gratuitousness

While what I originally took as purpose explodes into gratuitousness.

Because if yes, then the gratuitousness would seem to be found in what seems to be your debut Guardian post.

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.

"Gratuitousness is a relative call," he says.

And I honestly can't see the gratuitousness.

Don't you think it is destructive to a passion whose essence is its gratuitousness?"

But gratuitousness abounds.

Benedict states civil society is the most natural setting for gratuitousness, but that gratuity is also needed in the operations of the State and the Market.

To my mind, in its resolution the EU must clearly show the gratuitousness of Russia's expansionist plans, especially regarding the Baltic countries.

BBC representatives downplayed the gratuitousness of the story, comparing it to Moll Flanders.

Carlos is, as he makes clear, not even from the United States, which adds a certain gratuitousness to the three tours of duty he did in Vietnam.

There's a gratuitousness of form over content: so much more is done than is 'required' for the purposes of communication, so much flaunting and adornment.

EPIZOO: Cruelty and Gratuitousness in Real Virtuality.

There is some gratuitousness: sounds of screaming and violent quarrels add touches of "Snake Pit" macabre and "Girl, Interrupted" sensationalism."

It captured, in the wreath-laying and the gratuitousness of the Prince's outburst, the cross-currents of fondness and rebuke, reconciliation and resentment, that eddied around the royal tour.

Ms. Stephan is to be commended for the ambition of her choice of play; at the same time she should be remonstrated for the gratuitousness of her directorial approach.

The charge of gratuitousness was, in Alistair's view, safely anticipated by Brad's valediction to her remains, in which sanguinary revenge on the Nebulans was both prefigured and legitimized.

"We don't understand the gratuitousness of the attacks on family members," said Jan Worthington, a cousin who is an emergency medical technician in the town and was dispatched to the house after a neighbor discovered the body.

He also writes as a novelist and book critic, relying upon his literary instincts to isolate those details in the Gospels that seem, in their vividness, strangeness or sheer gratuitousness, to have the ring of truth.

Though one is supposed to contemplate the climax as Mr. Bergman's despairing commentary on the state of the world, instead we wonder about the gratuitousness of the scene - and about the Swedish director's possible animosity toward Norway.

Fergus O'Hare's blood-curdling sound design - thunderous, rumbling and eerie - complements Ms. Wanamaker's authenticity in an aural metaphor for Mr. Leveaux's stage pictures, which involve bloodletting in varying degrees of gore and gratuitousness.

Later in the interview, she expressed amusement at her recollections of the Times gratuitousness in publishing two photos of George H. W. Bush throwing up at a diplomatic meeting in Japan, then said: "Is your tape recorder running?

As a compliment to his stated preference for lyricism in prose, Perpessicius also believed that the modern novel and novella were interfering with each other to the point were distinction became "absolute gratuitousness" (a vision discussed in his Menţiuni critice).

In emphasising form and the 'gratuitousness' to daily concerns Kolve is reflecting the writing of the Dutch anthropologist and philosopher Johan Huizinga (1970) who also sees play (in all its senses) as something apart from'ordinary life'and as a means of 'creating order'.

The Pope states there is both a moral and economic case to conclude that "in commercial relationships the principles of gratuitousness and the logic of gift as an expression of gratuitousness can and must find their place within normal economic activity".