Andrew Lansley was belatedly shuffled away from the portfolio in 2012, but not before he had unleashed a gratuitous reorganisation, and written his marketopian plan on to the statute book.
Loses a point for gratuitous mention of "macrobiotic soup".
There's a term for this brand of gratuitous online cruelty: we call it internet trolling.
There are gratuitous new restrictions on an already heavily curtailed right to strike, plans to rob the earnings of migrants who may work hard but lack the proper paperwork, and such a sweeping ban on legal highs that government lawyers could soon be fretting about accidentally criminalising sweets that give a sugar rush.
Yeah, it's manufactured, but it's got energy, a little funk and a gratuitous sexy "urgghh" in the middle.
The pieces will be more imaginative – I'm expecting thrones and direwolves and all sorts of gratuitous nipples – plus the stakes will be higher and, unlike the London edition, it might actually acknowledge the existence of the north for once.
The characters keep talking about the "great sex" they're having, but you think, "What great sex?" Sure, they rim each other, but that just makes you think back to the gratuitous food scenes littering this film.
Certainly, with GOT (the TV series, rather than the books), it seems rather late to start complaining about "gratuitous" scenes.
He said robust action by police would deter binge drinkers and help combat Britain's worsening problem of "gratuitous consumption" of alcohol.
Julia Gillard might get an interrogation about her empty fruitbowl, or about her oversized earlobes, but the gratuitous personal attack for Indigenous leaders often manifests around identity questions.
But his digs could be gratuitous and his exasperation overly theatrical.... Ryan parried this well.
