Sentence examples for gratuitous terror from inspiring English sources

"It is in the fantasies of the infernal, as they literally haunt Western sensibility, that we find the technology of pain without meaning, of bestiality without end, of gratuitous terror".

MR James devised his stories in accordance with a series of self-written rules, which stipulated the evocation of "a pleasing terror" without gratuitous sex or bloodshed.

"Terror, terror, terror, terror, terror.

Gratuitous, too.

Or gratuitous?

Stark, gratuitous.

Note that gratuitous "lamely".

I hate gratuitous violence.

"They are not gratuitous.

It's just gratuitous.

But maybe not gratuitous.