Sentence examples for gratuitous spectacle from inspiring English sources
We gotta get Cheney on to contradict the President for "balanced" coverage, defenders of this ridiculous and gratuitous spectacle would doubtless say in their defense.
It is, of course, at this late point in the film that a cosmic threat and a big punch-up are shoehorned into the plot, delivering precisely the sort of action extravaganza that audiences (and studios) expect in a big-budget Marvel adaptation, while equally marking it as gratuitous, tacked-on, pathetically empty spectacle.
The Independent writer Nicholas Barber stated "Janet's concerts are the pop equivalent of a summer blockbuster movie, with all the explosions, special effects, ersatz sentimentality, gratuitous cleavage and emphasis on spectacle over coherence that the term implies".
"Funny Games," Mr. Haneke's first English-language film — and a compulsively faithful replica of his notorious 1997 German-language feature of the same title — subjects its viewers to a long spectacle of wanton and gratuitous brutality.
But the old Shakespeare thrills are there — Mark Antony's funeral oration inspires rattled awe — and are so rousing that some innovations, such as the spectacle of Caesar's statue being pulled down, Saddam-style, by a rope and a mob, seem almost gratuitous.
But the old Shakespeare thrills are there Mark Antony's funeral oration inspires rattled awe and are so rousing that some innovations, such as the spectacle of Caesar's statue being pulled down, Saddam-style, by a rope and a mob, seem almost gratuitous.
Note that gratuitous "lamely".
"They are not gratuitous.
