The sex and violence is slightly less gratuitous this time around, Westeros's villains are beginning to get their comeuppance, and the women wronged last season are beginning to avenge themselves.
The Millennium trilogy was quite gratuitous at times".
There was a flowering of what one authority has termed luxury developments—"showy clothing, embroidered footgear, medicine-bundle purchases, elaborate rituals [culminating in the Sun Dance], [and especially] gratuitous and time-consuming warfare".
"Exhibition Device" is another gratuitous wink, this time to Michael Asher's 2008 installation at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, a reprise, in metal studs, of every temporary exhibition wall in the venue's 10-year existence.
He told me that criticism of his work was at times "gratuitous and petty," or powered by jealousy.
Honorarium is typically a one-time gratuitous payment made as a gesture of good will and in appreciation to speakers or participants in special Stanford events (e.g. symposia, lecture series, or professional conventions).
Clinton supporters in the blogosphere said they perceived it as a badly timed gratuitous slap at Mrs. Clinton as she grapples with the likely end of her quest for the presidency.
The first draft of the manuscript had to be redone, he says, after his wife went through it with a pen, writing "gratuitous hostility" many times in the margin.
Nor did the Times' gratuitous advice that India urgently renews a dialogue with Pakistan find much resonance within the secretary's official remit.
It is probably gratuitous to include the time full information.
And Ambler isn't one to waste time with gratuitous passages of description.
