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To her and her like, birth itself was an ordeal of degrading personal compulsion, whose gratuitousness nothing in the result seemed to justify, and at best could only palliate.

I ask him whether he ever feels that his work strays close to gratuitousness, to a kind of wilful lingering over scenes of pain.

The sequence has been severely criticized for its sexism (Adams; Iacovino) and co-writer Damon Lindelof replied to the accusations on May 2013 by acknowledging on Twitter its gratuitousness. Lindelof then apologized for it by stating: "I take responsibility and will be more mindful in the future" (in Child).

So by all accounts, as the world has been witnessing Trump's politics of patronage and humiliating gratuitousness, all of the lines which under previous administrations were blurred, suddenly came to life in bright lights focused on a foreign policy dictated by Israel.

Alphonsus has various thematic and dramaturgical links to other plays by Peele, or by Peele and Shakespeare, especially in scenes that border on absurdity and gratuitousness. Like Titus Andronicus, the play shows a violated daughter stabbed in an honour killing by her maddened father who likens himself to Virginius.

that keeps them from growing soft from ease and gratuitousness, or from

spectacle exists in the gratuitousness of the actor's gesture.

Only the legislations regarding gratuitousness in collective public transport are the responsibility of the governments of the states and municipalities.

We argue that living organ transplant should be treated objectively rather than being absolutely forbidden, and it should be dealt with under the guiding principle on life ethics including voluntariness, gratuitousness and respect.

Let us end with the words of Pope Francis: 'We must recover the whole sense of gift, of gratuitousness, of solidarity.

Yet, there is never heavy-handedness, never an agenda or gratuitousness, and never any suggestion that he knows answers.

Relationality enriches business with a human sense of fraternity that Benedict called "gratuitousness," "logic of gift," and "reciprocity." (55) He formulated his message as a challenge, not as a detailed directive for action, because the concepts are intellectually challenging: their implications for business are not immediately obvious; quite to the contrary, they seem impossible.