Sentence examples for essentially gratuitous from inspiring English sources
Gilliam wrote in his 29-page ruling that the new rules "transform contraceptive coverage from a legal entitlement to an essentially gratuitous benefit wholly subject to their employer's discretion".
I find the vulgarity essential, not gratuitous".
Lively, however, says 15 points were often awarded as "gratuitous points" - essentially, credits simply for having a pulse.
In contrast, Luc Bondy's sorry new production of Puccini's "Tosca," which opened the Metropolitan Opera's season in September, was conceptually muddled: essentially a traditional staging marred by gratuitous invented nonsense.
She dismissed the majority's criticism of Abood as "potshots" and "gratuitous dicta" (opinion not essentially related to the question presented) and insisted in response to what she took to be the majority's suggestion that Abood could be overruled in a future case that the decision was "deeply entrenched" and "impossible for this Court to reverse".
But when the Saudis see American lawmakers glorifying disproven allegations, the president saying their region is essentially hopeless and international media chasing gratuitous stories about Saudi moral hypocrisy, they're less likely to accept criticism based on real concerns.
It's full of the kind of casual police violence at which even Gene Hunt would have baulked, as well as gratuitous images of mutilated women's bodies, but it's essentially Prime Suspect with a large dose of Gallic attitude and some added legal intrigue.
Note that gratuitous "lamely".
