Sentence examples similar to gratuitous formality from inspiring English sources

The feeling in the hangar before the flight, and as the crew prepared to launch, was of shift workers who are hyper-attentive to their particular tasks and not the least concerned with gratuitous formalities.

Gratuitous, too.

Or gratuitous?

Stark, gratuitous.

A formality.

Note that gratuitous "lamely".

No formality.

"They are not gratuitous.

It's just gratuitous.

Literature is necessarily gratuitous.

Adding Glass felt gratuitous.