Sentence examples similar to gratuitous digression from inspiring English sources

She loved flaunting her erudition in gratuitous digressions.

But I digress (from my digression).

The Burley Cross residents also share a dangerous weakness for digression, deferral and what one letter-writer calls the "gratuitous outpouring of hysterical waffle".

There are gratuitous sex scenes and shout-outs to acquaintances, discussions of favoured writers and unhinged digressions.

Occasionally, the power of Maza's prose is marred by heavy-handed academic tics: a strangely uncritical use of Freudian theory to analyze the Nozière "family romance"; a self-conscious, gratuitous-seeming tip of the hat toward deconstruction ("an abyss of explanation") in an overlong digression on the significance of the fait divers as narrative form.

Gratuitous, too.

Digression over.

Or gratuitous?

Stark, gratuitous.

Why the digression?

Note that gratuitous "lamely".