Sentence examples for gratuitous abuse from inspiring English sources

She maintained it was important to try to show up The Sunday Times and Mr Gill as having overstepped the boundary between acceptable comment and gratuitous abuse.

It will simply prevent gratuitous abuse of accused priests by bishops who want the problem of priest pedophilia off the radar screen.

The first conjures images of gratuitous abuse by a booted, moustachioed and chain-smoking paramilitary who takes pleasure in inflicting pain, while the second is a procedure in which discomfort is secondary to obtaining information.

They would, as USDA consultant and slaughterhouse expert Dr. Temple Grandin has suggested, install video cameras to monitor for animal abuse and food safety problems, and they would hire independent inspectors to review the video and make sure that there was no gratuitous abuse and that dangerous meat was not being sold.

I've nothing against his actor who is an absolute ball as Rex "Power" Colt in the 80s action movie-spoofing video game Far Cry: Blood Dragon, and has been cool in some films but c'mon, now: Don't let Gearbox's gratuitous abuse of their privileges adversely affect this opportunity for a fresh start.

I've nothing against his actor – who is an absolute ball as Rex "Power" Colt in the 80s action movie-spoofing video game Far Cry: Blood Dragon, and has been cool in some films – but c'mon, now: don't let Gearbox's gratuitous abuse of their privileges adversely affect this opportunity for a fresh start.

In Trovatore, this meant Manrico angrily shoving Leonora around a graffiti-sprayed container truck as the music speaks only of their tender, if doomed love; in Pelléas, it entailed gratuitous child abuse amid the random ravings of irrelevant inmates.

But they don't need to depict gratuitous animal abuse".

Or for someone to give you a heads up that the film you're about to see contains a gratuitous sexual abuse scene?

Most of these are gratuitous insult".

As a schmaltzy trope of mass-market cinema, the melodramatic dog death is right up there with the terminally ill child or the gratuitous sexual-abuse scene: unnervingly common; generally dismaying; apparently in no danger of going away.