His gratuitous street work of the 30s claims the highest artistic ground, justly.
12.46pm BST It seems gratuitous to work through the wrong in this song point by point.
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As most readers of this essay surely know from experience, anything that undermines that motivation pressure to produce, meddling by management, fear of sanctions, anxiety, resentment, even gratuitous performance bonuses worsens work performance.
Presenting Mr. Lieberson in context with fellow composers was a promising idea, but there was something gratuitous about repeating works that had just been heard and calling the program a tribute.
For instance, a gratuitous reference to my work, along with Geoffrey Hill's, as "serious-minded to the point of pain and obscure of purpose" by Roger Lewis in the Times ("Say no to pompous professors") shows Lewis has conflated a superficial impression of Hill with a blurred and misleading one of me.
At its best the Off-Off Broadway movement generated great excitement and vitality, but at its worst its works displayed gratuitous violence and self-indulgence and alienated the audience it set out to engage.
Gratuitous fight scenes are worked into the story, it seems, so that the older boys in the troupe can act out machismo fantasies and work in some of their skills, while death scenes all involve lolling tongues and flailing, gangly limbs that make the whole thing a farce rather than a dire warning. .
The code continues to influence contemporary policies, such as food-for-work programs and what the code called "gratuitous relief" for those unable to work.
I was always against cameras doing the work - those gratuitous movements that accentuate a dramatic moment - and Phil was with me on that.
Still, in an interview at the Tokyo television studio where he is host of several regularly broadcast variety shows, he insisted that the death and violence running through his work were never gratuitous.
