Sentence examples for gratuitous complexity from inspiring English sources
Instead, they tried to cover up their failure to do so by baffling their customers with gratuitous complexity.
Computer conferences now buzz with discussion of what Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the M.I.T. Media Laboratory, has called the "gratuitous complexity" of computers.
For the time being, then, our best bet is to do all we can to reduce the gratuitous complexity of our progressive income tax.
Ask almost any Windows programmer who is also fluent in some other system and they will wax eloquent regarding the hacks, kludges, bugs, gratuitous complexity and hidden pitfalls which are provided at no extra cost with each Windows release.
In actuarial terms, then, this should be the time HBO's "Game of Thrones," which returns Sunday, hits critical turbulence, dinged for repetition or gratuitous complexity, for complacency or contrivance, especially given the necessarily increased deviations from George R.R. Martin's sacred text.
Occasionally, nature startles us with baroque and apparently gratuitous complexity.
Chapter 3, "Baroque Design: Gratuitous Genomic Complexity," is about ways in which a cell carries out metabolic functions in error-prone, roundabout pathways.
Note that gratuitous "lamely".
