Sentence examples for gratuitous manner from inspiring English sources
Sexual content is prominent in the stories, though not in the gratuitous manner of, which celebrated a hedonism that was in contrast to the conservative lifestyle of the middle-aged businessman Eisner was.
The prosecutor's complaint recalls Al Pacino's classic but flawed 1980 film Cruising in its caricatures of gay sex acts, defining "fisting," for example, in a gratuitous manner that implied that some people don't — or shouldn't — enjoy the experience.
Why abridge the original in this gratuitous and unhelpful manner?
The reader is shown the dead and those soon to die, but never in a manner that is gratuitous or sensationalist.Many of those who died might have survived but for the lack of basic care.
It's not gratuitous in any way.
By contrast and to Metternich's great pleasure, Alexander displayed bad manners and a penchant for gratuitous insults.
The continuum from the screen to the premises of the screening was gratuitous even if the scenes were selected and edited with all manner of seductions in mind.
"Obviously no-one likes gratuitous sex or gratuitous misogyny the same way people shouldn't like gratuitous violence.
It is neither gratuitous nor casual; Gibson is not trying out an idea or testing a visual manner, and the digital cameras used throughout by the director of photography, Dean Semler, yield both a lustre and a pantherish mobility that reach to the guts of the story.
Death has always lurked in some of the most moving and beautiful children's stories, but for the younger reader, it's usually approached in a palatable manner: good overcoming evil in the traditions of fairytales or in some oblique manner that isn't gratuitous.
