The liberal use of profanity and sexual innuendo actually succeeds in achieving gratuitousness.
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" The fictional journal, Kirkus continued, was rife with "literary pork-barreling" and "the utter incompetence and gratuitousness that goes under the term 'editorial judgment.
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Like the best action movies, it's aware of its own implausible gratuitousness while telling a story full of characters for whom it is real and tragic.
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You could ask him about this, or you could ask him about the weird "problem children" formulation, the strange and shifting standards, the moralizing and the gratuitousness.
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But the apparent inexplicability of those murders, the gratuitousness of those murders, the — in essence — murdering for the joy of murdering takes that to another level of evil.
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A balance between pegging enemies as goddamn good-for-nothin' sucka-ass chumps, while addressing the black experience around race and intra-community strife with a gratuitousness that felt honest.
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"The cynicism of Collins' conduct — his decision to repeatedly violate federal law while continuing to accept the trust of the public to draft it — is exacerbated by its total gratuitousness," they continued.
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Without spectacle and without gratuitousness, the screen gives the pervasive violence of the novels a substance and permanence that's more physical than what your reading imagination can produce, and thus much more urgent.
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In places, Call Me is unabashedly erotic, and yet Guadagnino nimbly navigates that tricky terrain without ever venturing into gratuitousness — simply treating Elio and Oliver's relationship as it deserves to be treated, just like any other cinematic love affair.
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The problem is partly structural: Eyre and Munro have leaned heavily on Lucy's childhood, all but erasing the novel's thread involving literary mentorship, and certain details, such as Lucy's enduring preoccupation with the Nazis (her father, stationed in Germany, killed two local boys at point-blank range; her husband's German father was a prisoner of war; and, with almost apologetic gratuitousness, Lucy notes that her angelic doctor is Jewish), fail to cohere.
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Property, Community, are two ideas correlative to the ideas of onerosity and gratuitousness, on which they are founded.
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The third chapter calls for an "economy of gratuitousness and fraternity", discussing how giving and receiving gift reflects God's nature and how it helps builds communities. Benedict states civil society is the most natural setting for gratuitousness, but that gratuity is also needed in the operations of the State and the Market. With reference to the financial crisis of 2007–2008, Benedict argues against a market economy where economic agents act purely out of self-interest — he says that commercial logic alone cannot solve all of society's problems. The Pope states there is both a moral and economic case to conclude that "in commercial relationships the principles of gratuitousness and the logic of gift as an expression of gratuitousness can and must find their place within normal economic activity".
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In the global era, economic activity cannot prescind from gratuitousness, which fosters and disseminates solidarity and responsibility for justice and the common good among the different economic players.
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BBC representatives downplayed the gratuitousness of the story, comparing it to Moll Flanders.Conlan, Tara (22 August 2002). "BBC Faces Obscenity Row Over 'Shocking' New Lesbian Drama", The Daily Mail (London), p. 40. Waters especially appreciated the way Davies interpreted Kitty's ambivalence about being in love with Nan.
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Both Waters and Davies were concerned about the use of dildos in scenes with Diana, but the BBC allowed it. When news releases told of the BBC featuring swearing and sex toys, the Daily Mail reported that viewers began to protest. BBC representatives downplayed the gratuitousness of the story, comparing it to Moll Flanders.Conlan, Tara (22 August 2002).
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Book Becomes a Movie. His best-known work, The Cincinnati Kid, published in 1964 in hardcover and later made into a motion picture with Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann Margaret and Tuesday Weld, was highly praised in The Times. Mr. Jessup has brilliantly enlarged the microcosm of the gambling table, to make it a genuine setting for a novel, said the reviewer. Within its circle, men act out, again and again, their commitment against the gratuitousness and terror of fate.
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As a complement to his stated preference for lyricism in prose, Perpessicius also believed that the modern novel and novella were interfering with each other to the point where distinction became "absolute gratuitousness" (a vision discussed in his Mențiuni critice).Cernat, p.321 This tendency toward aesthetic relativism owed inspiration to the theories of French Symbolist Remy de Gourmont, and brought Perpessicius into conflict with Lovinescu, whose more rigid version of Impressionism was based on the views of Émile Faguet.Cernat, p.
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The episode received positive reviews. It scored 84% on Rotten Tomatoes from 50 reviews with a average rating of 7.59 out of 10 and the consensus reading: "'The Gift' is a jam-packed installment that delivers long-awaited plot turns in a satisfying manner, even though it continues a disturbing theme from the previous episode." Erik Kain of Forbes called this a "terrific, exciting, tense episode," though, like Myles McNutt of The A.V. Club, he questioned both the "anemic" Dorne storyline and the gratuitousness of Tyene exposing her breasts in the prison scene.
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The first series was generally well received by the critics, with some high praise for its striking visuals, but also some expressions of concern about its violence. Aidan Smith of The Scotsman noted both its "astonishing visuals" as well as its "astonishing violence", while Tom Sutcliffe of The Independent thought it a dystopian fantasy "delivered with great visual style" but was not convinced that its violence is necessary. Mark Monahan of The Daily Telegraph described it as "a dark, tantalisingly mysterious overture", while Sam Wollaston of The Guardian called it "a work of brilliant imagination", "a 21st-century nightmare" that "looks beautiful", but also wondered about the gratuitousness of its violence.
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The Three Way War received a 3 star rating, stating that there was "enough good" but overall it was "above-average." The Monster's Ball match was given 3 1/4 stars in the review and called "an exciting match" with Keller explaining that there were "four stars worth of action, but it crossed into gratuitousness" and also criticized some awkward moments and the fire's danger. The X Division Championship contest got 2 1/4 stars with Keller commenting that it "started okay" with the middle being a "little too slow" and that the "build to the finish was solid" but the "actual pin was sloppy". James Caldwell, also of the Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter, posted a review of the show rating the matches on the same scale as Keller.
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The protagonist, a treacherous Moldavian boyar by the name of Moţoc, uses a discourse rich in political imagery, and towards the end of the play reveals himself as an alter ego of communist theorist Karl Marx. Nelega is critical of the text, arguing that it "does not surpass the gratuitousness of petty pokes" and is "more burlesque than absurd", concluding: "I fear that Gârbea did not know how to end his play and quickly fabricated, deus ex machina, the similitude of a profound sense where there was nothing." The three-character comedy and satire Cafeaua domnului Ministru, seen by poet and literary chronicler Emil Mladin as one "of morals", Emil Mladin, "Laborator. Departe de lumea dezlănţuită", in Revista Drama , Nr. 1-2/2007 turns its attention to Romania's political scene, showing the stormy encounter between a matron, a female secretary and a politician.
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It notes that "when the first direct evidence of infant Baptism appears in the second century, it is never presented as an innovation", that 2nd-century Irenaeus treated baptism of infants as a matter of course, and that, "at a Synod of African Bishops, St. Cyprian stated that 'God's mercy and grace should not be refused to anyone born', and the Synod, recalling that 'all human beings' are 'equal', whatever be 'their size or age', declared it lawful to baptize children 'by the second or third day after their birth'". In the 17th and 18th centuries, many infants were baptised on the day of their birth as in the cases of Francoise-Athenais, Marquise de Montespan, Jeanne Du Barry and Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo. Infant baptism is seen as showing very clearly that salvation is an unmerited favour from God, not the fruit of human effort."The sheer gratuitousness of the grace of salvation is particularly manifest in infant Baptism" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1250).
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