| Consequently, while there are torture scenes in the book, with enough detail to make a weak-stomached reader wince, they avoid gratuitousness. |
| What's remarkable about his filmmaking is the ability to present scenes of shocking defilement without a hint of prurience or gratuitousness. |
| But he rejects any charge of gratuitousness, citing a more political, and more personal, reason for their inclusion. |
| What is behind the riot of words, the exaggeration of images, their total gratuitousness? |
| 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. |
| Violence is released in quick, concentrated bursts that convey cruelty without gratuitousness. |
