The lawsuit also painted the data warehouses as gratuitous middlemen, noting that CME already releases some data directly to the trading commission.
An attorney acting for Kelly, Michael Critchley, aptly described it as venomous, gratuitous, and sexist, noting, "Ms. Kelly's evidence could be critical to verifying either of the two competing versions of events.
Note that gratuitous "lamely".
The note feels gratuitous, partly because Brown's relationship to the swells is plainly vexed, and partly because the odd thing isn't her diary's glamour but its aperture.
So it's important to note that that gratuitous punch, and much of the best dialogue about feelings of power and submission, come directly from Mr. McEwan's novel.
He then takes a few gratuitous swipes at poor Judy, noting her "role in the case served no one very well.
But it is also important to note differences between a gratuitous, proactive invasion and a response to a direct threat to the citizens of Benghazi, triggered by the spontaneous uprising of the Libyan people.
What they said was good, too - not a tasteless note, not a word of gratuitous anti-Americanism.
In a scathing review of "Irréversible" in Le Monde, Samuel Blumenfeld compared Mr. Noé to a bad philosophy student whose research consists of barroom conversations, and noted that the film's gratuitous violence is proportionate to its intellectual laziness.
They're often kind of awful -- hence the title -- but as Falk noted, their more obnoxious moments aren't gratuitous; each one must serve a purpose.
