Sentence examples similar to gratuitous punishment from inspiring English sources

The author, the 8th of 14 children in a Roman Catholic Lithuanian-American family, tells of being raised in fear in the 1950's and 60's in a household ruled by parental anger, physical punishment and gratuitous cruelty.

Most American voters endorse gratuitous get-toughism as an article of faith: they support the death penalty, clamour for corporal punishment in schools and are proud to maintain the world's largest prison population.

Gratuitous, too.

Or gratuitous?

Stark, gratuitous.

Note that gratuitous "lamely".

"They are not gratuitous.

It's just gratuitous.

Adding Glass felt gratuitous.

Literature is necessarily gratuitous.

It was gratuitous.