Sentence examples for gratuitous effort from inspiring English sources
Kinsella, Darabont's attorney, called AMC's decision to release the emails a "completely gratuitous effort to besmirch Frank's reputation….
No gratuitous efforts to shock, no attempts to graft the heavy messages of drama into a sitcom; just good-natured fun that nicely mixes satire on real life (the wrestling husband's stage persona is the Crybaby) with absurdity (as in a scene in which dancers audition for a starring role by singing notices off the dressing-room bulletin board).
When I first heard about this promotion I almost lumped it in with other gratuitous creative efforts designed to be outrageous just to be outrageous.
They were rewarded for their efforts with gratuitous violence and expulsion from the communities they had done so much to build, including Tacoma.
The Times's efforts to avoid gratuitous vulgarity have sometimes produced difficult distinctions.
Two efforts are especially gratuitous: Ms. Cox as St. Sebastian, with 41 arrow wounds to commemorate Amadou Diallo, and a large photograph of her parents-in-law, who are white, draped in African fabric, titled "Colonization of White People/The In-Laws".
"This is a lesson you get taught about C.D.," says Ms. McAlevey, whose $900 rent for "less than a box" in downtown Stamford is a constant reminder that her efforts here are not gratuitous.
Imagery and movement — not gratuitous destruction — prevail.
Wasn't this document a gratuitous insult to their partners in interfaith efforts?
The novel's sporadic references to racial politics and America's evolving social mores also feel like gratuitous add-ons, penciled in later in an effort to lend this claustrophobic drama some extra dimension and heft.
