Though the videos were broadcast over and over for gratuitous titillation long after they ceased to qualify as fresh news, the voyeuristic overkill aroused no more public protest than the prospect of "Big Brother".
The first scene begins with her answering questions from a reporter; he quickly disappears and she starts talking directly to us, explaining how odd she feels to be chatting over such gratuitous content.
At the conservative Powerline blog, John Hinderaker took issue with Obama's statement that "the time for bickering is over," calling it a "gratuitous insult" and writing: "Debating public policy issues is not 'bickering'".
May sounded confident, but her pre-scripted anti-Corbyn jibes (in response to questions two and three) came over as unprovoked, gratuitous and consequently rather cheap.
At times "A Dangerous Business" seems a little self-congratulatory in uncovering corporate malfeasance and cornering government officials like Mr. Vacco -- scenes, for instance, of the three reporters toiling over documents is gratuitous and distracting.
"It is difficult to exaggerate the aggravation at the White House over Alan Greenspan's gratuitous shot at President Bush's tax cuts," Novak writes.
Not only were our personal twitter feeds filled with vulgar insults and allegations of having used sexual favors to get to positions of authority, not only were there comments on our bodies and physical appearances, but I personally endured the streets of my hometown being plastered with posters of my face scrawled over with death threats and gratuitous insults.
So they have this constant, gratuitous head contact over and over.
You used deliberate and gratuitous violence over what was needed to carry out the robbery".
From the meme-referencing voice over opening, to the gratuitous slow-motion glory shots, to the actually enjoyable gags, to the ample Jeff Goldblum, this looks like a very different Thor movie.
