11.   By a landslide, Americans are choosing the good over the grotesque, excellence over exploitation, quiet virtue over gratuitous violence, and character over pointless cruelty. . . .

12.   Even when the Panthers argue in this movie, they never approach the gratuitous violence and vulgarity of gangster rap.

13.   His prose is shocking not only for its gratuitous violence but also for the cool, detached manner in which he recounts seemingly amoral acts.

14.   In a book that is devoid of gratuitous violence, Pelecanos is tough and savvy enough to make sure that justice is done.

15.   In a day of widely divergent opinions, producers seemed able to agree that while violent content in dramatic shows is unavoidable, gratuitous violence can be reduced.

16.   Instead, they process information and create values by watching the gratuitous violence on television and by experiencing the incomprehensibly violent world outside their own front doors.

17.   It sends up all those overinflated and gratuitously violent cop movies, then itself opts for overinflation and gratuitous violence.

18.   Macy said he was a critic of gratuitous violence in film.

19.   Mind you, there are no naked bodies, no gratuitous violence, no blunt-smoking thugs in the entire clip.

20.   MLS would be wise to draw the line on gratuitous violence now.