wholes, though, both solo discs feel gratuitously one-dimensional compared to what they're capable of together.
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Pieces of EDSA content are also not "gratuitously graphic," according to YouTube's policies on harmful or dangerous content.
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And while all these characteristics might work to its advantage, it's also gratuitously, impractically, and sometimes counterproductively into murder.
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Walk through a crowded cafeteria and curse words pop up gratuitously among students as if vocabulary has failed them.
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Each individual portrait — and the book operates best as a study in portraiture — is complex, but not gratuitously so.
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Gratuitously attacking one's potential allies because you feel that have not been supportive enough rarely leads to good outcomes.
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He gratuitously praised Trump and the White House for fully cooperating, yet the facts found by Mueller plainly show otherwise.
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As with previous devices announced by TRI, the Appassionato (which was "soft-launched" earlier this year) sounds gratuitously high end.
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But The NYT report claims Apple is not focused on shows that are "gratuitously dark" or heavy on social issues.
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It would be easy for it to be a gratuitously violent series, relying on the shock value of teen hatred.
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In season 4, God gratuitously arranges the unlikely death of everyone Jesse tries to help, including cute dogs and children.
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I mean, remember, Michael Flynn, that intercept, was a FISA intercept , that was leaked gratuitously by somebody, probably an Obama holdover.
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By now, if you've ever watched a CAS video, you'll know that he doesn't airbrush the grim, deadly or gratuitously violent.
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How to create a smart, dynamic cover that would reflect the material in question, without being gratuitously and problematically sexualized itself?
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"Derogatory information sometimes is disclosed in the course of criminal investigations and prosecutions, but we never release it gratuitously," Rosenstein wrote.
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I love the body horror in Videodrome — he never uses body horror gratuitously, it's always connected to a theme or character.
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The redrawn districts, the court advised, should be "composed of compact and contiguous territory" and should not gratuitously divide cities and counties.
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In other words, it seems possible that Apple will shy away from projects that are gratuitously dark or heavy on social issues.
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No serious candidate would gratuitously pick a racially charged fight with a federal judge presiding over a lawsuit involving his private business.
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She was clearly as appalled as anyone by the combative culture of the Trump White House, the peculiar barrage of gratuitously insulting tweets.
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But talking about the city with Chast is refreshing, especially as one knows that she's the last person to gratuitously idealize New York.
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But the move provoked a backlash from critics who complained that Tesla had gratuitously constrained the restricted model's range in the first place.
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The cushioning even appears to spill out from the chest, like whipped cream gratuitously smeared on a dessert, ready to dribble at any moment.
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Political opponents have smeared them as Muslim Brotherhood operatives, darkened their skin in photographs, and gratuitously mentioned their faith in speeches, Muslim candidates said.
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"I don't gratuitously put in humor or put jokes in," Leigh said of his trademark use of comedy in often very dark subject matter.
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We do not accept advertisements that are gratuitously offensive on racial, religious or ethnic grounds or that are considered to be in poor taste.
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There's no fun, there's no point, and there should be no joy in gratuitously attacking someone or picking an argument out of whole cloth.
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Why did these four announce themselves, gratuitously and contrary to custom, with voting rights and the Supreme Court itself squarely in the political spotlight?
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There is the kind of shock that puts you off forever: that is typically when I see an animal killed gratuitously in a narrative.
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As Balon Greyjoy goes to cross one of Pyke's gratuitously precarious bridges high above the waters, he's met by a hooded figure halting his progress.
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In a bathroom that replicates the gratuitously detailed toilets of AAA videogames, you exchange eye contact with another man to signal mutual interest and consent.
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These passages sometimes devolve into labored imitations of Céline — so willfully perverse and repetitious that they gradually lose their shock value, becoming gratuitously stomach-turning.
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In short, this is a time for responsible Western leaders to stick together, rather than to gratuitously erode what remains of the trust between them.
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I don't need to gratuitously slap modern writers, but I'd probably make this critique of three-quarters of the books I've speed-read this year.
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Mr. Bondy's "Tosca" was unsuccessful because it was messily conceptualized and gratuitously sordid, not because a gritty, dark take on this work is an impossibility.
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Now, when I say we need to be making our readers uncomfortable, I don't mean we should gratuitously insult them if we can avoid it.
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Some critics dismissed the picture as gratuitously ghoulish — and even silly — but it found its audience on the late-night drive-in and grindhouse circuit.
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Sessions' words about a "wind down" were rational and calm, indicating an approach that is not drastic or dramatic, not gratuitously painful or overly political.
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On Thursday morning, Americans woke up to the news that their president had gratuitously insulted the prime minister of Australia and maybe threatened to invade Mexico.
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Fan service is calling back to things to gratuitously press your joy-buzzers, like cute bloopy robots and spaceships named for mythical 1,000-year predatory birds.
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Other deities include a slinky love goddess (Élodie Yung) and the fey brainiac Thoth (Chadwick Boseman, who is an exception to the movie's gratuitously Eurocentric casting).
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There are so many volunteers that they have to stand shoulder to shoulder, somewhat gratuitously passing each bucket only a couple feet to the next person.
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Trump has shown a tendency to be extraordinarily antagonistic with some of the US's closest allies, like when he gratuitously insulted the prime minister of Australia.
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Some of the more recent offending legislation is less, or less gratuitously, illiberal; Kentucky's Republican lawmakers argued that their law was not intended to be anti-gay.
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He doubles down and what he was doing tonight not only was gratuitously taking a slap at Hillary Clinton as a woman but also stirring the pot.
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He did the post-showcase interview in a white Adidas shirt with a stars-and-stripes logo, because no one is more gratuitously American than Tim Tebow.
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"To sort of gratuitously attack Bernie Sanders, I think, is a very dangerous move for the Clinton campaign," Mr. Weaver said in a separate interview on MSNBC.
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It's a gratuitously monetized conspiracy theory video that delivers 13 minutes of apocalyptic babble and the idea that human beings are really just genetically engineered alien slaves.
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It's my life, so if I want to reveal things about my life, it's down to me, but you can't reveal things about other people's lives gratuitously.
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But instead he began to talk like Trump, gratuitously smearing a black congresswoman who was a friend of the Green Beret's bereaved family — with provably false charges.
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I was at times ferociously critical of President Barack Obama's handling of Central American refugees, but past administrations managed these difficult trade-offs without gratuitously embracing cruelty.
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Break-ins and car highjackings can quickly turn almost gratuitously violent, with victims beaten and raped if they do not quickly turn over valuables or open safes.
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When he abruptly and gratuitously broke into Spanish during his very first answer (can you say overeager?), Booker must not have been the only one who was astonished.
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There will be "in the treatment of this case no miscarriage of justice, no impunity (...) as the report of Human Rights Watch seems to claim gratuitously," he said.
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And gratuitously insulting Obama, who has healthy favorability ratings, goes against Trump's own best interest, which should be to try and discourage Obama supporters from voting for Clinton.
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Fearful of being shut down prematurely, the first 29 days were disciplined, full of calculated Sturm und Drang, mostly failing to cohere or rise above the gratuitously aberrant.
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In a political climate that gratuitously portrays anyone young and educated as an entitled "snowflake," the provocateur circuit—like Yiannopoulos's "Dangerous Faggot Tour"—is a thriving business model.
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Such ominous warnings about indiscriminate violence create formidable challenges for world leaders, who must strike a balance of raising awareness about the terrorist threat without gratuitously stoking fears.
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But, later, when Bill gratuitously describes an encounter with a black man at the bookie's who's maybe all right—for a black man—I just couldn't rationalize it.
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Comey also violated longstanding practice by "gratuitously" releasing damaging information about Clinton - even as he acknowledged the evidence against her was insufficient to warrant continued investigation, Rosenstein wrote.
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This could come across as gratuitously lurid, not least because the narrative is focused on and through Bakhita, whose psychological scarring is outpaced only by her physical scarring.
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There were concerns about potentially boosting the profile of a flat-Earther—or gratuitously ridiculing one—but we agreed that deft writing and editing could skirt those issues.
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In 1997, a federal judge in Manhattan banished Klayman after finding the attorney conducted "abusive and obnoxious" questioning, gratuitously invoked the judge's Chinese origins and pursued "preposterous" arguments.
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Whatever the secretary's personal views, and no matter how impossible her job, she was the face of some of the administration's most poorly conceived and gratuitously callous policies.
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As skimpy as Gadot's outfits may get, for example, Jenkins' camera never leers or lingers gratuitously — Diana is always framed as an agent of power, rather than its object.
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And in terms of how the story unfolds, there's violence involved, but that's because it makes sense for the setting, not just because we wanted to include it [gratuitously].
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In gratuitously acting to exclude willing citizens from military service, the president has declined to avail himself of the array of ingenuity and courage this nation has to offer.
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It also corresponds pretty closely to the Trump vote — and also to the states that have refused to expand Medicaid, gratuitously denying health care to millions of their citizens.
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Through the day, Dr. Mitchell portrayed himself as a sometime whistle-blower who tried to prevent full-time C.I.A. interrogators from doing gratuitously cruel things in the black sites.
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In another, "Toll Booth Willie," Sandler plays an affable Mass Pike worker who, for reasons that go totally unexplained, is gratuitously insulted by every single motorist passing through Worcester.
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So get on those new storylines, Stephanie Meyer, or we may never see another scene where Taylor Lautner gratuitously strips down to his underwear and transforms into a werewolf again.
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The artist, known from the 90s for his Pop-meets-Surrealist aesthetic, has carried on his signature appeal of gratuitously sweet and twinkly-eyed creations which seem born from sugar.
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Mabanckou heartbreakingly captures a child's struggle to figure out who he is and how he can survive in a world so gratuitously cruel and unjust it ultimately drives him insane.
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"He's doing things that take listeners behind the scenes in a way that isn't gratuitously promotional but informative," said Steve Jones, the vice president and general manager of ABC Radio.
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There is an especially overt sexuality in Shaw's representation of this violent act — the figure's dress is torn at the crotch — that seems a bit too gratuitously humiliating for women.
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Ruth Wilson's Fool wears a pair of prominently displayed American flag socks that she gratuitously points to during one speech, just to make sure we don't miss the blatantly obvious point.
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Put differently, powerful people like Hillary Clinton are not gratuitously opaque — they obfuscate both because it is in their nature and because they have found that it has worked for them.
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The team believes that The Daily News, known for its cheeky headlines and tone, is gratuitously negative about the team, which completed the season with the worst record in the league.
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Assuming, for the time being, that the Cohen payment to Ms. Clifford was entirely personal, made gratuitously in honor of his idol Mr. Trump, then the payment is probably perfectly legal.
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All of it was either made almost completely out of crickets and mealworms—beetle larvae—or, like the tacos and hot dog, had a healthy pile of crickets sprinkled gratuitously on top.
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Instead of killing themselves in gratuitously gory ways like all the "normal" characters, people with mental illnesses become literal agents of evil, obsessed with carrying out the monsters' mission to destroy humanity.
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The parents behind DaddyOFive, who came under fire for making what critics describe as gratuitously cruel prank videos on their children, have reportedly lost custody of two kids to their biological mother.
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Mr. Trump may need to be his own validator, projecting — through some combination of tone, positivity and not gratuitously insulting ethnic groups — an affect of "just Presidential enough" while still playing outsider.
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Trump and the GOP have taken aim at foreign-worker visas favored by Silicon Valley, and tech executives have publicly and privately condemned Trump's "gratuitously evil" executive orders on refugees and immigration.
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The NFL doesn't bother with that, and has instead just tilted the labor-management dynamic in favor of owners so gratuitously that it seems almost impossible to fuck things up too badly.
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It accepted that liberty of expression carried certain responsibilities, including a duty not to be "gratuitously offensive or profane" but it considered that the images in question did not fall into that category.
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When the president calls Kim Jong Un "Little Rocket Man," gratuitously insulting the leader of a nuclear-armed power, it isn't part of a sophisticated plan to increase the pressure on North Korea.
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But he then added, gratuitously, that New Jersey's position amounted to a "pure discrimination against religion," a clear invitation to other churches in New Jersey or elsewhere to serve up such a case.
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Over five years of Mr. Modi's rule, India has suffered variously from his raw wisdom, most gratuitously in November 2016, when his government abruptly withdrew nearly 90 percent of currency notes from circulation.
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Republican strategist Brad Blakeman argued that some of the media coverage of Tillerson's firing overlooks the distinction between Cabinet members who have different views from the president, and those who are gratuitously unsupportive.
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Then he started making gratuitously violent movies that for some reason all feature a rape scene, so I'm going to have us all watch this 82-year-old man singing "Dragula" instead of Zombie.
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If that sounds like high praise to you, too, then you will absolutely dig Keanu Reeves' gratuitously crunchy ode to choreographed ultraviolence via the bullet, the bare knuckle, and the everyday No. 2 pencil.
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I cannot imagine a plausible reason why Mueller went beyond his report and gratuitously suggested that President Trump might be guilty, except to help Democrats in Congress and to encourage impeachment talk and action.
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The band also rejects the notion that pop should have a politically correct agenda, and its music explores — sometimes gratuitously — the grim, often more perverse side of subjects like toxic masculinity and sexual desire.
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Even if liberals think their opponents are backward, they don't have to gratuitously drive people away, including voters who cast ballots once or even twice for Mr. Obama before supporting Mr. Trump in 2016.
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" Guitarist Luke Bentham says of it: "When some young kids from the West Coast pitched us this gratuitously violent video, they essentially told us they were gonna make it with or without our blessing.
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"Trump's base likes him when he's gratuitously ornery: Insulting war heroes, Gold Star families and the disabled have all been good for him, so what does he gain by strongly opining on Moore?" asks Dezenhall.
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If you want to know how rampant it is, just think about Chris Rock, hosting the 88th Annual Academy Awards, and gratuitously making fun of three Asian children that he has brought onto the stage.
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"Today the court ordered the Trump regime to end the cruel policy that gratuitously prolonged the separation of immigrant children from their families and upended their lives," NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman said in a statement.
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My hope is not to disclose because I can, though, or to do so reflexively or gratuitously, but to cherry-pick the things I think will spark a flicker of recognition and connection in a reader.
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It's a mode of experience in which power and the absence of purpose meet; and, in the reading, this gratuitously long novel about religion, manhood, sex, and violence becomes a test of its own unruly philosophy.
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In the hyper-competitive realm of Android smartphones, you either copy Apple gratuitously or you pursue the status of achieving a technical first, whether it's notchless or foldable displays, in-screen fingerprint scanners, or, now, 5G.
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After concluding that the lawsuit was barred by the Anti-Injunction Act, Kavanaugh went on to add (gratuitously, perhaps) that Congress might later go on to reconfigure ObamaCare and make the individual mandate a (constitutional) tax.
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Here, he walks out of the photo shoot and jumps directly into the fray of a violent riot before he and his girlfriend escape and then are shown, gratuitously, having sex in public against a statue.
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"It was unseemly, unhelpful, and divisive to gratuitously slap our major ally at the very moment when the threat from (North Korea) has reached a new height," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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We're told he has made NO move to change the private agreement that was always meant to remain private -- and he feels by gratuitously making it public the way Jolie did ... it's evidence she's a bad parent.
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Season 14 midseason premiere "1-800-799-7233," does have a gratuitously long shot of Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams) sitting in just a towel, letting viewers revel in his many-abbed glory for nearly two full minutes.
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Jericho's intensity from the build-up played well here, his indignation apparent from the outset as he shoved respected official Red Shoes, locked his son in a Lion Tamer, and used a four-letter word gratuitously in all directions.
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"Terrorism is obviously a charged analogy, but it's like terrorism in that you're trying to be gratuitously meaner and more sensational than the next person, like a terrorist who is trying to stand out and shock people," he said.
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PARIS — A Human Rights Watch report this summer accused the French police of "gratuitously and systematically" using pepper spray on migrants, including children, in the northern French city of Calais and routinely confiscating their sleeping bags and other belongings.
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The guilt-ridden father's obsessive quest, over many years, to find his son was balanced against Baptiste's methodical police work in a story that succeeded in both emotional and procedural terms, and declined to offer any gratuitously uplifting resolutions.
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Instead of just stepping into a booth and pulling a lever like normal voters, Iowans prefer an arcane, gratuitously quaint system in which likeminded partisans get together at a meetinghouse to chase each other around and fight about politics.
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Unless it was something where I just really felt that ... I get that kind of anger when I think about Donald Trump right now, but I would have never gone after somebody just gratuitously, or just because I didn't like them.
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More often than not, he can be caught pairing a standard-cut blazer with a pair of wide-leg, billowing trousers (and a killer heel) or he's gratuitously indecisive and throws a blazer over a maxi-dress in the best way.
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According to Sesame Street, the film's tagline could make people think that the Happytime puppets, which bleed stuffing and gratuitously jizz silly string in the trailer, are somehow related to Big Bird, Grover, and the rest of that wholesome gang.
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If so, Miami has.) And there is sex, deployed with a dismaying reductiveness; it seems in the first episode as if every character who is introduced has to be immediately shown in bed (or, in one case, in the shower), always gratuitously.
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My answer to Obama's speech to journalists is not that Democrats should support Sanders or Clinton, but that it is profoundly unwise and destructive to Democrats for the president to gratuitously criticize Sanders and insult those who put their faith in him.
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Their signature attention-grabbing mechanisms are a primary source of their power (or at least, their appeal), and that's fine—especially if, in the case of gratuitously costumed bands like Ghoul, Midnight, and Savage Master, their songwriting genuinely backs up the bloodstained pageantry.
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Published under the title "Safe-Sex Lies:" the "final edit was abrupt, not all that coherent, gratuitously provocative, and suggested that I might have had unprotected sex with upward of five hundred people," as Daum would write in the Believer years later.
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"While racist individuals and groups continue to embrace the Confederate battle flag, it has never been more clear that this anachronistic symbol of hatred, slavery, and insurrection should not be promoted or gratuitously displayed on federal property," Huffman said in a statement on Tuesday.
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In addition to gratuitously playacting one of the most vile, grotesque and evil acts of violence one could -- against any human, let alone the President -- Griffin has also managed to weaken good arguments against Trump's intolerance and the intolerance of some of his supporters.
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Remember when four terribly dressed men who have looked middle-aged for three decades released a song about a man with an ego so fragile he'd sooner list the many fictional and gratuitously violent deaths of his ex than just admit she dumped him?
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" Augustine confesses to God that he had been "gratuitously evil, having no temptation to ill, but the ill itself": "It was foul, and I loved it; I loved to perish, I loved mine own fault, not that for which I was faulty, but my fault itself.
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" But one thing it has done is take the sharp edges off the ability of the league and the players to gratuitously comment on political and social issues du jour, knowing the rejoinder may be "why aren't you speaking out about Uighur slaves in cotton fields?
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Everything about the movie, including and especially the violence, is gratuitously over-the-top; it often feels like a satire of violent over-the-topness, an addled and morally empty state of being toward which Natural Born Killers seemed to suggest the American psyche was increasingly inclined.
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A long series of scenes depicting what might really have taken place between Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas — from Carlyle's virulent anti-Anita point of view — is more preposterous than funny, not to mention gratuitously long, especially when it's followed by a (staged) insurrection in the audience.
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Notably, when pressed, FBI Director James Comey refused to confirm or promise an investigation of the damaging leaks coming out of his own bureau, which he admits are punishable crimes, while gratuitously announcing the existence of an ongoing investigation of collusion between Trump associates and Russian officials.
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I could have done without many of the metaphors for the Schrödinger girls — "each in her own perfect, iridescent-transparent bubble," each "a refracted ray of light," each one of "the many phases of the moon" — their differences gratuitously reiterated when I already knew them well.
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" Greta Van Susteren, a Fox News host, said this week the Obama administration was in effect the offender, not conservatives, arguing the Obama administration, in replacing Jackson with Tubman instead of leaving his face in place and putting her on another bill, was "gratuitously stirring up the nation.
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We have to do things that a lot of other countries don't really have to do, and some of those things may be inconsistent with those treaties, but we've always said look, you know us, we will not gratuitously abuse this flexibility that we're asking for in this treaty.
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"We have a special obligation to refugees who are children and to take somebody who is a child, to gratuitously put them in detention in isolation, in circumstances that will cause significant distress and trauma, seems antithetical to the principles we claim to be guided by," Macklin said.
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This isn't even the most upsetting vignette in the game, and it's obvious why MachineGames chose to include them: they establish villains that aren't just hateful, but so gratuitously evil that they tip the larger-than-life moral scale of a Wolfenstein game, and make their inevitable gruesome executions feel justified.
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"We're shooting for a pastry kitchen that doesn't gratuitously use any sugar because there is so much natural sweetness in the fruits and vegetables we use," said Dan Barber, the Blue Hill chef and co-owner who works with the pastry chef Joel De La Cruz to create veggie-focused desserts.
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It's a guy who happens to be a stand-up comic blathering with his friend, Matt McCusker, who also happens to be a stand-up comic, as they sit in front of microphones gratuitously spewing epithets and making lazy "jokes" about other races, sexual orientations and gender without any real context or substance.
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The version opening here, said to have been updated and re-edited, begins with remarks from one of the directors, François Margolin, who gratuitously invokes relatives killed in the Holocaust as a reason for making the movie, which features interviews from over several years with militants and extremists in Mali, Tunisia and Mauritania.
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It has unilaterally disarmed itself by withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and gratuitously hurt allies such as the EU, Japan and Canada by raising tariffs on their goods — the tariffs on Canada were just lifted — and hurling personal insults, making it harder to form a united front on these China trade issues.
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In that sense, The Punisher feels more in line with and supplemental to a couple of its Netflix cousins — namely Jessica Jones, which waded into darker topics of sex and abuse, and Luke Cage, which became an examination of the fragility of black life in America — than the gratuitously violent show it's been marketed as.
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Deep-sea explorers inadvertently provide the beast a portal into our oceans from the previously unexplored depths where it had presumably been lurking all these years, and must call upon a jaded dive rescuer played by Jason Statham, who has the opportunity to do all kinds of Statham-y-like things, including gratuitously remove his shirt.
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Republicans may go further in ousting the group from its semiofficial gatekeeping role after it rated L. Steven Grasz, Mr. Trump's nominee for the appeals court in St. Louis, as "not qualified" to be a judge, portraying him as "gratuitously rude" and unlikely "to separate his role as an advocate from that of a judge" on matters like abortion.
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That adviser could have argued that for an administration looking to manage great-power competition, it is patently illogical to elevate a regional spoiler to great-power status, antagonistically martyr one of its leaders, gratuitously invigorate nonstate militants, and set the United States on a path toward war in a region it had hoped to calm.
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In a statement released to the press shortly after our settlement, the agency's acting director of enforcement characterized the financial payment to which Omega and I had agreed as having been levied for our "misconduct", gratuitously omitting the word "alleged" even though, since the case was settled, the complaint's allegations never had to be, and were never, proven in court.
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President Donald Trump, Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar have set the stage for the dehumanization of migrants seeking refuge in the US. They have been painfully explicit about doing whatever it takes to deter migrants from approaching the US, including the creation of gratuitously harsh conditions for families and children who cross the border.
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Making a welcome return to the brand he founded in 1987 and left in 2005 — having lost the right to his name — Mr. Abboud presented a collection of tailored suits so gratuitously detailed (buttons marched up the sleeve of one velvet jacket from cuff almost to shoulder) and seemingly overwrought that even the efforts of the gifted stylist Bill Mullen couldn't salvage the situation.
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" In Jeune Afrique , François Soudan accused her of choosing themes that were gratuitously offensive to ordinary Moroccans in an effort to ingratiate herself with a French élite: "To be bankable in the media right now on the Left Bank of the Seine, the good Arab is obliged to be secular, Islamophobic, preferably libertine, and, if possible, under threat (for the preceding) in his country of origin.
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The media-operative class believes: You know, on balance, it might not be a great idea to promiscuously shred norms about how presidents are supposed to comport themselves, to gratuitously insult people who don't support you and even some who do, to lurch daily from outrage to uproar to scandal, all culminating in a likely impeachment trial in the winter before your reelection campaign.
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First came news that FBI director Chris Wray threatened to resign if pressured to fire deputy director McCabe, a longtime Twitter target of Trump, and then the bombshell that McCabe—a longtime veteran of the FBI and a career nonpartisan law-enforcement agent—was asked directly by President Trump who he voted for (McCabe's answer: He didn't vote), and that Trump, separately, also berated McCabe in a telephone call and gratuitously insulted his wife.
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Trump took a moment to pat himself on the back for predicting the attack — "I said this was going to happen" — but for the most part, his statement focuses on bashing Muslims: identifying the suspect in the Orlando shooting, Omar Mateen, as the "son of an immigrant from Afghanistan"; characterizing Mateen's father, Seddique Mateen, as a serious political figure (which seems to be something of a stretch); and gratuitously citing a survey about Afghan support for Sharia law.
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"I will go to my grave not understanding how some of my colleagues could simply turn the other way and overlook the president's behavior and his misdeeds, who would overlook his unrelenting attack, frankly, on the free press, overlook his kind of vicious character assassinations, sometimes gratuitously, as in the instance of [former U.S.] Ambassador [to Ukraine Marie] Yovanovitch, and just, frankly, ignore the fact that he has such, to put it charitably, a very distant relationship with the truth," Heck added.
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He was wearing shorts and flip-flops; he has a soft handshake and an easy, teasing manner that he knows will likely confound people who expect the sustained contentiousness that he employs online and on TV. (On cable news shows, Greenwald draws his lower lip over his bottom teeth, blinks slowly, and seems able to state his position on the Espionage Act of 1917 while inhaling.) Greenwald, though untroubled about being thought relentless, told me that he was "actually trying to become less acerbic, less gratuitously combative" in public debates.
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But in the end, these rejected laughingstocks have only papered over a whole gallery of cabinet grotesques: from Scott Pruitt to Steve Mnuchin; Ben Carson to Betsy DeVos; and other "not qualified" jurists such as Leonard Steven Grasz, a believer in ignoring high-court rulings for abortion rights, former board member of a Nebraska organization that supports "conversion therapy" for gay kids (views Grasz says he has "never repudiated"), and a justice described as vengeful and "gratuitously rude" by former colleagues, who is now filling a lifetime seat on the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
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