Many of those were gratuitous attempts to intimidate that were unanswered.
Jennings is not an elegant stylist, and if you didn't like "Aztec" you will probably dislike "Spangle" for the same reasons; it's heavy-handed, the eroticism is clumsy and often embarrassing, the dialogue is unconvincing, the violence is gratuitous, and the attempts at narrative excitement tend to be of the old "suddenly a shot rang out" variety.
Gratuitous cowardly attack on Speaker".
Beaumont and Davies, our manager in South Africa this summer, were at Rugby School this week when Beaumont, once England's captain and now one of the game's lawmakers, expressed alarm at the number of gratuitous hits delivered by players attempting to clear out rucks.
No gratuitous efforts to shock, no attempts to graft the heavy messages of drama into a sitcom; just good-natured fun that nicely mixes satire on real life (the wrestling husband's stage persona is the Crybaby) with absurdity (as in a scene in which dancers audition for a starring role by singing notices off the dressing-room bulletin board).
Theis rejected this attempt, calling it a "gratuitous and unsolicited act".
In its response to the Government Accountability Project's FOIA request, ICE made no attempt to clarify the gratuitous redactions in both the photos and the emails.
This decision was not a gratuitous rebuff to these magistrates but yet another attempt to gain additional revenue, this time by offering a renewal of the paulette in lieu of four years' salary.
Our job as journalists is to balance the two, so that our coverage of war, disaster and violence is neither an over-sanitised shield protecting viewers from horrible realities, nor a lurid attempt to hook their attention with gratuitous images.
"His attempt last year to blackmail the union into major pay and other concessions led to gratuitous layoffs".
The allegations against the University of Notre Dame in the complaint are unfounded, as are gratuitous and unfounded references to 'student athletes' — an allegation that is nothing more than a cynical attempt to attract publicity.
