Sentence examples for gratuitous that from inspiring English sources

It seems gratuitous that this should be a birch wood.

I explained to Palin that in my view, at least, this line of inquiry wasn't gratuitous — that questions did in fact linger about her "gravitas gap".

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.

Now Lazear informs us that sure enough, mismatch was cyclical, and has in fact come way down even though unemployment remains high: What all this tells us is that the vast suffering still going on is gratuitous — that we could end this quickly with appropriate monetary and fiscal policies.

"There is nothing gratuitous that I've ever seen with any of the orang-utans I've known.

It is essential to the challenge of evil that it frequently appears gratuitous, that there seems to be too much of it, that as far as we can see, it often goes unaddressed.[11] Anything less could not bring out the best in us.

I thought that there was something gratuitous about that.

I was definitely a bit surprised, because the movie isn't gratuitous in that way, you know what I mean?

[Thus, ironically, the] pending "harsh" fiscal contraction measures were not some gratuitous roadblock that had been erected by enemies or aliens; that is, arbitrary impediments to the American economy's divine right to permanent prosperity, even if borrowed.

I was always against cameras doing the work - those gratuitous movements that accentuate a dramatic moment - and Phil was with me on that.

I was being subjected to a form of gratuitous torture that had been engineered, no doubt, because some consultant calculated that X per cent of people will be dissuaded from even dealing with filing an insurance claim if you make it sufficiently unpleasant.