Sentence examples for approach would be gratuitous from inspiring English sources

Moreover, this approach would be gratuitous.

If violence on screen was so regular and people barely noticed it, that would be gratuitous.

Releasing the pictures would not silence doubters and would be gratuitous, he said.

And this cruelty would be gratuitous: While the United States does have a long-run budget problem, Social Security is not a major factor in that problem.

It would be a gratuitous act of self-harm.

The nearest approach to art is gratuitous homicide.

For heroines of the Jane Austen ilk to be so defined would have been gratuitous.

Obama did not go so far as to quote his defeated opponent's forty-seven-per-cent line — that would have been gratuitous and tacky.

Of course, it can be gratuitous.

That isn't to be say we should be gratuitous.

I don't want it to be gratuitous.