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“They have no value to me. Taking their lives would just be gratuitous at this point.”

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The producers said their gruesome portrayals of bear attacks were not gratuitous violence but a form of artistic expression "inherent to a monster thriller".

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Take the 2019 docuseries “Don’t F**k with Cats,” which includes gratuitous shots of animal violence and shots of a real snuff film.

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Still, reaching bigger stages will require editing the most gratuitous slurs, if only to broaden the music’s export potential.

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Ms. King seeds her love story with engaging dialogue and literary references that are never pretentious or gratuitous.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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