Sentence examples for gratuitous exercise of from inspiring English sources

Vast numbers of people in New York and beyond, even if they may not have admired Occupy or its message, felt they had witnessed a gratuitous exercise of police power.

But there are two or three duds for each winner like the bludgeoning 'Scheiße', a gratuitous exercise that strives to make a dance-floor thumper out of a song that was born that way".

(Apologies for that gratuitous use of the phrase "male grooming").

Boyle denied "punctuating" material with racist references or making "gratuitous" use of black people.

a gratuitous piece of deceit". Another White House visitor said that when Roosevelt was at the table, "hardly an observation was made by anyone else... and in fact, it would only have been possible by the exercise of a sort of brutal force". Sometimes when TR was monopolizing the conversation, Edith sent him a not-so-subtle signal by quietly saying "Theodore!

The group objected to the gratuitous scenes of drug and alcohol use, violence and sexual acts.

We avoid the gratuitous revelation of secrets.

Loses a point for gratuitous mention of "macrobiotic soup".

GPOY (Gratuitous Picture of Yourself) is a popular Tumblr tag.

The complaint was of "gratuitous depictions of smoking".

Gratuitous link of the day The Great Big Vegetable Challenge.