"I thought to put that word on the cover — and have it hit the stands the day he announced for President — was a cruel, gratuitous thing to do," she says, sounding like any defensive reporter who blames an editor.
He said: "Clearly, the way in which the Conservative party decided to conduct that campaign - in a way which was so unnecessarily personal - they didn't need to do that.... "It was, I thought, a totally gratuitous thing.
"YouTube's Community Guidelines prohibit among other things, gratuitous violence, nudity, dangerous and illegal activities, and hate speech," a YouTube spokesperson told Motherboard in an email.
When outrageous opinions were confined to newspaper print there was something quasi-fictional about the enterprise – the writer with their disorienting polemic was like a gratuitous cartoon character, vocalising things none of us would dare say in real life because they didn't quite exist in real life.
The most important thing about the gratuitous umlaut is it does nothing so confusing as affect the pronunciation of the word.
Contributing to this problem was Cortese's inability to "pull it off", making the "whole thing [feel] gratuitous and clumsy".
There was a duty to survive, to keep things running, to avoid gratuitous provocation that might make a bad case worse.
Unlike most of the amateur clips of people getting hit with stun guns and Tasers -- which are, by and large, gratuitous -- we learned a few things from this video. .
If you can have a woman commit to you without having to reciprocate the whole marriage thing seems a bit gratuitous.
Since the Super Bowl incident, CBS' standards and practices department "is being maybe a little bit tougher, especially on things that we feel are gratuitous," the co-COO said.
Amy Chua has been accused of many things – a cruel approach to parenting, gratuitous use of cultural stereotypes, a talent for sensationalism – but cowardice isn't one of them.
