Generous with jolts but devoid of gratuitous bloodshed, these are the rare horror movies that seem more interested in how people live than how they die.
Instead, they tried to cover up their failure to do so by baffling their customers with gratuitous complexity.
Computer conferences now buzz with discussion of what Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the M.I.T. Media Laboratory, has called the "gratuitous complexity" of computers.
For the time being, then, our best bet is to do all we can to reduce the gratuitous complexity of our progressive income tax.
Enter 2016's Doom, a game devoid of moral complexity.
Distinct, but devoid of much complexity (until now!), whiteness in America was originally defined only in opposition to — and implicitly and explicitly valued over — being brown or black.
She argues that the commonsense notion of pain conceives of pains as simple subjective sensations devoid of any complexity.
We reduce them to simply "deniers" -- ignorant hacks devoid of emotional complexity, values and reasoning.
Occasionally, nature startles us with baroque and apparently gratuitous complexity.
We try, but it's hard, with English at our disposal, to summon the will power to dial back to a frequency devoid of complexity, color, and jokes.
And some have a hard time with the fine-grind settings required for espresso: They grind unevenly, leading to under-extracted shots, at once thin and devoid of complexity.
