Chris Chibnall

I don't ever want to be gratuitous, for the sake of being gratuitous, but when it serves the stories and the characters, it's nice to be able to do that, realistically and with credibility. You don't want to do it for the sake of it, or shoe-horn it in. But, it's a good tool to have in the toolbox.

English Writer

Shanola Hampton

When you're on a show that is so free with the body and nudity, you get a guest director every episode, and you want to make sure that they're not trying to one-up each other. It will take away the integrity of our show and the character if you're just gratuitously showing boobs.

American Actress

Steven Hatfill

I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am the anthrax mailer. This does not, however, give them the right to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life in the process. I will not be railroaded.

American Scientist

Ruth Bradley

I wouldn't do really gratuitous nudity. When I was in my late teens, you'd read stuff and be like, 'That character serves no purpose except being naked', so that would not be something I'd want to do. It's pointless for me.

Irish Actress

Man Ray

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

American Photographer

Laurell K. Hamilton

Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development.

American Writer

Joyce Carol Oates

There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better.

American Novelist

John Updike

There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.

Barbara Demick

The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.

American Journalist

Simone Weil

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

French Philosopher

Often signals disapproval, suggesting something is excessive or unwelcome.

Negative Connotation

Implies an action was taken without a rational motive or provocation.

Unprovoked Action

Emphasizes kindness or the benevolent nature of an act done without expecting payment.

Positive Generosity

Highlights the absence of payment or a transactional relationship.

No Financial Exchange

Implies that the information or aspect is not key to the main point or purpose.

Lack of Relevance

Can suggest that something goes beyond what is usual or proper.

Perceived Excess

 If it's in the art collection, it might be a critique of the killing instrument. So it's very interesting. But we are acquiring our critical dimension also in design, so maybe one day we'll be able to acquire also the guns. But here, in this particular case, we decided, you know, with Kate and Paul, that we would have no gratuitous violence.

Paola Antonelli: Why I...

 added a gratuitous subtitle saying, The next 21st-century power." And I just don't think that's what India's all about, or should be all about. Indeed, what worries me is the entire notion of world leadership seems to me terribly archaic. It's redolent of James Bond movies and Kipling ballads.

Why nations should...

 made jokes about that session I look like an and I don't want to do that I don't want to do that the thank you for not killing us all Award goes to Lois dar tell who started an open fire in the midst of a lumberyard that was a really interesting choice gratuitous use of old photos shirtless

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 And it's not completely gratuitous, because "wok" and "roll" -- Chinese food and Japanese foods, so it kind of works out. And Americans love their Chinese food so much, they've actually brought it into space. NASA, for example, serves thermostabilized sweet-and-sour pork

Jennifer 8. Lee: Who was...

 But instead of pointing at you, which would be gratuitous and intrusive, I thought I would tell you a few facts and stories, in which you may catch a glimpse of yourself. I'm in the field of research known as personality psychology,

Who are you, really? The...

 you don't get emotionally involved in the in the recreation of course you do I mean that but been gratuitous about it versus having ones humanity very different thinking that it belongs to you taking some kind of self-important

Alexandra Fuller: Born...

 them up for the world but I've also over the last year or so got in touch with my inner tortoise and what that means is that I don't I no longer overload myself gratuitous Lane my default mode is no

Praising slowness - Carl...

 Let me see if I can help us find the circuit board. Mind you, it's a sort of gratuitous field-stripping exercise, but we do it in the lab all the time. All right.

Pointing to the future...

 But I've also, over the last year or so, got in touch with my inner tortoise. And what that means is that I no longer overload myself gratuitously.

Carl Honore: In praise...

 The writer George Eliot cautioned us that, among all forms of mistake, prophesy is the most gratuitous. The person that we would all acknowledge

Gratuitous

Done without any good reason.

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Given freely or unpaid.

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Unnecessary or unimportant.

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Negative Connotation

Unprovoked Action

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