Sentence examples similar to gratuitous point from inspiring English sources

Lively, however, says 15 points were often awarded as "gratuitous points" - essentially, credits simply for having a pulse.

No gratuitous stop smoking services are available in Poland.

It's a staid film biography that wants most desperately to be a musical -- to bracket its subject's name between gratuitous exclamation points.

His humorously helpful parentheticals, doubt-inducing scare quotes, casual "like"s dropped carefully amidst otherwise competent sentences, and gratuitous exclamation points litter the online landscape.

Before the first blade has hit the frozen water, some contestants have already taken an early lead by reciting various celebrity mantras in the press: Gratuitous sexual references: Points here for Ellery in the Mirror, hoping that none of his costumes leave his "lunchbox hanging out".

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

Whatever its motive, the Supreme Court's intervention at this point seems so gratuitous that I find it hard to shake the concern that some justices may actually think that social engineering of this sort may actually do some good.

That jab was classic Palin: scoring a political point with a gratuitous personal insult.

They reserve special, scabrous words for the teenage sensation Martin Garrix (which seems a little gratuitous for a kid, but point taken).

Days later, people in various feminist camps were still screaming at each other about misogyny and gratuitous violence, and perhaps missing the point that all characters in the video are fictional.

12.46pm BST It seems gratuitous to work through the wrong in this song point by point.