Instead, the Republican Party is well on its way to nominating a conventional, even relatively moderate, Republican who is committed to making the wealthy wealthier, but is not given to radical views on social issues or gratuitous anger towards poor or non-white people.
It says Mr. McCain's criticisms of Mr. Bush on this issue have been gratuitous and unwarranted, and it portrays Mr. Bush as someone eager to usher in sensible reforms.
In a letter to Crown, Ms. Somers's publisher, the doctors wrote, "Wiley dispenses gratuitous advice on significant medical issues including the use of bioidentical hormone therapies, areas that are legally and ethically the domain of licensed medical practitioners".
Her comments were not in defence of human rights, but a gratuitous intervention in a difficult political issue".
In the New York Post, Kyle Smith takes issue with "R.I.P.D.'s" obvious and gratuitous cribbing from certain genre forerunners.
Murray issued a statement calling for for an end to "the vicious and gratuitous blood lust" among those vying to control Rangers' destiny.
"We were extremely disappointed to find our film – which discusses these issues maturely and carefully – thrown into the same category as films which display gratuitous sex and violence," he wrote.
Prior to the Charlie Hebdo murders many publications, New York Times included, practiced thoughtful journalism, restraining from gratuitous and outrageous expression while covering and offering opinions on a wide range of controversial issues.
At the conservative Powerline blog, John Hinderaker took issue with Obama's statement that "the time for bickering is over," calling it a "gratuitous insult" and writing: "Debating public policy issues is not 'bickering'".
I have no issues doing it for a part if it makes sense, if it's not gratuitous and I think it's adding to the story.
The issue I have with so many movies today is that there is an incredible amount of gratuitous violence, gore, horrendous behavior, and just plain old nasty stuff.
