Sentence examples for gratuitous degree from inspiring English sources

Moshfegh dwells on the body and its functions to a gratuitous degree (laxatives and vermouth are Eileen's substances of choice), but there is a punkish radicalism to her depiction of a mousy young woman as a perverse grotesque.

More and more, it exploits gratuitous killing to an unconscionable degree.

Forgive yourself the SoHo Club membership, the Southampton beach house and those gratuitous allusions to your son's Yale degree.

With the right degree of swagger, some ill-judged public pronouncements and a dash of gratuitous offence you could easily provoke an international incident and, who knows, even war.

Gratuitous, too.

Or gratuitous?

Stark, gratuitous.

Note that gratuitous "lamely".

"They are not gratuitous.

It's just gratuitous.

I hate gratuitous violence.