Sentence examples for gratuitous change from inspiring English sources

It is right to be cautious about gratuitous change and dismayed by prospects of more roadworks in a city incapable of managing them properly, but what precisely, apart from a fragile and evanescent status quo and a gloomy queue of No 11 buses, is it the objectors want to save?

Yet it is no gratuitous change of subject matter, but an enlightened persistence rather in the original epistemological problem" (1974, 3).

Also, she should not imagine gratuitous changes in her basic desires.

I sent an e-mail to the editor-in-chief, along with the manuscript with the associate editor's gratuitous changes highlighted in red--there were a lot of them--and got back a revised edit that was pretty much the same as the draft I had originally submitted.

He is as ever the master of the gratuitous scene change, and having Violetta's death scene begin in the upstairs bedroom and end in the parlor may serve no dramatic purpose, but it makes sure we won't forget that Verdi and Mr. Zeffirelli have equal billing in these proceedings.

But by Friday it had settled into the usual pattern of gratuitous insults, climate change denial, awks hi-vis photo opportunities and already very, very familiar talking points.

Without resorting to gratuitous touches and provocative changes to the opera, he said, he wanted to subvert the familiarity so that audiences would leave shocked and awed yet also touched by this 1875 masterpiece.

But here that setting isn't gratuitous; a hair-related eureka moment helps Martina change the course of the case.

Only one person, toward the end of the discussion, cited climate change -- and his response seemed almost gratuitous in recognition that we were about to screen a documentary on the melting of icebergs.

One of the new freedoms ushered in by cultural change was the license to depict casual or even gratuitous nudity.

Hopefully attitudes will change over things such as journalism, and the growing distaste of gratuitous news outlets, indicates that people may be waking up.