Sentence examples for gratuitous excess from inspiring English sources
In Hollywood, gratuitous excess — not necessity — is the mother of invention.
What's missing, however, are some of the seemingly gratuitous excesses that have already become staples of reality television -- the sex, the bugs, the ritual humiliation.
"Quando l'uomo" is a solo work that contains the truly surprising provocative imagery and skillful dramatic pacing that are Mr. Fabre's great gifts — and at a running time of 50 minutes, it comes without the numbing repetition and sometimes gratuitous excesses of his larger-scale works.
The Des Moines Register thought that the album was "wallowing in excess so gratuitous as to make Michael Bolton, by comparison, seem a master of understatement... Mountains of banshee-like wailing guitars!
Biological systems of all sorts have excess capacities, e.g., a recent commentary marvels at the gratuitous capacities of metabolic networks [ 26].
Keep it concise and don't stuff your sentence with unnecessary, superfluous, gratuitous content that smothers your prose, muddies your intentions, confuses the reader, clogs up the page with excess text, pads out the work with inelegant drivels, irritates the eye, examines giraffes, and renders your point unclear.
He had disliked the wilful excesses of postmodern design in the 1980s, and watched cautiously as a new wave of gratuitous bendy, twisty buildings sprouted from city skylines worldwide in the 1990s.
Note that gratuitous "lamely".
