Sentence examples for absolutely gratuitous from inspiring English sources

It remains to be seen whether Eta itself will one day agree with a phrase uttered by another of Fernando Mugica's sons, José Maria, hours after his father was gunned down in 1996: "Time will say that this was horror, an absolutely gratuitous piece of horror".

The problem here is that if indeed there is this incompatibility between a perfectly good necessary being (God) and gratuitous evils or even absolutely horrendous evils, then it would follow that such worlds would not be possible worlds, for they would contain a contradiction.

Gratuitous, too.

Or gratuitous?

Stark, gratuitous.

Note that gratuitous "lamely".

"They are not gratuitous.

It's just gratuitous.

Literature is necessarily gratuitous.

Adding Glass felt gratuitous.

It was gratuitous.