Sentence examples similar to gratuitous perplexities from inspiring English sources

Was there "gratuitous degradation"?

Gratuitous, too.

Stark, gratuitous.

Or gratuitous?

"They are not gratuitous.

It's just gratuitous.

Note that gratuitous "lamely".

Adding Glass felt gratuitous.

Literature is necessarily gratuitous.

It was gratuitous.

But maybe not gratuitous.