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The horror factor, however, takes a back seat when Ally and Jay share comically gratuitous moments of rom-com schmaltz.

The flurry - or slurry, as his critics see it - of social media posts from Mr Musk include not just gratuitous insults and ignorance, but falsehoods.

The film also understands the power of unlocking such a dynamic, without being gratuitous about the visual details.

Before shooting even began, Lively refused to do additional sex scenes that Baldoni pushed because she considered them gratuitous, according to the complaint.

That press conference came in the shadow of the Hur report, in which the special counsel made a gratuitous comment about Biden being an elderly man with a bad memory.