Splicing the scenes of the attack with Dame Nellie singing O mio babbino caro upstairs did not lessen, or beautify, the effect, but brought home the trauma without making it gratuitous.
How did she deal with the sex? "The thing that was most difficult was how and where to pepper the sex, and to not make it feel like it was gratuitous.
Scott Green of Ain't It Cool News praised "Nagai's tasteless sense of strangeness" as the series' "highpoint", saying its "bright American style superhero design, with kaleidoscopic oddity, humorously gratuitous nudity and violence" make it "amusing nonsense".
Keir Starmer QC, the director of public prosecutions, can make it clear that judges should step in early if gratuitous insinuations are being made that serve to muddy rather than clear the waters.
If it's gratuitous for gratuitous sake, then I will discuss with a director on how to make it more subtle.
Does the addition of gratuitous violence and advances in filmmaking and storytelling make it better?
Warren's selection has nothing to do with policy, and that just makes it a more gratuitous insult.
And this same imprecision meant that the soundtrack could not flow seamlessly with the action onstage, making it feel more gratuitous and misplaced.
The second of his two waltz encores, Op 34 No 1, brought a lightness and a burst of speed that made it the first moment of gratuitous showing off from Andsnes all night.
The commission overruled its own Enforcement Bureau, which had denied the complaints on the basis of the existing policy, and found that the fleeting expletive fell within the definition of indecency, because it "invariably invokes a coarse sexual image" that made its broadcast "shocking and gratuitous".
