Sentence examples for gratuitous difficulty from inspiring English sources

Caillois also introduces the idea that games range along a continuum between two modes: ludus, "the taste for gratuitous difficulty," and paidia, "the power of improvisation and joy".

But, as the global shift from analog to digital technology unfolded, its products had a basic flaw: they tended not to communicate with each other, or did so only with gratuitous difficulty.

Moreover, this kind of gratuitous, rumor-based insult illustrates the difficulty of achieving political harmony when partisans persist with personal attacks.

Gratuitous, too.

Or gratuitous?

Stark, gratuitous.

Note that gratuitous "lamely".

"They are not gratuitous.

It's just gratuitous.

Literature is necessarily gratuitous.

It was gratuitous.