Sentence examples for a gratuitous reference from inspiring English sources

Marci Shore, in an otherwise powerful and persuasive article about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, concludes with a gratuitous reference to Zionism, a statement whose validity is belied by the rest of the article.

For instance, a gratuitous reference to my work, along with Geoffrey Hill's, as "serious-minded to the point of pain and obscure of purpose" by Roger Lewis in the Times ("Say no to pompous professors") shows Lewis has conflated a superficial impression of Hill with a blurred and misleading one of me.

Should I stop and pick you up some tampons?" It had all the zaniness and sub-textual misogyny we expect from the new art-form, and was, of course, shortly followed by a gratuitous reference to the 20th Century dictators: "to assume you can crawl inside my head and know what my motivation is for writing a song is arrogance reserved for the likes of Hitler and Stalin".

The statement said: "The report's inclusion of a gratuitous reference to Mr. Stepien's brief dating relationship with Bridget Anne Kelly -- which began after he left the Governor's office, ended before the lane closure debacle began and took place at a time when both he and Ms. Kelly were single -- is a regrettable distraction that has no place in this report".

The suit contends it was only after Mr. Sheen began making disparaging remarks about Mr. Lorre - which included an apparently gratuitous reference to Mr. Lorre as "Chaim Levine," a Hebrew variant of his real name, Charles Levine - that any action was taken.

15 37 A gratuitous masturbation reference on "Blue".

Some is simply virulent and graceless, like his gratuitous reference to Enron executives as "Nazi bastards".

I spent that summer playing tennis, reading novels and working on a book filled with toilet jokes and gratuitous references to Harpo Marx.

It is full of salty sexual dialogue but has very few obscenities or gratuitous references, and no nudity or violence.

Infatuated with the promise of scientific research in education, the drafters went further, sprinkling the bill with scores of other gratuitous references to science.

In his 126-page brief, Mr. Swartz also said his conviction should be reversed because prosecutors made "gratuitous" references comparing Tyco to the fraud that destroyed the Enron Corporation.