Sentence examples for gratuitous to from inspiring English sources

It is gratuitous to toss away that struggle.

12.46pm BST It seems gratuitous to work through the wrong in this song point by point.

Thus I don't think it was gratuitous to have that doctored picture of Savile in the mix.

The hatred she feels for her needy, overly solicitous tutor, Miss Gallagher, seems gratuitous, to say the least.

It is not gratuitous to mention that Eminem is white, by the way, because most of the performers depicted are too.

Capitalism allied with evolution has prompted a revolt - as Lewis Mumford pointed out decades ago - against the inhibitions of orthodox Christianity, which now seem gratuitous to many.

He insisted that the timing of the arms package and Mrs. Clinton's tough words were "not designed to send a gratuitous message to China, but to demonstrate the firmness of our position".

"Individuals are really turned off by graphic images and we don't need to show gratuitous violence to really show what is happening to species around the world," Mr. Macko said.

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.

If any of those guys had seen combat, I don't think we would have had this gratuitous decision to go to Iraq, which has cost us greatly.

In what amounts to a gratuitous insult to a man he once appointed as an editor, Murdoch tweeted: "Piers Morgan seems unemployed after failing to attract any audience in US.