From the opening track, 'Olivia', Stenson's poise and unhurried grace conceal a focus that avoids anything gratuitous or superficial.
"We're very conscious of not making anything gratuitous or exploitive while being faithful to the stories of the book and the fans of the book," he said.
"But what it always comes back to - and why I think those conversations are so valuable -- is that we get to the truth of the scene and there's never anything gratuitous on this show".
These jarring images, like everything else in the biographical montage created by a filmmaker renowned for his bold visual flash, are anything but gratuitous.
So give credit to the creators of "The Columnist," David Auburn's scrupulously assembled historical drama, for delivering a truly troubling glimpse of exposed flesh in the play's opening minutes, a glimpse — it turns out — that is anything but gratuitous.
However, the biggest single influence is Quentin Tarantino, with a Kill Bill-inspired plot and a gritty, irreverent style straight out of Grindhouse.The title refers to Wetworks, industry slang for assassinations, rather than anything more gratuitous, although your heroine, Rubi, has clearly been designed with the target adolescent male audience in mind.
It would be hard to believe that Fitzgerald ever considered Gerald Murphy to be self-indulgent in this sense, or that he attributed the catastrophe that overtook the Murphys in 1929 to anything but a gratuitous slap of fate.
I would have given anything for release from the gratuitous torture porn of Wolf Creek.
The events leading up to congress in a novel are literary foreplay; the reader should trust implicitly that it won't be gratuitous or designed to do anything other than enhance the narrative.
"Nothing about nanotechnology is in relation to anything except Western, expensive foods that are slightly gratuitous and not particularly necessary," she said, before adding that it is not currently helping to feed the world.
In those cases, such as the Socrates one, where we cannot find out whether the truth-condition is satisfied or not, it is simply gratuitous to believe that there is anything we can think or say or do which could provide evidence that the link has been set up in the first place.
