Sentence examples for gratuitous talk from inspiring English sources

Such gratuitous talk tends to have the opposite effect.

Or for Holocaust survivors to hear all this gratuitous Nazi talk.

It is difficult to recall a major fight in recent years that wasn't garnished by some low-grade trash talk or gratuitous handbaggery.

Cue a quick scene in Gratuitous But Convenient Webcamland to talk to one of the bikini-clad web-cam operators.

I'm not talking about frivolous or gratuitous gestures here.

The rest of the show is all Tantaros laying claim to false zings and gratuitous insults to mask her inability to talk substantively about the auto bailout.

He is notoriously irascible; he was kept away from crucial talks with the Peronists after picking a gratuitous row with Mr Ruckauf.

"I'm not talking about Abner Louima, or the Rodney King case — gratuitous violence against people.

But after a few classes, I learned to divorce the material from its sexually gratuitous nature and I discovered that through pornography, you can pretty much talk about anything.

("Gratuitous and ugly," Winston Lord, Kissinger's former assistant, said, as Gay Talese reported recently in The Talk of the Town).

Gratuitous straight sex is a defining plot device in pretty much all media: primetime soaps, daytime talk shows, beer commercials, Billy Crystal movies.