Sentence examples for a gratuitous addition from inspiring English sources

What's most impressive about the series is how the interactivity is fully baked into the story, rather than feeling like a gratuitous addition.

In act two Scarpia is being pleasured by a courtesan kneeling between his legs, a wholly gratuitous addition to Puccini's portrayal of an evil torturer who exudes suppressed sexuality in any case.

He criticized the first draft (1888) of a new German civil law code for what he considered the gratuitous addition of Roman law elements to an indigenous Germanic content that was sufficient in itself.

"We always like projects where puppets are not gratuitous additions but are unavoidably necessary," Mr. Jones said.

All the characteristics usually attributed to the deity – that he is morally perfect, that he loves his creatures, that his human creations are images of himself – all these are quite gratuitous additions to the inferred creative function.

But Sue's experience of stereoscopy was clearly not a gratuitous or meaningless addition to her visual world.

Commitment to states of affairs in addition to propositions is sometimes regarded with scorn, as a gratuitous ontological duplication.

Violence, swearing, a gratuitous shower.

Were they just a gratuitous mess?

15 37 A gratuitous masturbation reference on "Blue".

Is this a newsworthy artifact or a gratuitous snuff film?