Sentence examples for gratuitous activity from inspiring English sources
In pragmatic terms, art is a privileged zone of gratuitous activity, with boundaries maintained by the agreement of the vested authorities.
Freedom itself, which at times in his previous writings appeared to be a gratuitous activity that needed no particular aim or purpose to be of value, became a tool for human struggle in his brochure L'Existentialisme est un humanisme (1946; Existentialism and Humanism).
She did believe that, as a mental activity, judgment is gratuitous, but what also appeared gratuitous in Eichmann is "proper" judgment, the ability "to tell right from wrong".44 Then again, Arendt's views on the role of examples seem to indicate a potential solution.
On occasion he has been shot at, stabbed, and, by his own admission, committed gratuitous acts of violence and other activities the law frowns on.
"YouTube's Community Guidelines prohibit among other things, gratuitous violence, nudity, dangerous and illegal activities, and hate speech," a YouTube spokesperson told Motherboard in an email.
As for the film's NC-17 rating: Although sexual activity and nudity are abundant, they rarely feel gratuitous.
"After review, we've determined that activity in your account violated our Community Guidelines, which state that the promotion or display of gratuitous violence is not acceptable on our site," the second email states.
Note that gratuitous "lamely".
