| What is behind the riot of words, the exaggeration of images, their total gratuitousness? |
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| But he rejects any charge of gratuitousness, citing a more political, and more personal, reason for their inclusion. |
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| What's remarkable about his filmmaking is the ability to present scenes of shocking defilement without a hint of prurience or gratuitousness. |
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| Violence is released in quick, concentrated bursts that convey cruelty without gratuitousness. |
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| Consequently, while there are torture scenes in the book, with enough detail to make a weak-stomached reader wince, they avoid gratuitousness. |
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| In the light of the Spirit the gifts are an expression of His infinite gratuitousness. |
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| The tradeoff between openness and security is never easy to figure out, but what struck me about my friend's ordeal was its sheer gratuitousness. |
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| But I discovered that I was one of the many readers who found, in the gratuitousness, something recognizable and true. |
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| More than the level of crime, it is the sheer gratuitousness of the violence that is shocking. |
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| What better time is there than Lent for offering this testimony of gratuitousness which the world so badly needs? |
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| This excess of gratuitousness and love makes their donation assessable over and above any type of usefulness. |
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| No one experienced the gratuitousness of Christ's choice as vividly as he did. |
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| The authoritarianism and gratuitousness of this act provoked national indignation and set off the transition to democracy. |
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| Gift and gratuitousness come up about three dozen times, and graciousness is Rosanna's word. |
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| But when virtuosity is not elevated by the power of a dramatic situation, the outcome, brilliant though it may be, suffers from dryness, a victim of its gratuitousness. |
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| There is a certain gratuitousness in the search for truth. |
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| The pleasure and the gratuitousness of the path towards the truth make whoever is studying gradually become a humble, patient and devote servant of life. |
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| He saw civil society as the most natural setting for an economy of gratuitousness and fraternity, but did not mean to deny it a place in the other two settings. |
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| In the global era, economic activity cannot prescind from gratuitousness, which fosters and disseminates solidarity and responsibility for justice and the common good among the different economic players. |
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| Of course, if there were some sort of intelligence behind all this – a brain, perhaps, with a clipboard, an agenda and Something To Say – one might have some patience with the gratuitousness and the excess splattery. |
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| While in the past it was possible to argue that justice had to come first and gratuitousness could follow afterwards, as a complement, today it is clear that without gratuitousness, there can be no justice in the first place. |
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| The earthly city is promoted not merely by relationships of rights and duties, but to an even greater and more fundamental extent by relationships of gratuitousness, mercy and communion. |
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| To my mind, in its resolution the EU must clearly show the gratuitousness of Russia's expansionist plans, especially regarding the Baltic countries. |
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