Sentence examples for found it gratuitous from inspiring English sources

And yet that final scene still bothers me, and I can't help agreeing with those other audience members (both women and men) who found it gratuitous, a cheap shock tactic.

I don't find it gratuitous - it's a serious look at just how these bastards get away with it.

I don't find it gratuitous.

Whatever its motive, the Supreme Court's intervention at this point seems so gratuitous that I find it hard to shake the concern that some justices may actually think that social engineering of this sort may actually do some good.

(I found the scene in which children bathed, in underwear, all too vividly lit, more disturbing or, dare I say it, gratuitous).

Is it gratuitous?

Two judges called it "gratuitous".

The eggplant variety had undergone nine years of intensive testing and scrutiny (much of it gratuitous).

Is that sufficient or is it gratuitous?

Gratuitous nastiness is always a problem in fiction, but personally I find gratuitous niceness even harder to take.

How do we weigh the suffering of a victim and find gassing obscenely gratuitous but white phosphorus or cluster bombs reasonable?