"scene" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Catherine Yronwode edited Alien Encounters for Eclipse, which was noted for its racy, pulp magazine-inspired covers, and was sometimes criticized for featuring gratuitous nude scenes.
- There are a number of gratuitous scenes of pain and violence in the novel, including an almost leering description of Bill extracting a calf from its mother's body with cables attached to its legs.
- The movie is so aware of the character's dislikability factor that it throws in a gratuitous scene of Maggie warmly interacting with her nice dotty mother (Maureen Stapleton), but it doesn't really help.
- There is no graphic depiction of Kristel's genitals, but nevertheless, Harrington insisted that it was a gratuitous scene that the producers forced him to put in the picture.
- Here, whatever points are being made are demolished by a gratuitous, altogether preposterous final scene, an add-on, a sort of "All About Eve" spinoff filled with stock theatrical references.
- Ms. Gardiner, saying that "Angels" is "a big risk and a smart move" for the theater, is interested in how the audience is going to deal with the play's graphic but not gratuitous scenes.
- "The Dower House" has a couple of similar, apparently gratuitous, scenes in which the aristocratic Molly's cultivated status is validated by a different type of character, a prospective employer who just happens to be a novelist.
- George Hannah, as a dreadlocked Faust, and Eunice Wong, as Gretchen, are physically attractive, but bring nothing but their looks (each has a gratuitous nude scene) to their parts.
- The story is weighed down, however, by gratuitous scenes and protracted dialogue.
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