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.