Sentence examples for gratuitous excuse from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, the permissiveness of our societies, the libertarian views some people express, even in this House, are undoubtedly the essential root of this evil, with geographical remoteness just an illusory and gratuitous excuse for the depraved.

We see gratuitous excuses for reporting so often that the public has become jaded.

The Western ballet world used to deplore the addition of a Jester to "Swan Lake" as a tacky Soviet excuse for gratuitous display.

What I struggle with (which, like the verb " to find problematic", has become the polite way to say "loathe") is the way that mobster movies invite us to believe that they are deeply meaningful in a way that excuses the heroic portrayal of their gratuitous, male-centered violence.

Mr. Clug also takes a robot voice from the band's album "OK Computer" as the excuse for a mechanical solo for Juliet, adroit but gratuitous.

The "BBC Two Awards" on November 5th supposedly established to reward TV innovations, but basically an excuse to re-show some popular clips are probably the most gratuitous.

"We have run out of excuses for our failure to live up to our responsibility to protect our innocent defenceless children from gratuitous violence," the speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, told legislators at a special session last week to mourn the latest victims – 59 students killed at a boarding school in neighbouring Yobe state on 25 February.

Gratuitous, too.

Or gratuitous?

Stark, gratuitous.

Note that gratuitous "lamely".