Sentence examples for gratuitous in from inspiring English sources

It's not gratuitous in any way.

Why gratuitous, in this self-evident context?

There is nothing gratuitous in the savagery, he adds.

"The violence is not gratuitous in this case, but nonetheless they have taken things down.

There is nothing gratuitous in this film, nothing fancy or false.

The violence isn't gratuitous — in some cases, you have to kill to survive — but it isn't sugar-coated, either.

Mr Ahmadinejad, a first-caliber incendiary nationalist politician, may well understand this perfectly, and his gratuitous finger-in-the-eye Holocaust denials may be intended to bring on an airstrike that would benefit him politically.

Only at the end does the film let her down, slapping us with that oddly gratuitous sequence in which Ripley escapes in a space-pod and proceeds to strip down to her undies.

At best, he is more sensitive to accusations of homophobia, as shown by a gratuitous scene in the film "8 Mile" in which he sticks up for a gay man at the auto-stamping plant where his character works.

While the opening sequence has what appears to be gratuitous nudity, in hindsight it withstands scrutiny in order to define Whip Whitaker's (Washington) character.

Brazil built or remodeled twelve stadiums for last summer's World Cup, including a completely gratuitous installation in the Amazons, but they came in over $1billion over budget.