Transcription cannot do justice to his idiosyncratic pronunciation of a word like "gratuitous," or "ethical," or "Xbox".
What they said was good, too - not a tasteless note, not a word of gratuitous anti-Americanism.
From the first bars of opener 'Closer', with its gently weeping guitars, reverberating drums and gratuitous use of the word 'spooky', you can hear the space that Nashville producers Angelo Petraglia and Jacquire King have opened up in the Followills' sound.
After throwing a variety of childish temper tantrums, running afoul of the law, and exposing his shocking lack of basketball and graffiti skills, Justin Bieber's found a way to top it all and further assert himself as perhaps our most embarrassing celebrity with not one but two videos surfacing online that contain Bieber's gratuitous use of the word "nigger".
The crass, gratuitous nature of the words jump out.
Why can't Hollywood figure out that special effects, blood and gore, gratuitous sex and dirty words will never make a good movie?
Its programme-making heritage - its conviction, its commitment to talent and to giving that talent the time to get things right, its commitment to gratuitous quality, in other words quality over and above what you would need to provide to make a programme fit for commercial purpose - this heritage is what the on-demand world is crying out for.
Not because the use of the N-word was gratuitous, but because the explicit, ongoing violence directed at African-Americans -- and only African-Americans -- was.
I was hopeful that despite Spike Lee, and others', previous high profile critique of the filmmaker's use of the "N-word" as gratuitous and racially insensitive, that I would, at the end of the day, simply be able to enjoy a well-done film.
