Sentence examples for considered gratuitous from inspiring English sources
Honoraria payments are considered "gratuitous" payments and are subject to income tax reporting (see Section 2).
Viewers do make a distinction between what is acceptable in context and that which is considered gratuitous.
They are taking a harder look at content that could be considered gratuitous and could set off a rash of complaints, but they are generally loath to soften their programming in ways that might send young-adult viewers elsewhere.
Privately, of course, Senate aides were fuming at what they considered gratuitous chiding.
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.
He also cited a "long held" standard of not publishing what may be considered a "gratuitous insult".
As Jamilah Lemieux writes at Ebony, "Her name is Raven hyphen alternate spelling of 'Simone,' complete with what could be considered a gratuitous accent mark... and yet she feels compelled to punch down at those who also have names that are also Black as a dice game at a church fish fry, but may not have hit the faux French mark as well as her own".
Consider the gratuitous gorgeousness of paintings by the Victorian Lawrence Alma-Tadema and of art films by today's Matthew Barney.
"What we have created is sensitive and well considered, not a gratuitous exploitation of suffering purely for the purposes of amusement," he told me.
He took some shots at Mitt Romney that were gratuitous considering the circumstances, as he privately acknowledges.
