His worst pieces are about the artist himself, and teem with gratuitous bright ideas.
While Stern's vocabulary got him bounced him from carriers like Clear Channel Communications stations, he underscored that his show was about ideas, not gratuitous language and that cursing would occur naturally in speech.
First, the idea that religion is a gratuitous cause of violence, whose elimination would promote peace.
Presenting Mr. Lieberson in context with fellow composers was a promising idea, but there was something gratuitous about repeating works that had just been heard and calling the program a tribute.
Darwin was himself a lover of literature (Dickens especially) and labored intensely over the prose of "Origin," especially the metaphors, which he felt were not just gratuitous flourishes, but the most capacious vehicles for his scientific ideas.
"Sharing a dressing room with Frank Sidebottom …" Aware that the idea of releasing a Cash tribute in 1988 seemed "a bit gratuitous", it was decided to make the album a benefit for the Terence Higgins Trust.
"And I've always been sort of staunchly feminist about it, I've never relished the idea of doing it, and never if it was inappropriate or gratuitous in any way.
The designer, Danny Ledonne, had high ideas about it: he chose low-fi effects to avoid gratuitous gore and included actual dialogue from the teenagers to give insight into their troubled minds.
Caillois also introduces the idea that games range along a continuum between two modes: ludus, "the taste for gratuitous difficulty," and paidia, "the power of improvisation and joy".
The more a diesel arriviste revels in the SD's low-rev torque, the more the idea of revving an engine to its limits begins to feel quaint and somewhat gratuitous.
Many may disagree with the idea of staging such an atrocity so soon after the event, but this production does not seem at all gratuitous.
