Sentence examples for could gratuitously from inspiring English sources

If we were not required to have evidence to back our existential claims, then a theorist who fully explained the phenomena with one set of things could gratuitously add an extra entity, say, a pebble outside our light cone.

He was a free spirit, yet he could be gratuitously spiteful.

To refer to any one of the many prophets of religion could be gratuitously offensive; to invoke the name of Nostradamus might be simply scary (after all, according to some, the 16th century French astrologer has predicted the end of the world in 2012).

I couldn't tolerate gratuitously boisterous laughter.

I could have done without the gratuitously bloody ending, if only because by then Jones has so effectively shown that the death of the heart was slavery's worst horror.

Not even the most antitax Republicans want a gratuitously unequal society that could create resentment and even violence.

That it has taken so long for the church to reach such a basic decision is shameful, as is people celebrating the appointment of women bishops as though they had agreed a peace deal in Gaza, gratuitously pouring champagne when they could have used that moment of press coverage to highlight a real issue.

To think he could have spared the world yet another gratuitously self-indulgent piece penned by a millennial about an emotionally distant late father, and I'd have someone to mutter at me disapprovingly every time I mentioned how my career and housing situation and life was going.  .

To think, he could have spared the world yet another gratuitously self-indulgent piece penned by a millennial about an emotionally distant late father, and I'd have someone to mutter at me disapprovingly every time I mentioned how my career and housing situation and life was going.

Holly Martins, the bumbling antihero in Graham Greene's "Third Man," certainly knew what treacherous devils those birds could be, as one bit his hand quite gratuitously as Martins was escaping a band of black marketers.

How is it that he could be batting back charges of sexual harassment and yet gratuitously go after the highest-ranking woman in Congress — and choose sexist language to boot?