Sentence examples for being gratuitous from inspiring English sources

Essay collections are often dismissed for being gratuitous, diffuse, and beset by authorial tics.

Utterly creepy, without being gratuitous, and an exciting start to what is intended to become a series about Rome.

Relentlessly subversive, accessible without being gratuitous, densely paranoid and paranoidally dense, the humor is rooted in a vast knowledge of history, art, literature, science and law.

"Far from being gratuitous harvesters of private information, in practice we focus our work very carefully and tightly against those who intend harm," he said, insisting that adequate safeguards were in place to protect innocent citizens.

"I copped to the fact that we should have done a better job of not being gratuitous in our representation of a barely clothed actress," he wrote, adding: "We also had Kirk shirtless in underpants in both movies, [but I] do not want to make light of something that some construe as misogynistic.

"I wanted to treat violence as information, and so how do I give that information to the reader without being gratuitous?" An Untamed State is the story of Mireille Duval Jameson, a Miami-based lawyer who travels to Haiti, with her husband Michael and their son Christophe, to visit her wealthy parents, before being kidnapped for 13 days and brutalised by a group of men.

It was gratuitous.

The scatology is gratuitous.

O.K. that was gratuitous.

"It was gratuitous and unnecessary.

"It was gratuitous," Murtha said.