Also, surely, we should be allowed to express our sincerely held views without them needing to pass a test of "gratuitousness"?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference
Eroticism is at its most intense when gratuitousness is absent. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
And in -- and it ` s the gratuitousness, or it ` s the exercise of power. From Wordnik.com. [Evil: An Investigation] Reference
This kind of fictional project is, of course, threatened by gratuitousness. From Wordnik.com. [New Fiction] Reference
I took a plot line of some massive ten book fantasy exercise in gratuitousness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
That said, the gratuitousness of the altered Reuters photos just makes them that much worse. From Wordnik.com. [Reuters’ Altered Photos: Overhyped? Dangerous? Both - Tuned In - TIME.com] Reference
Now, with all of this as background, it is easier to see what Benedict means by gratuitousness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
Movies and TV do this as well, but the interactivity and gratuitousness of videogames is unique. From Wordnik.com. [Media Violence, Aggression, and Policy] Reference
Moving on to the "coded" theology, this concerns chiefly the idea of gift or gratuitousness (34; 37; 39). From Wordnik.com. [Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:] Reference
And while he deals with many issues in this way, I would like to focus on the principle of gratuitousness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
But Benedict goes even further: He insists on a principle of gratuitousness in business, on the idea of pure gift. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
December's gratuitousness was indeed enjoyable, but the blissful ignorance of overspending must be accounted for today. From Wordnik.com. [Dealing with Post-Holiday Debt] Reference
And that is exactly what is most painful about Obama's elevation of Warren to "America's pastor:" the gratuitousness of it all. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Obama Disagrees] Reference
An authentic love should assume the contingence of the other; that is to say, his lacks, his limitations, and his basic gratuitousness. From Wordnik.com. [Beauvoir's Positive Side] Reference
The main attribute of eloquence is gratuitousness: its place in the world is to be without place or function, its mode is to be intrinsic. From Wordnik.com. [When Words Work a Special Magic] Reference
Since the character of gratuitousness thus occurs outside the genus of grace, it is an error to regard it as a character which distinguishes grace from grace. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
So the reason I introduced it was that it was -- you know, it ` s an interest -- we are all familiar with some case, similar case, I think, but, again, the gratuitousness of it. From Wordnik.com. [Evil: An Investigation] Reference
The gratuitousness of its inclusion was even more exposed than Simon was. From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
From the supernatural character of grace flows its second quality: gratuitousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
In other words, that which characterizes social perfection is the gratuitousness of credit. From Wordnik.com. [Sophisms of the Protectionists] Reference
In other words, that which characterises social perfection is the gratuitousness of credit. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Political Economy] Reference
In short, on Thursday, "The Mentalist" veered from gratuitous flair to gratuitous gratuitousness. From Wordnik.com. [Salon] Reference
Unable to admit the absolute gratuitousness of predestination, they sought a middle course between Augustine and. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
Here it is not, I think, so much the unnatural character of the incident itself, as its gratuitousness which offends. From Wordnik.com. [Milton] Reference
The three qualities of actual grace are of the utmost importance: its necessity, its gratuitousness, and its universality. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
In Roman Law, gratuitousness was not essential to the mutuum, but only presumed in the absence of any stipulation to the contrary. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference
Don't you think it is destructive to a passion whose essence is its gratuitousness? ". From Wordnik.com. [Jude the Obscure] Reference
Maybe it's a gratuitousness thing?. From Wordnik.com. [Mark of the Demon, by Diana Rowland] Reference
Emilio swish.mad reinstatement.gratuitousness?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Brokaw: Hussein Execution ‘Resembled The Worst Kind Of Nightmare Out Of The Old American West’] Reference
What you end up is avoiding gratuitousness. From Wordnik.com. [Nintendo DS] Reference
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