Sentence examples for gratuitous the from inspiring English sources

At 10 by 20 feet, the size feels gratuitous, the composition slack and the descriptions of people perfunctory.

And although the final scene of the first act between Jimmy and Gallito feels sexually gratuitous, the opening act of the second scene reveals its true impact and meaning.

While some say that the region's rapid recovery vindicates that policy, others more plausibly argue that the rebound mainly suggests just how excessive the I.M.F.'s demands were and how gratuitous the crisis was in the first place.

It is fitting, then, that the book itself is obsessively detailed; Hoffman includes 33 pages of annotations, both gratuitous (the complete title of his honors thesis at Harvard) and fascinating (an alphabetical list, culled from the Internet, of notable chess players' deaths).

Since the Super Bowl incident, CBS' standards and practices department "is being maybe a little bit tougher, especially on things that we feel are gratuitous," the co-COO said.

I saw some of that and some of the gratuitous cruelty the kids at the top of the sports food chain can inflict on those below.

It would be antithetical to our mission as teachers to limit speech without addressing the difference between the gratuitous and the purposeful.

They are perhaps the more gratuitous given the unstudied truth of the performances Mr. Cromer draws from the entire cast.

This is made all the more gratuitous by the fact that Dominic Rowan's Henry is one of the production's outstanding strengths.

I find the research very interesting, but I do find, however, the final discussion of vaccine development a little gratuitous given the findings of the paper and perhaps an unnecessary appeal to the utility of basic research.

But somehow the more disproportionate and undeserved the anger is, the funnier it is; the gratuitous rants give the book an unpredictable, hectic pace.